Using Excel to Search in another program and download

[autotune]

Hello,

I just want to start saying that I "was born yesterday" to Autoit. I have found little things I can do with it but the big things like doing repetitive tasks are seem easy in thought but since i dont know the language very hard to perform.

With that said here is what i need to do with my task at hand that involves over 200 documents. Doing this manually would take loads of time that i dont have and i also thought that this could be a tutorial for me for future purposes

First off, I have an excel spreadsheet that has the list of documents i need to retrieve from another program (Smart Plant Foundation). I basically need comb thru each document name (1 by 1 down the list) and search for that same document name in SPF to download that file. Sounds simple enough? No...

SPF is very pick on how you obtain files. I would have to search the document name first and then right click on the file, scroll to file, then choose save target as and select a location to save the target.

Please help!!! Let me know if you need more of an explanation as I usually leave a few details out!

Please take a look below at my the example

Edited July 16, 2014 by autotune

[water]

To read Excel into an array which you then can loop through I suggest to check function _Excel_RangeRead that comes with the latest version of AutoIt.