Easier ways to automate a website with grids

[CaptainBeardsEyesBeard]

Hi 

 

So I have a website with a simple grid layout. Clciking into each folder will either produce more folders or a report (in a same grid setup). 

 

There's different amounts of folders and reports in each folder ranging from 0 to lots. 

 

I was wondering if there is a way to automate this in a better way than I'm currently doing  

At the moment I'm going into each folder and seeing how many reports are in there then doing something like this

 

For $Y = 0 To 1
  For $X = 0 To 4
User_Reporting_WAA_WAA_Reporting_Querying(($X * 202) + 141, ($Y * 76) + 330)
   Next
Next

where the function looks like this 

Func User_Reporting_WAA_WAA_Reporting_Querying($Xin, $Yin)
    OpenIE("http://devsite/folder1")
 Click_UserReporting()
 
Click_Grid_1_5()

Click_Grid_1_2()
MouseClick('primary', $Xin, $Yin, 1)
 EndFunc

So essentially I'm just using mouse clicks to run these reports. 

 

Is there a more sensible/quicker way to automate this. 

Edited September 6, 2018 by CaptainBeardsEyesBeard

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@CaptainBeardsEyesBeard
Without seeing the webpage, I think that it could be a bit difficult
By the way, if you're automating Web stuffs, use _IE* functions ( as @jdelaney suggested you here ), or use one of these UDF.

Cheers

[CaptainBeardsEyesBeard]

OK so here's a pic of the inside of one folder which has both folders and reports in. If you clicked into a new folder they'd be either more folders/more reports or nothing.

(3.png) 

The home page would just be a similar layout of grids of folders (similar in spacing to the pic) 

 

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@CaptainBeardsEyesBeard
Did you try to automate this with _IE* functions?

[CaptainBeardsEyesBeard]

Hmm I'm looking at the IE functions but the site is basically all javascript generated. 

[AutoBert]

1 hour ago, CaptainBeardsEyesBeard said:

Hmm I'm looking at the IE functions but the site is basically all javascript generated. 

you can insert additional code also to handle the existing scrpts.

Quote

_IEHeadInsertEventScript

Inserts a Javascript into the Head of the document

Edited September 6, 2018 by AutoBert

[jdelaney]

As long as you can see the nodes in the dom object, it doesn't matter how the page is built.   it might be that you will have to loop until the page fully updates.   the exception would be things like flash.

Edited September 6, 2018 by jdelaney