Hi All,

More and more are my clients having to fill in web data (via a browser) on behalf of service providers, government organisations etc. This data was previously supplied via email or documentation. These service providers do not provide an API to interface with their system.

I was wondering if there is a way to create some sort of keyboard macro that can be used to enter data on a web site using OI data. If this were possible this would save many hours per day.

Any advice would be grateful.

Chris

You might be able to make a form with an Olecontrol using Shell.explorer,

on the Create event call oleCallMethod(@window:'.OLE_1', 'Navigate2', myurl)

then you can try using OlePutProperty or OleSendMessage with GetElementbyID to set the form elements.

You would need to open the form in a regular browser in developer mods and use inspect to find all the element ids

Here is an example in python, to show you the general idea. I'll see if I have a snippet in Basic+

https://learn.onemonth.com/automate-web-forms-with-python/

You might be able to make a form with an Olecontrol using Shell.explorer,

on the Create event call oleCallMethod(@window:'.OLE_1', 'Navigate2', myurl)

then you can try using OlePutProperty or OleSendMessage with GetElementbyID to set the form elements.

You would need to open the form in a regular browser in developer mods and use inspect to find all the element ids

Here is an example in python, to show you the general idea. I'll see if I have a snippet in Basic+

https://learn.onemonth.com/automate-web-forms-with-python/

This blog article is a bit old and might not be ideally suited to this use case, but it might help lay a foundation for solving the problem using Bob's suggestion.

Don Bakke

SRP Computer Solutions, Inc.

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