auto select radio buttons

[jevbrowser]

I'm a newbie.  It will be apparent shortly  .  I have read the help files and seen several tutorials.  My goal is to write a script to automate the selection of particular radio buttons on a particular webpage.  I think i can write the script ok if i can get the correct info from the Window Info tool.  The problem i am having is that when i move my cursor (or the crosshairs) across the desired webpage, the ONLY thing that changes on the CONTROL tab or the MOUSE tab is the ControlClick Coords or the Position.  I believe that what I need to write my script is the Title and the Class info.  But that info never changes as i move the cursor.  I know that the window title info applies to the entire window (webpage) i am viewing, but don't i need to drill further and get info on the specific radio buttons on that particular webpage that i wish to identify and hence auto-select for my script?

Not sure how far off base i am with this, but i have spent considerable time on this.  Not looking for a free-ride here, but i just need a little jumpstart to help me understand.

Thanks for any help you could provide.

(note:  i have successfully written an AHK script that works fine using the coordinates and mouse clicks, etc.....  it works great.  The problem is that this particular website keeps changing - from day to day - the info (content) on the page, hence the coordinates change and it messes up my script.  Instead of using fixed coordinates to mouseclick the radio buttons, i want to use the correct Controls to identify and select the radio buttons)

Jev

[BrewManNH]

Use the _IE* functions to automate the webpage.

[jevbrowser]

Not sure abut how to use the _IE functions.  Still learning.  Can you help me out a little please?

thanks,

Jev

[Queener]

maybe if you give us an example of the website link then we can help you from there. Myself still have difficulty on automating, but won't hurt to try something new.

[jevbrowser]

Thanks queen!  Check this:  https://www.sewp.nasa.gov/vendor/       What i am trying to do is to automate my login, and then a click a few more buttons after logging in.  First i need to add my company name from the dropdown under VENDOR ID.  Then type in my user ID, then password.  Then click login, etc...  After that, a few more clicks.  Obviously, trying to automate that whole process.  As i said in my post, i have written an AHK script to do all of the above.  But the website content keeps CHANGING daily so that the x and y mouse coordinates become useless.  I need a better way to automate it.  That may very well be the use of the _IE functions, but i am not skilled with those yet.

Thanks for trying to help!

Jev

[mikell]

This works for me

#include <IE.au3>

Local $oIE = _IECreate("https://www.sewp.nasa.gov/vendor/")
Sleep(1000)
$oSelect = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "vendor_list")
$oSelect.Focus()
$oSelect.options.value = "14"   ;<<< choose in the html source the one you want
$oSelect.fireEvent("onChange")
$oInputs = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "input")
For $oInput In $oInputs
    If $oInput.name == "uid" Then $oInput.innertext = "jevbrowser"  
    If $oInput.name == "pwd" Then $oInput.innertext = "1234"  
    If $oInput.type == "submit" Then $oSubmit = $oInput
Next
$oSubmit.Focus()
$oSubmit.Click()

But obviously I can't do more as I get a "access denied" message 

Edit : correction input names

Edited January 3, 2014 by mikell

[jevbrowser]

Mikell,

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!  What a huge help!!!!  I have one more question:  I need to select a button after i log in but i don't know what command to add to the script file.  i can show you in an attachment.  is there a way i could get an attachment to you?

thanks,

Jev

[mikell]

Usually after a login you get into a new page

If the button is on such a page just copy the corresponding source code and post it as text

[jevbrowser]

here is what the source code looks like after i login:

function old_build_vendor_menu(){

  /* used on all Vendor Only web pages */

  //alert("start function old_build_vendor_menu");

  var myMenu = '<FORM ID="MENU" NAME="MENU" METHOD="post">n';

  myMenu += '<TABLE BORDER="0" ALIGN="center" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" CLASS="table_font" NOWRAP>n';

