Is this possible

[Bert]

Driving home today, I was thinking about the scripting problems I was having with IE.au3, and how much I have learned lately. ( Thank Dale and Big_daddy! ) and I had a thought. Is it possible to take a webpage that has a button on it, and change the function of that button from the client side?

We have a ticket system at work, and its one BIG problem is it doesn't have a field for a SN#. This is quite fustrating, for we can't track what is happening with the equipment that breaks. We currently use a field labled "vender ticket" for this when needed, but that field is used for other stuff also. What I'm thinking is adding a SN# field when certain criteria are met (Other fields have certain data, such as "Configuration - Hardware") and have the submit button changed so that it will also read the controls on the page, and send the information to a database that is not part of the program. It would be a separate database that would allow us to track the #SN.

The company won't spend the money to have the vender add the field to the source code. The standard company policy says use the software out of the box. No, don't say to change the software. That isn't possible, so I will not even discuss that. It is possible to have a "add-in" to the software and when it is running to have the changes made on the workstation. (I already have done this, and it works great.) I'm happy to take this offline and discuss in PM if needed. I can see the "darkside" of such a thing, but this usuage would NOT be for such. It would simply allow for me and the people I work with to easily track what is happening with equipment that breaks, and needs parts.

To put it simply, can you change the way a button functions on a webpage from the client side?

Edited November 3, 2006 by vollyman

[Fossil Rock]

I don't know how adamant your company is or how strict your IT dept. is or how complex the software you are using is... but have you considered writing your own client ?

There's plenty of code in the forum to manipulate web pages, so in theory you could write your own client and then have the data transfered to the web page accordingly. Thus you really never need to view their version.

Just an idea.

[Bert]

Writting my own client is not possible. I have to use what they provide me. The program is called Unicenter. (Made by COmputer Assoaciates) It is web based. This is what makes me think I can do what I proposed. The idea of designing a client to do what you ask is something I rather not attempt. (It would be daunting to say the least!) I rather just change one button, which would solve the problem.

Edited November 3, 2006 by vollyman

[heibel]

To put it simply, can you change the way a button functions on a webpage from the client side?

Hi, not sure if I understand or that this help (hard to understand the english...)

Anyway:

If some page has a button that when onclicked does some javascript-function eg: myfunc()

then:

from autoit-exe (running on user)

- track for browser and html-page 'as usual'...

- rewrite the function dynamically like: (based on whatever info from page or user)

$NewFunction="myfunc(){"&"whatever"&"}"

$o_head = $oIE.document.all.tags ("head").Item (0)

$o_script = $oIE.document.createElement ("script");

With $o_script

.text = $NewFunction

EndWith

$o_head.appendChild ($o_script)

- This will 'overwrite' (if already exist) the javascript-function and act like it

Hope it helps...

PS: to add:

you can rewrite anything on any webpage-object like:

V_objLink2[V_i].onmouseover = new Function("this.style.cursor='wait';");

V_objLink2[V_i].onclick = new Function("return false;");

which of course could be part of your 'new' function

etc.

Harry

Edited November 3, 2006 by heibel

[DaleHohm]

The short answer is "yes". There would be many ways to approach this.

Dale

[Bert]

This has the wheels turning! I will have to do some research then to see how to do it, but this looks like it will be fun to do. Thanks guys!

[DaleHohm]

You can consider putting together a frontend (either a webpage or an AutoIt GUI) that collects all of the information for Unicenter plus your SN... then you populate your database with the appropriate information and pas the required data to the Unicenter web form and submit it...

You can also tap into the form submit event in the browser and popup a web browser with some of the info from the Unicenter form and prompt for the SN and then store all that info in your database.

You can dynamically add a field to your Unicenter web page for SN (I wouldn't add it to the main unicenter <form > however) and then tap into the onsubmit event to take appropriate action with that data.

Aother approach would be to find another field on the Unicenter form, indeally a textarea with lots of room, and enter structured data into it that you can later parse and report on using your Unicenter database (no need for a seperate database). Something like <SN>yourserialnumberhere</SN> or /SN/yourserialnumberhere/ or %%SN:yourserialnumberhere%%

Dale