ie.au3 tutorial/direction needed

[nitekram]

Was hoping to get some answers from the >same topic, but it appears that one is close to being closed.

I am working with BMC Remedy (thin client) and have not gotten very far with trying to automate filling in fields, as I am unable to locate what type of field it is.

While trying to create a new incident, there is a Summary* field that I have tried to find out what it is, but am unable. I have tried form, table, and frame. I am about to give up and just use _SendEx() to do what I want, but thought I would try something new today. As of this time, I have put in about 5 hours trying to just find out how to get the name of a field.

When trying to show forms on page, I get 0 (Zero)
I get lots of tags/innerText, but only a couple with the word Summary in it:
 

Tagname: LABEL
innerText: Summary*
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Warning from function _IEFormGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_NoMatch
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormElementSetValue, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormElementGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_InvalidObjectType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormElementSetValue, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
Tagname: LABEL
innerText: Summary
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Warning from function _IEFormGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_NoMatch
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormElementSetValue, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormElementGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_InvalidObjectType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormElementSetValue, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType

I want to know how to find the name of the field, what type it is, and how to update it with _IEFormElementSetValue??? Any ideas?
 

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#include <IE.au3>
;LABELinnerText: Summary
$oIE = _IECreate("[url=""]XXX[/url]") ; unable to post URL as it is work related
#cs
 Local $oForms = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE)
 MsgBox(0, "Forms Info", "There are " & @extended & " forms on this page")
 For $oForm In $oForms
 MsgBox(0, "Form Info", $oForm.name)
 Next
 
 Local $oForms = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, "", -1)
 For $oForm In $oForms
 MsgBox(0, "Form Info", $oForms.name)
 Next
#ce
;#cs
Local $oElements = _IETagNameAllGetCollection($oIE)
If @error Then MsgBox('', [email="'@error'"]'@error'[/email], @error)
; WORKS and gets all Tags
For $oElement In $oElements
 If StringInStr($oElement.tagname, 'Summary') Or StringInStr($oElement.innerText, 'Summary') _
   And Not StringInStr($oElement.tagname, 'HTML') _
   And Not StringInStr($oElement.tagname, 'Body') _
   And StringInStr($oElement.tagname, 'Label') Then

  ConsoleWrite("Tagname: " & $oElement.tagname & @CR & "innerText: " & $oElement.innerText)
  ConsoleWrite(@CRLF & @CRLF)
  #cs
   Local $oInputs = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, $oElement.tagname)
   For $oInput In $oInputs
   ConsoleWrite("Form: " & $oInput.form.name & " Type: " & $oInput.type)
   ConsoleWrite(@CRLF & @CRLF)
   Next
  #ce
  ;
  $oQuery = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, $oElement.innerText)
  _IEFormElementSetValue($oQuery, "AutoIt IE.au3")
  $oQuery = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oIE, $oElement.tagname)
  _IEFormElementSetValue($oQuery, "AutoIt IE.au5")

  #cs
   Local $oInputs = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, $oElement.innerText, -1)
   For $oInput In $oInputs
   ConsoleWrite("Form: " & $oInput.form.name & " Type: " & $oInput.type)
   ConsoleWrite(@CRLF & @CRLF)
   Next
  #ce
 EndIf
Next
;#ce

Edited February 5, 2014 by nitekram

[nitekram]

Anyone have any ideas?

[DaleHohm]

Don't guess, use something like DebugBar (or another DOM inspector) to see what it is. If you use DebugBar, use the Drag Target onto the element you want to see it's source and use the "View Source" icon in the DebugBar toolbar to see if you have frames to navigate.

Dale

[nitekram]

@DaleHohm

I installed DebugBar on my home computer - running IE version 9.0.8112.16421 and every time I open Internet Explorer - I have a popup telling me that IE has stopped working and do I want to check online for a solution or close program - I click close program two times and then my home page shows, this is not going to work, if I am at work. Can you suggest another product? I am new to DOM inspectors!

I am going to uninstall and try again - maybe a different version of DebugBar?

EDIT

OK uninstalled 7.0.1 and installed 6.4 worked, now to see if I will be able to get it installed at work - thanks for your time and will let you know what I find

Edited March 14, 2013 by nitekram

[nitekram]

Sorry for bringing up an old thread, but wanted to know, if anyone knew of a hot key that will make debugbar work. I am working in Unicenter Service Desk and trying to find any info that would allow me to find the fields needed, so I do not have to TAB TAB Sleep() Paste, TAB - well you get the idea.