  //--------------- first row ----------------

  myMenu += '<TR ALIGN="center" NOWRAP>n';

  myMenu += '<TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="middle" NOWRAP CLASS="CHOP_header_text_graphic">n';

   myMenu += '      <INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="vendor_home" VALUE="CHOP Home" CLASS="button" onClick="document.MENU.action = ';

   myMenu += "'https://"+document.domain+"/cgi-bin/log_in.pl'";

   myMenu += '; document.MENU.ACTION.value = '+"'HOME'"+'; return isVendorId('+"'MENU'"+');">n';

  myMenu += '    <IMG SRC="/images/1pixel.gif" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="1">n';

   myMenu += '      <INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="clin_check" VALUE="CLIN Checker" CLASS="button" onClick="OpenInNewWin(';

   myMenu += "'https://"+document.domain+"/cgi-bin/clin_checker.pl'";

   myMenu += ', '525', '850');">n';

  myMenu += '    <IMG SRC="/images/1pixel.gif" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="1">n';

   myMenu += '      <INPUT TYPE="button" ID="clin_list_menu" NAME="clin_list_menu" VALUE="CLIN List" CLASS="button" onClick="document.MENU.action=';

   myMenu += "'https://"+document.domain+"/sewp/jsp/ViewClinList.action'";

   myMenu += '; document.MENU.ACTION.value = ';

   myMenu += "' '";

etc...........................

 

i want to click on the "CLIN List" button.  So which part of the source code would i add to my script to do that?

 

jev

[mikell]

Try to add this to the previous code

While $oIE.busy   ; add this to wait for complete loading of the new page
  Sleep(100)
Wend

$oButton = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "clin_list_menu")
$oButton.Focus()
$oButton.Click()

[jevbrowser]

wow Mikell!  worked great.  i am only missing ONE last piece here.  I can't find the correct source code to click on the hyperlink that will create the Tab Delimited download for me.  Here is the source code:

   <td colspan="2"><div align="right"><input type="submit" id="viewClinListForm_FindClins" name="action:FindClins" value="Search"/>

</div></td>

</tr>

 

</table>

 

 

 

 

<div id="exportlink">

Click To Download All CLINs For The Selected Manufacturer In

 

 

 

 

<a href='/sewp/jsp/ExportClins.action?format=csv&amp;selectedManufacturer=All'><span class="export csv"> CSV </span></a>

Format or as a

 

 

 

 

<a href='/sewp/jsp/ExportClins.action?format=tab&amp;selectedManufacturer=All'><span class="export csv"> Tab Delimited </span></a>

File

</div>

 

 

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<span class="pagelinks">

 

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The last good part of my script includes the first line of this above code which is the "action:FindClins"

After my script gets thru that section, the screen has a hyperlink that says:  "Tab Delimited".  Can you help me with this last line for the script file that will invoke that Tab Delimited command?

 

thanks,

Jev

[mikell]

This looks like a link to click, so

_IELinkClickByText($oIE, " Tab Delimited ")

should work

To try with/without the leading & trailing white spaces in " Tab Delimited "

[jevbrowser]

Mikell,

i get the following syntax error WITH or WITHOUT the white space:

"L:downloadsutilitiesAutoIT V3 updatedmy scripts_IEFormSubmit_NASA_V2.au3"(33,41) : error: syntax error

_IELinkClickByText($oIE, "Tab Delimited"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

L:downloadsutilitiesAutoIT V3 updatedmy scripts_IEFormSubmit_NASA_V2.au3 - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

>Exit code: 2    Time: 0.061

 

What do you think it could be?

 

thanks,

Jev

[mikell]

Strange... you didn't forgot the trailing parenthese ?

So lets try to get around the problem

$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection($oIE)
For $oLink In $oLinks
    If StringInStr($oLink.innertext, "Delimited") Then $oLink.Click()
Next

[jevbrowser]

yes, i DID forget the trailing paren, but i fixed it and i don't get the syntax error anymore, but the last command we are working on to click on the Tab Delimited link is still not working.  The script just finishes with its last command being this apparently:

$oButton = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "action:FindClins")

$oButton.Focus()

$oButton.Click()

 

Here is the entire script so far:

 

#include <IE.au3>

 

Local $oIE = _IECreate("https://www.sewp.nasa.gov/vendor/")

Sleep(1000)

$oSelect = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "vendor_list")

$oSelect.Focus()

$oSelect.options.value = "14"   ;<<< choose in the html source the one you want

$oSelect.fireEvent("onChange")

$oInputs = _IETagNameGetCollection($oIE, "input")

For $oInput In $oInputs

    If $oInput.name == "uid" Then $oInput.innertext = "username"

    If $oInput.name == "pwd" Then $oInput.innertext = "password!"

