Hello,
I'm currently designing a program to automate the submission of data to a Federal regulatory agency. It will pull data from excel sheets and populate the corresponding fields online. I had no issue with general webpages, I just use the following command for each field:
WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("ElementID").SetAttribute("value", "ExcelField".Value2)
Now this works great with typical html pages with forms to fill so I was planning on just expanding upon these basics to fill out an form with multiple fields for population. However, after further examination it looks like the Agency uses a Java Applet interface for data input.
This has made everything much more difficult and I'm not completely sure how I can automate the population of this form. Previously I was just opening the pages in Firefox and using the "Inspect Element" tool to examine each field, get the element ID, and possible values. I did this to avoid having to scan through a bunch of page source code. But with the Java Applet this tool no longer is an option. I can still open up the page's source code however.
If it would be helpful I could post the source code as well as my VB code. But has anyone ever had any experience with manipulating fields in an online Java Applet?
Thanks,
Michael
I'm currently designing a program to automate the submission of data to a Federal regulatory agency. It will pull data from excel sheets and populate the corresponding fields online. I had no issue with general webpages, I just use the following command for each field:
WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("ElementID").SetAttribute("value", "ExcelField".Value2)
Now this works great with typical html pages with forms to fill so I was planning on just expanding upon these basics to fill out an form with multiple fields for population. However, after further examination it looks like the Agency uses a Java Applet interface for data input.
This has made everything much more difficult and I'm not completely sure how I can automate the population of this form. Previously I was just opening the pages in Firefox and using the "Inspect Element" tool to examine each field, get the element ID, and possible values. I did this to avoid having to scan through a bunch of page source code. But with the Java Applet this tool no longer is an option. I can still open up the page's source code however.
If it would be helpful I could post the source code as well as my VB code. But has anyone ever had any experience with manipulating fields in an online Java Applet?
Thanks,
Michael