Anchor String User Defined Fields

Anchor strings allow you to define a field based on the location of a certain word or character in the screen. For example, if you know that the word "Choice:" appears on a screen, you can define a field based on the location of Choice.

When defining anchor strings, you can specify anchor string from top, or anchor string from bottom. Choose top if you want to start searching for occurrences from the top of the string; choose bottom if you want to start searching for occurrences from the bottom of the screen.

Use anchor string when you can't predict the contents of a screen, such as tabular data of undetermined length, or when you can't predict the number of protected or unprotected screen fields. In short, anchor string provides an alternative method when other methods are not reliable.

Example: Occurance = 1, Text = Choice:, Row offset = 0, Column offset = 9