    If $oInput.type == "submit" Then $oSubmit = $oInput

Next

$oSubmit.Focus()

$oSubmit.Click()

While $oIE.busy   ; add this to wait for complete loading of the new page

  Sleep(1000)

Wend

 

$oButton = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "clin_list_menu")

$oButton.Focus()

$oButton.Click()

Sleep (20000)

$oSelect = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "selectedManufacturer")

$oSelect.Focus()

$oSelect.options.value = "All"

Sleep (10000)

$oButton = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "action:FindClins")

$oButton.Focus()

$oButton.Click()

Sleep (5000)

$oLinks = _IELinkGetCollection($oIE)

For $oLink In $oLinks

    If StringInStr($oLink.innertext, "Delimited") Then $oLink.Click()

Next

 

But as i said, the script just finishes but never activates that "Tab Delimited" hyperlink.

thanks,

Jev

[mikell]

Maybe there's just a missing focusing

For $oLink In $oLinks
    If StringInStr($oLink.innertext, "Delimited") Then 
        $oLink.Focus()
        $oLink.Click()
        Exitloop
    EndIf
Next

Do the previous instructions work correctly ? Is there a new page loading after the "action:FindClins" click ? If so you can try

_IELoadWait($oIE)

just before the Tab thing

and please, use the "code" tag when you post html or autoit code otherwise the moderators will grow dark

[jdelaney]

Using my signature:

$xpathLinks = "//span[@class='export csv' and contains(.,'Delimited')]"
$aMatchingLinks = BGe_IEGetDOMObjByXPathWithAttributes($oIE,$xpathLinks)
ConsoleWrite("Matching Links=[" & UBound($aMatchingLinks) & "]" & @CRLF)
For $i = 0 To UBound($aMatchingLinks)-1
    _IEAction($aMatchingLinks[$i],"focus")
    _IEAction($aMatchingLinks[$i],"click")
Next

If the consolewrite is "Matching Links=[0]", then the link is probably within a Frame.

Edited January 3, 2014 by jdelaney

[jevbrowser]

Mikell,

Here is what i have now for the last 2 commands:

$oButton = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "action:FindClins")
$oButton.Focus()
$oButton.Click()
Sleep (5000)
_IELoadWait($oIE)
For $oLink In $oLinks
    If StringInStr($oLink.innertext, "Delimited") Then
        $oLink.Focus()
        $oLink.Click()
        Exitloop
    EndIf
Next

The "action:findClins" works good.  Then, the script just ends and no Tab Delimited command is run.

thanks,

Jev

[jdelaney]

Grab the link collection, fresh, after the click.  Seems your page is refreshing, right?  You need to grab the current pages links.

Else, you are attempting to click links that are no longer present (maybe).

Edited January 3, 2014 by jdelaney

[jevbrowser]

Thanks JD.  But the page definitely has time to fully load.

Here is the source code on the final loaded page where i am trying to get the Tab Delimited hyperlink to run:

    <td colspan="2"><div align="right"><input type="submit" id="viewClinListForm_FindClins" name="action:FindClins" value="Search"/>
</div></td>
</tr>

</table>

<div id="exportlink">
Click To Download All CLINs For The Selected Manufacturer In

<a href='/sewp/jsp/ExportClins.action?format=csv&amp;selectedManufacturer=All'><span class="export csv"> CSV </span></a>
Format or as a

<a href='/sewp/jsp/ExportClins.action?format=tab&amp;selectedManufacturer=All'><span class="export csv"> Tab Delimited </span></a>
File
</div>

<span class="pagebanner">413920 items found, displaying 1 to 25.</span>
<span class="pagelinks">

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Again, the "action:FindClins" command runs fine in my script and that page loads completely.  I just can't get the very last Tab Delimited link to run.

thanks,

Jev