Continuous capture enables application developers to remotely capture a set of Web pages that are connected (or related) to each other, and define how to extract and display the content from the various pages. You can navigate through this set of pages using embedded hyperlinks, can preserve the original Web site's page structure, and can redefine how to present the captured pages. Continuous capture allows you more control over content and presentation of captured Web sites. For example, you can extract tabular data and present it in a structured, grid-oriented layout, and build drill-down mobile applications. This allows you to create mobile applications that use click-across functionality more effectively, and also build mobile applications that can then be captured as a whole and delivered to a mobile device. The following procedures demonstrate how to use continuous capture.
To define a continuous capture page from the Web Capture Element Definition wizard:
After selecting a Web source to capture, click Next. The Continuous Capture window displays. Click Add.
The Web content of the Web capture that you defined as the initial page displays. With Format set to One Click, click the link for which you want to establish continuous capture, then click Next. The profile for the selected link displays. This page enables you to select a desired feature on the captured page.
When the page reloads, move your mouse over the area to be captured and click the mouse (a flag follows the cursor with abbreviated instructions). The screen refreshes showing various presentation styles.
Choose Select to the left of the style to be captured and then click Next.
When adding additional elements, if you select the same element for capture with a different style, the Continuous Capture window displays, this time showing the Continuous Capture definition. The window shows the capture level, and the URL and corresponding Content Capture Language (CCL) used to extract the requested feature.
Define another continuous capture window using the same steps.
If you have multiple capture levels defined, you can click Generate URL Pattern at the bottom of the window. The URLs are replaced with a single generalized URL, as are the CCLs.
The URL has been turned into a "regular expression" that matches on all customers and site IDs.
Click Finish to return to Sybase WorkSpace or Next to define rules for this element.
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