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Setting up a macro for Firefox
Figgy
Fighter of the night manChampion of the sunRegistered User regular
Fighter of the night manChampion of the sunRegistered User regular
Alright, here's the situation:
My girlfriend is a substitute teacher, and she relies on calls to find work. Basically, the automated system calls each teacher at random (or that's how they say it is) between 6pm-11pm for the next morning, or 6am-Noon for that same day.
If a full-time teacher needs a day off, they simply login to the website and set that day as off. The system will then call a substitute teacher at 6pm the night before to schedule. Here's the catch: Any time before 6pm that day, a substitute teacher can login to the website and accept jobs manually.
We've been keeping the site open and refreshing until a job pops up, and then accepting it. Problem is, you never know when a job will be posted and there aren't that many jobs that you can sit there for 10 minutes and refresh and always find one for the day.
I want to create some sort of macro that will simply hit the refresh button for me, every 5 seconds say, and then possibly make an audible alarm when a job pops up. Can macros do that? Detect a change in text in a specific portion of the screen?
I'm a complete newb as to how to create a macro and the limitations therein,.. can anyone school me?
Edit: Sorry, it's a Search button that needs to be pressed over and over, not the browser's refresh. The mouse can stay in the same place and keep hitting it no problem.. the button only moves 1/4" sometimes because sometimes it says "NO RECORDS FOUND" or it says nothing... both meaning there are no jobs in the search.
Also, if this could go onto a mac, that would be great.
My girlfriend is a substitute teacher, and she relies on calls to find work. Basically, the automated system calls each teacher at random (or that's how they say it is) between 6pm-11pm for the next morning, or 6am-Noon for that same day.
If a full-time teacher needs a day off, they simply login to the website and set that day as off. The system will then call a substitute teacher at 6pm the night before to schedule. Here's the catch: Any time before 6pm that day, a substitute teacher can login to the website and accept jobs manually.
We've been keeping the site open and refreshing until a job pops up, and then accepting it. Problem is, you never know when a job will be posted and there aren't that many jobs that you can sit there for 10 minutes and refresh and always find one for the day.
I want to create some sort of macro that will simply hit the refresh button for me, every 5 seconds say, and then possibly make an audible alarm when a job pops up. Can macros do that? Detect a change in text in a specific portion of the screen?
I'm a complete newb as to how to create a macro and the limitations therein,.. can anyone school me?
Edit: Sorry, it's a Search button that needs to be pressed over and over, not the browser's refresh. The mouse can stay in the same place and keep hitting it no problem.. the button only moves 1/4" sometimes because sometimes it says "NO RECORDS FOUND" or it says nothing... both meaning there are no jobs in the search.
Also, if this could go onto a mac, that would be great.
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