Non-standard naming convention and trying to hit a button

[trdunsworth]

I'm working on a program that allows my users to input information in a GUI and then hit a button and write that information two places. So far, for each of the html pages it has to write to, I've had no problems. When it comes to reaching the screen to enter orders of protection, I run into a snag. All of the other pages they need are accessible from a dropdown menu at the top of the page. (I did not write the html I have to access, just as an fyi) However, for this one, I have to click a button on a main frame in the page, which will lead to another page, with another button. However, here's the rub. The button does not have a name, it has a submitName as a custom HTML attribute.

<button submitName="Orders Of Protection" style="width: 135px; height: 30px;" onclick="bClicked('submenu.htm?ref=OOPMENU', 'Orders Of Protection')" type="button" oldbackgroundcolor="buttonface" oldtextcolor="">

My code to reach it works. I am using a similar template and in testing a base code, it tells me that there's no match for the submitName attribute, but it doesn't argue with the drill down to reach it.

#include <IE.au3>

If WinActivate("REJIS - HOME") = 0 Then
   MsgBox(0, "Error", "The REJIS Home Window is not open. Please re-open it and re-submit the request.")
   Exit
EndIf
WinActivate("REJIS - HOME")
Local $oIE1 = _IEAttach("REJIS - HOME")
Local $oFrame1 = _IEFrameGetObjByName($oIE1, "MAIN")
Local $oFrame2 = _IEFrameGetObjByName($oFrame1, "HOMEBOTTOM")
Local $oBtn1 = _IEGetObjByName($oFrame2, "Orders of Protection")
_IEAction($oBtn1, "click")

This is test code only to reach that specific button. The production code is much longer so I am submitting the test.

The <button> is embedded in 3 framesets to get to the "MAIN" frame, then 1 frameset to get to the "HOMEBOTTOM" frame, then inside that frame's body tag, it is in a table, 3rd row, 3rd cell in the row. (I don't know if I'm allowed to expose all of the html by contract.) which makes it fun to find and I do not have a name or an id attribute in the buttons, the table or any of the table's descendents.

Any ideas on how to find it so I can click it? (Without going to the website authors and asking them to please write better html....)

[jdelaney]

Grab all buttons, and loop through until one of the attributes matches what's present.

[Inververs]

Or  $oIe.document.querySelector('button[submitname="Orders Of Protection"]').click()

IE 9+ required.

[jdelaney]

Nice.  Never knew about this...I can modify my signature to use this...it even returns object collections, and no more need for recursion...perfect.

Edited November 19, 2014 by jdelaney

[trdunsworth]

I started messing around with the first suggestion and got fed up and just did MouseClick inside the button. (Setting the mouse coordinates to inside the IE Window.)

I tried the $oIE1.document.querySelector, but I think I did something wrong because it didn't do anything, but exited with 0, so I'm guessing it's programmer error at this stage....

[SmOke_N]

It gives you the function name:

onclick="bClicked('submenu.htm?ref=OOPMENU', 'Orders Of Protection')"

;I'd try using something like:
Execute("$oFrame2.document.parentwindow.eval(""bClicked('submenu.htm?ref=OOPMENU', 'Orders Of Protection')"")")
;or
Execute("$oFrame2.document.parentwindow.execScript(""bClicked('submenu.htm?ref=OOPMENU', 'Orders Of Protection')"")")
 
;If that doesn't work:
Execute("$oFrame2.parentwindow.eval(""bClicked('submenu.htm?ref=OOPMENU', 'Orders Of Protection')"")")
;or
Execute("$oFrame2.parentwindow.execScript(""bClicked('submenu.htm?ref=OOPMENU', 'Orders Of Protection')"")")
 
;And If that doesn't work:
Execute("$oFrame2.document.eval(""bClicked('submenu.htm?ref=OOPMENU', 'Orders Of Protection')"")")
;or
Execute("$oFrame2.document.execScript(""bClicked('submenu.htm?ref=OOPMENU', 'Orders Of Protection')"")")
 
;And if still that doesn't work:
Execute("$oFrame2.eval(""bClicked('submenu.htm?ref=OOPMENU', 'Orders Of Protection')"")")
;or
Execute("$oFrame2.execScript(""bClicked('submenu.htm?ref=OOPMENU', 'Orders Of Protection')"")")

Edited November 19, 2014 by SmOke_N