Help needed on IE automation

[Syed23]

Hi Friends,

Today i came with new idea for automating our environment to make my team members manual job easy. The idea is we have an internal IE site where we will be having N no of labes parallaly all the labels will have their own Text box. my goal is i have read the content from that text box... since i have never came across of IE autmoation no idea or on how to do or what function available for it... is there anyone can help me on this? Please!

[somdcomputerguy]

There is example code included.

IE user defined functions Reference

[Syed23]

Thanks for the reply Bruce. i am trying to read the data from the text box.i have taken one example from the UDF and tried but it's not working. i know i am doing something wrong. can you guys correct me where i am doing wrong?

Edite: I tried to attach the screen shot but i was unable to do

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate("mysiteURL",0,1,1,1)
$oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "ChangeNumber :")
$oText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oForm, "PackageNumber:")
$IEAu3Version = _IE_VersionInfo ()
_IEFormElementSetValue ($oText, $IEAu3Version[5])
MsgBox(0, "Form Element Value", _IEFormElementGetValue ($oText))

Edited November 24, 2011 by Syed23

[Syed23]

Do we have any specific function to open IE URl like this ? http://www.testurl/PackageInfo.aspx?num=1234 this how my url will be look like. i want to open this URL and i have to get information of the text box. why i was not able to do with above code ?

Edited November 24, 2011 by Syed23

[Exit]

Do we have any specific function to open IE URl like this ? http://www.testurl/PackageInfo.aspx?num=1234 this how my url will be look like. i want to open this URL and i have to get information of the text box. why i was not able to do with above code ?

http://www.testurl does not exist. Please specify correct URL.

[Syed23]

sorry forumer100. that is a internal website we are not suppose to provide and also you can't be able to access from outside of our domain! is there any other way you can help me ?

[PsaltyDS]

Do we have any specific function to open IE URl like this ? http://www.testurl/PackageInfo.aspx?num=1234 this how my url will be look like. i want to open this URL and i have to get information of the text box. why i was not able to do with above code ?

The URL is clearly obfuscated, but all it takes is _IECreate() if it was valid:

$sURL = "http://www.testurl/PackageInfo.aspx?num=1234"
$oIE = _IECreate($sURL)

You'll have to be more specific about this "text box" for more help. Is it an HTML input field, or does the page call a Flash object, is it inside of a frame or frame set, etc.? You could examine the page with a DOM inspector like DebugBar to see. If the "text box" is a pop up dialog of some kind, check it out with AU3Info.exe to see if it is an IE window or regular Windows dialog.

[Syed23]

Thanks PsaltyDs for the suggestion.... it is a HTML input field... do you have any suggestion for me ?

Edited November 26, 2011 by Syed23

[PsaltyDS]

Thanks PsaltyDs for the suggestion.... it is a HTML input field... do you have any suggestion for me ?

Examine the page with a DOM inspector (I believe DebugBar was mentioned already) to see what kind of objects that input is a child of, and what identifiers it has (name or id). It could be as simple as setting the value with one of the _IE* functions, or it might take drilling down into Frames and Forms. Depends on the structure of that page.

[Syed23]

Sorry for the delay reply PsaltyDS! i was on official trip to new region for new project.... what is that DOM inspector? where can i download it? sorry for not knowing about that debugger tool.... could you please tell me about that?

Edited December 21, 2011 by Syed23

[Eemuli]

Sorry for the delay reply PsaltyDS! i was on official trip to new region for new project.... what is that DOM inspector? where can i download it? sorry for not knowing about that debugger tool.... could you please tell me about that?

DOM inspector = a tool you can use to view webpage html layout, all attributes and attached events etc.

You may already have one:

Internet Explorer (8 & 9) => press F12

Google Chrome => ctrl + shift + i

Mozilla Firefox => Addon called Firebug (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/?src=search)