How to use _IEFormElementGetObjByName without name?

[stupidngai]

I used DebugBar to find the infomation of the field in website:

<INPUT id=standardPeriodChooserPrompt_toDate onchange=' htmlInputs_onchangeUpdateNode( genericXSLTCallerRenderer3Renderer.model, "/*/To", this.value, "","",true, this ); reValidateData();' value=2009-01-01 bcdMandatory="false" bcdBaseClass="editFormTextField" bcdDataType="date">

I found that no name for this field! How can I use _IEFormElementGetObjByName($o_form, "name")??

I try to use id as name but fail.

Since it is the company internal web system, so it is useless to post the website as you cannot access to it...

Hope somebody can help.

[BrettF]

Hi, Welcome to the forums!

I would try something like so:

#include <IE.au3>

$oIE = _IECreate ("http://www.google.com")
$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection ($oIE, 0)
$oQuery = _IEGetObjById($oIE, "q"); 2nd Param = Name/ID
_IEFormElementSetValue ($oQuery, "AutoIt IE.au3")
_IEFormSubmit ($oForm)

It's always good to post your code, etc. to show what you've tried- it makes it easier for us, and who knows, you might be very close!

Cheers,

Brett

[DaleHohm]

Please read the remarks section in the helpfile for _IEFormElementGetObjByName

[TerarinK]

It does have a name

<INPUT id=standardPeriodChooserPrompt_toDate onchange=' htmlInputs_onchangeUpdateNode( genericXSLTCallerRenderer3Renderer.model, "/*/To", this.value, "","",true, this ); reValidateData();' value=2009-01-01 bcdMandatory="false" bcdBaseClass="editFormTextField" bcdDataType="date">

There is however another way to retrieve this information by going through _IETagNameGetCollection and following the example in the help file there

[PsaltyDS]

It does have a name

<INPUT id=standardPeriodChooserPrompt_toDate onchange=' htmlInputs_onchangeUpdateNode( genericXSLTCallerRenderer3Renderer.model, "/*/To", this.value, "","",true, this ); reValidateData();' value=2009-01-01 bcdMandatory="false" bcdBaseClass="editFormTextField" bcdDataType="date">

There is however another way to retrieve this information by going through _IETagNameGetCollection and following the example in the help file there

Note that .id and .name are different properties. So no, this does not have a name, but it does have a useful id.

[DaleHohm]

Almost...

In fact the DOM does something unexpected here and the a Name will match either a name= or id= attribute. On the other hand, ID will only match id=

Dale

[stupidngai]

Please read the remarks section in the helpfile for _IEFormElementGetObjByName

I read the Help and see the remarks...

Remarks

If the desired form element does not have a name or ID, _IEFormElementGetCollection to get a reference by index

In fact I don't understand how to get a reference by index... is it a number like 0, 1, 2, 3??

But I try it and get nothing eventually...

Here is my code:

$oIE2 = _IENavigate($oIE, $MIP_OB_TT)

Sleep(10000)

$o_form2 = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE2)

$o_from = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($o_form2, 0)

$o_to = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($o_form2, 1)

_IEFormElementSetValue($o_from, "2009-01-01")

_IEFormElementSetValue($o_to, "2009-01-04")

[DaleHohm]

Are you running your code in SciTe? If not, you are missing a lot. In particular, taht code should be returning helpful warning and error messages to the console -- please don't ignore them.

Dale

[PsaltyDS]

Almost...

In fact the DOM does something unexpected here and the a Name will match either a name= or id= attribute. On the other hand, ID will only match id=

Dale

Huh. Learn something new every day... and I'm done for today!

[LubeLee]

Huh. Learn something new every day... and I'm done for today!

This question is still unsolved

What is the matter, bros?

Why don't we have try "_IEGetObjById"? - This is not optimal but usable, right?

OR think of Dale suggest (remarks of "_IEFormGetCollection")

Here:

*/ no ID or Name needed to identify form/element but its order of appearance in the returned HTML page (and this order is something we always have)

#include <IE.au3>

$oIE = _IECreate ("http://www.google.com")

$oForm = _IEFormGetCollection ($oIE, 0) ; I realize my desired form is the 1st form (forms/elements order starts with 0)

$oQuery = _IEFormElementGetCollection ($oForm, 1) ; similarly, I realize my desired form element is the 2st element of the form $oForm

_IEFormElementSetValue ($oQuery, "AutoIt IE.au3") ; no care, this is the problem of identification

_IEFormSubmit ($oForm) ; no care, this is the problem of identification

OR make an improve to IE.au3 add to it the accompany of "_IEFormGetObjByName" - "_IEFormGetObjById"

For this, we need help of the author of IE.au3

[PsaltyDS]

The point was that the name function will match either name or id. Did you try something like this?

$oQuery = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oForm, "standardPeriodChooserPrompt_toDate")

[DaleHohm]

And the point was also to use _IEFormGetCollection (that is what the Remarks tell you about)

#include <IE.au3>
$oIE = _IECreate("www.google.com")
$oForms = _IEFormGetCollection($oIE)
ConsoleWrite("Forms found on page: " & @extended & $CRLF)
For $oForm in $oForms
    ConsoleWrite(_IEPropertyGet($oForm, "outerhtml" & @CRLF & "-----------------" & @CRLF)
Next

Dale