Selecting options from HTML drop-down list.

[Skysis]

Hello,

I'm trying to automate an HTML drop-down list selection, but haven't been able to do it successfully with the _IE functions.    I'd love to give you the actual page, but it sits behind my login.  The relevant HTML is as follows:

<form action="/ads/CaseLogs/CaseEntry/Insert" method="post">    

  <div class="header fixed-scroll">

  <div class="pull-right">

  <button type="submit" class="btn btn-success" id="submitButton">Submit</button>

 

<li class="default-width"><label for="Institution">Institution</label> 

<select data-val="true" data-val-required="This field is required." id="Institutions" name="Institutions">

<option value="">-- Select --</option>

<option value="13381">Location 1</option>

<option value="13182">Location 2</option>

<option value="13405">Location 3</option>

<option value="19367">Other Institution</option>

</select>

 

All I want to do is to select the desired location from the drop-down list.  "Select" is there by default.

_IETagNameGetCollection was able to pull all the elements from the drop-down list but I was unable to force selection.  I tried _IEFormElementOptionSelect, but there is no form name or ID, and I was not able to make it work.  Any suggestions?

 

Thanks

[MikahS]

How did you try and use

_IEFormElementOptionSelect

Did you try and pass it the correct object returned with your selection to

_IEFormElementOptionSelect

Posting your code would help out greatly to see what you are doing

Edited August 12, 2014 by MikahS

[Danp2]

If there's only one form on the page, then you can get a reference to it with:

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection, 0)

From there, you should be able to use the following:

$oSelect = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "Institutions")
_IEFormElementOptionSelect($oSelect, "13405")

[Skysis]

How did you try and use

_IEFormElementOptionSelect

Did you try and pass it the correct object returned with your selection to

_IEFormElementOptionSelect

Posting your code would help out greatly to see what you are doing

 

I tried this 3 different ways, as below.  Nothing worked.  Would appreciate any suggestions, thanks:

1.

$oIE1 = _IECreate("https://www.acgme.org/ads/CaseLogs/CaseEntry/Insert")

$oLocList = _IEGetObjByName($oIE1, "Institutions")

_IEPropertySet($oLocList, "innertext", "Location 2")

2.

$oIE = _IECreate("https://www.acgme.org/ads/CaseLogs/CaseEntry/Insert")

$oDownloadSamples = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "Institiutions")

$oDownloadSamplesSelect = _IETagNameGetCollection($oDownloadSamples, "select", 0)

$oDownloadSamplesSelect.focus

_IEFormElementOptionSelect($oDownloadSamplesSelect, "Location 2", 1, "byText")

3.

$oIE = _IECreate("https://www.acgme.org/ads/CaseLogs/CaseEntry/Insert")

Local $oForm = _IEFormGetObjByName($oIE, "Institutions")

Local $oSelect = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "Location 2")

_IEAction($oSelect, "focus")

 

[Skysis]

 

If there's only one form on the page, then you can get a reference to it with:

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection, 0)

From there, you should be able to use the following:

$oSelect = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "Institutions")
_IEFormElementOptionSelect($oSelect, "13405")

 

Update: just tried your suggestion, and it worked nicely.  Thanks!