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Discovery documentation

Record all your on-screen actions into a DOC/DOCX document with the screenshots and annotations. Such document could contain installation and configuration instructions and the like.

Important

To take screenshots of an application, launched with the elevated permissions, launch Docu Generator also with the elevated permissions (i.e. Run as Administrator).

1. Launch Docu Generator.

   Note

   To launch Docu Generator by shortcut with the elevated permissions, press Shift and select Run as administrator from the context menu.

   

2. Click Record scenario to start taking series of screenshots.

   

3. To review or update Docu Generator hot keys, used for taking snapshots, click Hot Keys.

   By default, Shift + Left mouse click is used to take a screenshot of an active window or screen area; Ctrl + Shift + PrintScreen to select a screen area to grab.

   

4. Now, peform actions that you need to record and save to document. Using the Docu Generator hot keys run some app, go through dialogs selecting the necessary options and entering values.

   A preview of every taken screenshot appears in the Recording window.

   

5. For every taken screenshot you can Add annotation or Remove the unnecessary ones.

   

6. To compete recording click Stop.

   

7. Select the document format, saving options and click Save to create document.

   

Note

The created DSCN file in the output folder is the Docu Generator project that lets you return to your scenario later.

Document saving options

Option	Description
Save user actions	Add names of controls (which were clicked on), captured windows and dialog boxes.
Show mouse position	Add mouse pointer position and highlights it with a red circle on screenshots.
Show started application info	Add paths and command line arguments of the run apps.
Show contents of edited fields	Add content of input fields of the captured windows and dialog boxes.
Template	Specify a Microsoft Word (DOT/DOTX) or HTML/MHT file that will be used as a template for the output documents. The template must contain the textual placeholder [SCR] that defines a position where table with screenshots and comments will be placed. If you specify placeholder [SCR] in the existing table, screenshot and comments will be placed starting from the cell of placeholder. If placeholder [SCR] could not be found in the template, the table with screenshots and comments will be placed in the end of the document.

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