USD is a product of Computer Associates (probably bought it)

EDIT

when opening anything from the main window, you get a dumb version of IE, but not the tool bar, and I have tried F11 to get it to show and all that does is make the window full screen - maybe there is a hot key for tool bar

Edited February 5, 2014 by nitekram

[Palestinian]

For the hotkey you can try Alt + D

[JohnOne]

Debugbar is a pain in the arse and you have to pay for it.

Get your info from chrom browser where the feature is built in free, they're not different names in IE.

[nitekram]

I seem to not be able to use either Chrome or FF, as the tools that are offered off the landing page are not there. Plus on Chrome, when you open of a request, the display is all messed up.

I have found something of interest though, the hot key F12, seems to give a lot of information, but drilling down each level is a pain.

I will continue my search...if anyone has an idea - please do not be shy

[JohnOne]

Are you prepared to post the address?

[nitekram]

No one would able to see it - intranet

[nitekram]

So looking at the window via F12, I see a frame called cai_main, but I am unable to get anything, but ZEROs
 

Local $oFrame = _IEFrameGetObjByName ($oIE, "cai_main")
    If @error Then MsgBox('ERROR',@extended,'')

    Local $oFrames = _IEFrameGetCollection($oIE)
Local $iNumFrames = @extended


For $i = 0 To ($iNumFrames - 1)
    Local $oFrame = _IEFrameGetCollection($oIE, $i)
    MsgBox(0, "Frame Info", _IEPropertyGet($oFrame, "uniqueid"))
Next

I get the following errors in scite

--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Warning from function _IEFormGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_NoMatch
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormElementGetObjByName, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEFormElementSetValue, $_IEStatus_InvalidDataType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEPropertyGet, $_IEStatus_InvalidObjectType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEPropertyGet, $_IEStatus_InvalidObjectType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEPropertyGet, $_IEStatus_InvalidObjectType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEPropertyGet, $_IEStatus_InvalidObjectType
--> IE.au3 V2.4-0 Error from function _IEPropertyGet, $_IEStatus_InvalidObjectType
 

Is there something I am doing wrong...tried a few of the properties, the only one that retrieves anything other then zero is - "locationurl"

I want to get the names of the input boxes in the window so that I can paste directly into the fields. Does that make sense?

[nitekram]

Here I tried all of them with output:

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#include <IE.au3>
;$s_URL = 'http://ndcusdwu.de-wil.csc.com/CAisd/html/popup_frames.html?POPUP_URLIX=0'
;$o_IE = _IECreate($s_URL)
Global $aPropertiesBrowser[33] = ["addressbar", "browserx", "browsery", "busy", "contenteditable", "fullscreen", "height", "hwnd", "innerhtml", _
        "innertext", "isdisabled", "left", "locationname", "locationurl", "menubar", "offline", "outertext", "outerhtml", "readystate", _
        "referrer", "resizable", "screenx", "screeny", "silent", "statusbar", "statustext", "theatermode", "title", "toolbar", _
        "top", "visible", "width", "uniqueid"]
Global $aPropertiesClientInfo[14] = ["appcodename", "appminorversion", "appname", "appversion", "browserlanguage", "cookieenabled", _
        "cpuclass", "javaenabled", "online", "platform", "systemlanguage", "useragent", "userlanguage", "vcard"]

_USDtest()

Func _USDtest()

    Local $oIE = _IEAttach("Create New Request")
    If @error Then MsgBox('', 'ERROR', @error)

    Local $oFrame = _IEFrameGetObjByName($oIE, "cai_main")
    If @error Then MsgBox('ERROR', @extended, '')

    Local $oFrames = _IEFrameGetCollection($oIE)
    Local $iNumFrames = @extended

    For $i = 0 To ($iNumFrames - 1)
        Local $oFrame = _IEFrameGetCollection($oIE, $i)
        ConsoleWrite($oFrame & @CRLF)

        For $x = 0 To UBound($aPropertiesBrowser) - 1
            ConsoleWrite($aPropertiesBrowser[$x] & @CRLF)
            If $aPropertiesBrowser[$x] = "browserx" Or $aPropertiesBrowser[$x] = "browsery" Or $aPropertiesBrowser[$x] = "contenteditable" _
                    Or $aPropertiesBrowser[$x] = "isdisabled" Then
                ContinueLoop
            EndIf
            ConsoleWrite($aPropertiesBrowser[$x] & @CRLF & _IEPropertyGet($oFrame, $aPropertiesBrowser[$x]) & @CRLF)

        Next
        ConsoleWrite(@CRLF & @CRLF)
    Next

EndFunc   ;==>_USDtest

And attached is the output:

USD_Testing_web_output.txt

Edited February 7, 2014 by nitekram