2.4 Capture Screen History

Screen History creates recordings of IBM 3270 and 5250 host screens as you navigate to them.

2.4.1 Capture Screen History

Screen History creates recordings of IBM 3270 and 5250 host screens as you navigate to them. VT screens can be recorded using manual capture. You can view and/or verify the information from those screens, and send multiple host screens to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook (Email Message and Note only), if they are installed on your computer.

NOTE:Only text areas of the host screen are included in the recorded image; host graphics images are not included.

To view past screens

  2. Click a screen thumbnail.

    The screen snapshot appears in the main window.

The following commands are also available from the toolbar in the Screen History task pane:

Click

To do this

Save the contents of the Screen History task pane as a file (.RSHX). When you close your session, your screen history is not maintained unless you save it to a separate file.

To reopen the file later, it must be saved in a trusted location.

Open a previously saved Screen History file.

Copy the selected screen to the Clipboard as text or a bitmap image.

Open the Office Tools dialog box to send one or more host screens from your screen history to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Outlook (Email Message and Note only), if they are installed on your computer.

Create a manual screen capture within the Screen History task pane. (This is helpful for when you want to capture any text you've entered before you leave the screen.)

Return to the currently active host screen.

Show the most recent screens at the top of the task pane. Click again to revert to the original order.

Clear all of the contents at once.

Put the task pane into auto-hide mode. This collapses the task pane against the side of the application frame. (To re-open the task pane, mouse over the side of the frame.)

2.4.2 Capture Screens Manually

There are two reasons you might want to capture a screen manually: you disabled screen history recording in the Configure Screen History dialog box, but need to capture a screen; or you modified one or more unprotected fields in a screen, and want to capture the screen with the modifications.

NOTE:Only text areas of the host screen are included in the recorded image; host graphics images are not included.

To capture a screen manually

  • From the Screen History task pane, click the Manual Capture toolbar button.

    The current screen, including any data you have entered, is captured and included in your Screen History list.

2.4.3 Navigate Screen History From the Ribbon

You can navigate Screen History Screen History creates recordings of IBM 3270 and 5250 host screens as you navigate to them. VT screens can be recorded using manual capture. You can view and/or verify the information from those screens, and send multiple host screens to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook (Email Message and Note only), if they are installed on your computer. one screen at a time in the main Reflection window directly from the Session ribbon without opening the Screen History gallery or task pane.

NOTE:Only text areas of the host screen are included in the recorded image; host graphics images are not included.

To navigate screen history

  • Do one of the following:

    On the Session ribbon, click

    To navigate

    The Back button

    Among captured screens.

    The Forward button

    Forward one screen at a time (if you navigated back, away from the current live screen).

    The Live Screen button

    Directly back to the current, live screen.

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