Auto Login to Website doesn't submit the form

[jlindemann]

We're working in a Citrix environment and in order to provision out access to a website I need to pre-populate the username and password so not everyone logging in gets this information.

So far I've gotten it so that it launches IE, opens the website I need access to, it quickly populates the username and password....... and then the IE screen flashes\refreshes and I'm sitting at the same screen with the username populated. Password field is now blank.

It doesn't indicate that the user\pass is incorrect. (and trust me it would). It's almost as if the screen does a refresh. But I don't know why. Any thoughts?

I even thought that it was refreshing due to some sort of IE loading thing. So I copied the block of code to populate and submit the form, and I watched as the IE browser flashes\refreshes twice in a row and still doesn't log me in. Did I do something wrong in the submitting of the form?

(and yes there is a splash screen that must load prior to the launch, which is what you see at the top of the code)

;
; AutoIt Version: 3.0
; Language:       English
; Platform:       WinVista/Win7
; Author:         Josh
;
; Script Function: 3000xtra auto-login



#include <IE.au3>

$image = "C:\SplashScreen\CGALogo2.jpg"

SplashImageOn("Splash Screen", $image, 524, 350, -1, -1, 1)
Sleep(5000)
SplashOff()


$user = "email@email.com"    ;<<< Change username
$pass = "******"        ;<<< Change password
$url = "https://portal.hpd.global.reuters.com/auth/login.aspx" ;<<< Change webpage link
$oIE = _IECreate ($url)
_IELoadWait ($oIE)

$uForm = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "_form")   ;<<< Change to form html name on webpage
$uText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($uForm, "_layout$_main$_mainControl$_usernameTextBox")   ;<<< Change to input name of username field box within form on webpage
_IEFormElementSetValue ($uText,$user)

$pText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($uForm, "_layout$_main$_mainControl$_passwordTextBox")  ;<<<Change to input name of password field box within form on webpage
_IEFormElementSetValue ($pText,$pass)
_IEFormSubmit ($uForm)

[PsaltyDS]

If you comment out the _IEFormSubmit() at the end does it properly set the username/password, and work correctly if you manually click OK after that?

By looking at the form inputs with a DOM inspector you might find some onEvent scripts (i.e. "onkeypress") attached to them that your automation doesn't trigger.

[jlindemann]

If you comment out the _IEFormSubmit() at the end does it properly set the username/password, and work correctly if you manually click OK after that?

By looking at the form inputs with a DOM inspector you might find some onEvent scripts (i.e. "onkeypress") attached to them that your automation doesn't trigger.

Thanks for the suggestion Psalty. If I modify the code to take out the IEFormSubmit function, everything else works to that point and I can click ok\submit and get into the software. So for the moment that's a good work around.

Can anyone do me a favor and look at the source code of https://portal.hpd.global.reuters.com/auth/login.aspx and let me know if there's something I missed on the form submit side of things? I'd still really like to have it just jump right into the app as this way the username isn't seen either. But at least this is a good temporary solution.

[PsaltyDS]

Look at Example No.2 under _IEAction(). Get the object reference to the button, set focus to it with _IEAction(), then ControlSend() an "{ENTER}" to it.