Avoiding Qualty Center Session Timeouts

[BassPlayer]

I'm forced to use QC where I work and on top of that there are not many licenses so the QC admin in his esteemed wisdom has set a short session timeout. Does anyone know how I can use autoit to periodically wake up and select some object in QC so my session never times out so I can get back to work instead of logging in all the time?

Thanks in advance.

[exodius]

For the benefit of those of us who don't know how this program works, is it a thick-client? (ie installed program) Is it a web-application? How do you normally keep it active? If it's a web application have you tried automating it with the _IE* functions?

More details in your initial post will help get a suggestion quicker, and keep me from rescuing you from the bottom of the 2nd page.

[BassPlayer]

Thanks for your response

As far as I can tell Quality center browser based app but several things are installed locally.

Here is what is looks like

https://h10078.www1.hp.com/bto/us/en/img/pic_652_Quality-Center.jpg

https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=bto&cp=1-11-127-24^40625_4000_100__

If I script something simple like pressing the refresh button it logs me out so I need to be able to click some object inside the app.

Is there someplace that has examples on the _IE functions?

[Bert]

I understand what you need to do. Here are a few suggestions:

1 - Does the app have any hotkeys you can use?

2 - I believe the app is web based. Saying that, what browser do you use for day to day work?