Need some scripting assistance

[acidbat]

Hi everyone,I need some help with forms using IE.The form I am working has lots of fields with values I can select from.Good news is that I managed to script just about all of them except for 1.The troublesome one is a "Date of Birth" field and the source code looks like this:

<div class="corp-form-part"><div id="" style="" class="corp-form-item"><label>Birth Date<span class="mandatory">*</span></label><input type="text" name="subject.birthDate" value="" id="subject.birthDate" class="corp-calendar "></div>

My script looks like this:

$dob = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oform1, "subject.birthDate")
_IEFormElementSetValue($dob, "12121966")

But when I execute my script nothing happens and there is no error in my Scite Console either.

I used _IEFormElementGetObjByName & _IEFormElementSetValue for all my other fields without any issues but for this DOB it just wont enter anything.

Any help would be grealty appriciated.

Cheers

Edited September 1, 2011 by acidbat

[acidbat]

appologies for the format

[czardas]

Hmm, I'm guessing a little here. Have you checked that the html the same for all fields, or is there something different about the DOB?

Edited August 31, 2011 by czardas

[acidbat]

The difference is that most of the fields are a dropdown list with values and some are a free text field (you can type anything you want).

The DOB has the option to enter text or you can click on the calendar icon on the side to specify the date you want from there.

Hope that makes sense?

[czardas]

I'm out of my depth a bit here, because I haven't done this before. Do you get @error = 0 after getting the object name?

$dob = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "subject.birthDate")
msgbox(0, "Error Code", @error)

Argh the new forum software keeps messing up the code.

Edited August 31, 2011 by czardas

[acidbat]

From memory yes, but I will confirm the exact return message from Scite tomorrow.

[czardas]

Well that's the first check I would run. If the error value is not zero then the input isn't recognized. I'm not sure how to solve that, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.

[acidbat]

I ran the code you mentioned above and the messagebox returned 0.

[czardas]

Looking at you code again, I was presuming that the two statements are on two separate lines, since it would not work for the other cases if you had made that mistake.

$dob = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "subject.birthDate")
_IEFormElementSetValue($dob, "12121966")

Due to a recent forum upgrade there have been some problems with code boxes. Perhaps the second statement is not working properly. Test it using the same msgbox. If that fails, it will be hard to advise you without seeing the actual webpage (so we can run our own tests) or at least more of your code.

[acidbat]

Looking at you code again, I was presuming that the two statements are on two separate lines, since it would not work for the other cases if you had made that mistake.

$dob = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "subject.birthDate")
_IEFormElementSetValue($dob, "12121966")

Due to a recent forum upgrade there have been some problems with code boxes. Perhaps the second statement is not working properly. Test it using the same msgbox. If that fails, it will be hard to advise you without seeing the actual webpage (so we can run our own tests) or at least more of your code.

Yes, the statements are on two seperate lines

I ran the msgbox again (hoping I did this correct) with the following syntax:

$dob = _IEFormElementSetValue($dob, "12121966")
msgbox(0, "Error Code", @error)

Which returned 0

The site is an internal site.

I'll try and paste more snippets of my code:

$oForm1 = _IEFormGetObjByName ($oIE, "checkSubmitForm")
$office = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "officeCode")
$ctype = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "type")
$catg = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "category")
$purp = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "purpose")
$primaryN = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "subject.names(1000).type")
$famname = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "subject.names(1000).familyName")
$givenname = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "subject.names(1000).firstGivenName")
$dob = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "subject.birthDate") <-- No errors
$gender = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "subject.gender")
$country1 = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "subject.birthPlace.country")
$addrtype1 = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "subject.addresses(1000).type")
$addrtype2 = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "subject.addresses(1000).line")
$country2 = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "subject.addresses(1000).country")
$notes = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oform1, "note")
 
; Set field values in the form
_IEFormElementSetValue($office, "FF")
_IEFormElementSetValue($ctype, "INDIV")
_IEFormElementSetValue($catg, "IMMI")
_IEFormElementSetValue($purp, "Automation Test")
_IEFormElementSetValue($primaryN, "PRIM")
_IEFormElementSetValue($famname, "test")
_IEFormElementSetValue($givenname, "test")
_IEFormElementSetValue($dob, "12121966") <-- Not typing
_IEFormElementSetValue($gender, "M")

As said before, everything works except for the DOB,

I can email you the screenshot and\or part of the HTML code if this internal site if you like?

Edited September 1, 2011 by acidbat

[czardas]

I don't understand why it isn't working. It seems strange that there are no errors, yet it isn't filling in the field. Perhaps you can interact with the actual calendar and click the date. It might be a bit complicated to set up the webpage using the html. I'm going to be a bit busy over the next few days, but you can always try emailing me. I can't promise anything but if you send the html, send it either as text or in a zip file.

Edited September 22, 2011 by czardas

[acidbat]

Noticed now that the DOB field also has a button on the side which brings up a calendar when clicked.

Appears to be a DHTML (Dynamic HTML with some Ajax code).

Not sure if that helps or not, but i'll keep investigating the issue.

[JohnOne]

Seems like an odd format to enter a DOB, have you tried other ways such as "12/12/1966" etc...

[acidbat]

Seems like an odd format to enter a DOB, have you tried other ways such as "12/12/1966" etc...

Yup, tried that too - even 12\12\1966 just to see but nothing is hitting the DOB field (as in, no text is entered - it remains untouched)

[acidbat]

Just for kicks I added this in my script:

for $i = 0 to 10000
_IEFormElementSetValue($dob, "12/12/1960")
Next

Just thinking, maybe the script is running too fast? But it still runs and attempts to add a value there 10000 times without luck.

Edited September 1, 2011 by acidbat

[JohnOne]

I see the name and id are the same, I dont know how significant that if but try

_IEGetObjById instead of by name

[acidbat]

I see the name and id are the same, I dont know how significant that if but try

_IEGetObjById instead of by name

I tried that too (being super excited) but same behaviour there too.

$dob = _IEGetObjById ($oform1, "subject.birthDate")
_IEFormElementSetValue($dob, "12/12/1960")

[acidbat]

Alright I am little closer now.

With this code I had before:

$dob = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oform1, "subject.birthDate")
_IEFormElementSetValue($dob, "12/12/1960")

It does write the 12/12/1960 value in the calendar (and not the text field.....)

I discovered that when I ran this code:

_IEImgClick ($oform1, "cal.gif", "src")

It pops up the calendar window and I can see that the values are there.

However, next problem I have now is to close the window (if I confirm with the Enter key it will close), but if I try and send("{ENTER}") it does not actually do anything.

So my next issue is to close the window by confirming with the enter key or..

Find out why it sticks the value in the calendar and not on the text field next to it...

Any ideas?

[acidbat]

Hmmm not sure what has happened but now it works.

No code has been changed remains as this:

$dob = _IEFormElementGetObjByName ($oform1, "subject.birthDate")
_IEFormElementSetValue($dob, "12/12/1960")

What wasn't working is now working.......weird

Edited September 2, 2011 by acidbat

[selvan27]

sir, i am an new baby

what wrong with this script

WinActivate("[CLASS:Notepad]", "")

WinMenuSelectItem("[CLASS:Notepad] ", "", "&File", "Page Set&up..." )

the script did not work , it did not launch page setup from note pad

please help me to solve this problem, thankyou