I am using the "Web - Click and Script" protocol.
I do have a mentor but he is very busy and I am only getting bits of his time so left mostly to myself. The documentation is only semi-useful. He was the one who suggested I capture the page but as XML then use xpath to locate the controls I was interested in (e.g. a specific checkbox) and then use an api to apply the check. He saw no other way to do it since there were not always id's to use to go straight to specific controls.