Placer, a companion function to Selector

Feature Ideas
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I love this app, and it has me thinking out of the box. However, I wonder if it could benefit from a companion function to Selector. Instead of taking information from a webpage’s text field, Placer would I insert text into it. Judging by the speed of Selector, and in comparison with Autopilot, the new function could be a lot faster when populating several text fields. It’d even improve the formatting of forms, which would be a lot cleaner without the need to use multiple Keystroke functions to navigate between text fields. Furthermore, it may solve the issue of emulated keystrokes: not being able to select all or copy text.

I hope my thoughts offer inspiration.

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Hi @Anon_Brown , thanks for the nice follow up to your previous post, and for explaining your use cases clearly.

Is the following snippet aligned with your request:

Insert text into current textbox
{placefocus: selector=.textbox}
Insert text into newly focused textbox

Here, {placefocus} will take your selector and give focus to the first element matching this selector. Then, further insertion will resume from this focused element.

cc: @Brad_Hedinger you also requested this feature for Salesforce, in one of our calls. Any comments on this?

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This is exactly the sort of solution I was thinking about. So, is this something that's already in development?

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Not yet, but I have noted your request. Is your website - where you need this "placer" functionality - publicly available so that I can also test there?

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Unfortunately, it's not publicly accessible. However, it uses the BMC FootPrints platform.

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Also interested. My primary case use is filling out forms on webpages that don't respond to tabbing through to select the fields.

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This is a brilliant idea and exactly what I've been looking for so voted up. Nice to see another BMC user here as well :slightly_smiling_face:

I don't use footprints but BMC Helix (which does have a trial version)

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I would also benefit from this, provided it works for my use case, because using shift-tab 5 times in a row is very slow (compared to how fast TextBlaze is in general :blush:).

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Hi folks! This feature is now available in the beta version of our extension. If you're interested in trying it out, please email me at gaurang@blaze.today and I can set up the access for you.

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Thank you so much for this work Gaurang! :smile:

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@Gaurang_Tandon . If I am understanding this correctly, this would/could take the place of tab commands that need to be used to travel from one field to another field. You know this is a big deal in Salesforce. Am I understanding this correctly?

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Hi Brad, yes, you are understanding this correctly :slightly_smiling_face: I haven't tested this feature explicitly in Salesforce - so if you face any bugs, please do email me haha.

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This is a big feature for me as well maily for form filings. (I had to use TAB function 35 times just to reach to the point where I wanted to put text first.

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This feature is now available in the browser extension for all our users

As an example, your solution snippet would look like this:

Insert text into current textbox
{click: selector=.textbox}
Insert text into newly focused textbox

I hope it works for you. Feel free to let us know if you face any bugs.