Stuck on VBA Web Automation

[nelly]

Hi Folks

I am having trouble trying to get VBA to click on an image on a web page.
The HTML java code is as follows: (sendsmsform is a function)

<!--<input type="button" name="submitsms" value="send your message"
onClick="sendsmsform();">-->
<a href="#" onClick="sendsmsform();"><img src="/messaging/send_message.jpg"
alt="send message" border="0" /></a>

My VBA code is as follows:

Private Sub SMS_STORE_FIGURES_TO_MANAGERS_2()
Dim i As Long
Dim IE As Object
Dim objElement As Object
Dim objCollection As Object

' Create InternetExplorer Object
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")

' You can uncoment Next line To see form results
IE.Visible = True

' Send the form data To URL As POST binary request
IE.Navigate "http://intranet/cgi-bin/sms.pl?trig=template"

' Statusbar
Application.StatusBar = "messaging is loading. Please wait..."

' Wait while IE loading...
'IE.Navigate2 URL
Do While IE.readyState <> 4
DoEvents
Loop

Do While IE.Busy = True
DoEvents
Loop


Application.StatusBar = "Search form submission. Please wait..."

Set objCollection = IE.Document.getElementsByTagName("input")

i = 0
While i < objCollection.Length
If objCollection(i).Name = "Number" Then

' Set text for search
objCollection(i).Value = "07971411105"

End If
i = i + 1
Wend

Set objCollection = IE.Document.getElementsByTagName("textarea")

i = 0
While i < objCollection.Length
If objCollection(i).Name = "Message" Then

' Set text for search
objCollection(i).Value = "07971411105"

End If
i = i + 1
Wend

Set objCollection = IE.Document.getElementsByTagName("textarea")

i = 0
While i < objCollection.Length
If objCollection(i).Name = "Message" Then

' Set text for search
objCollection(i).Value = "Neil is SOOOO COOOOL"

End If
i = i + 1
Wend

Set objCollection = IE.Document.getElementsByTagName("input")

i = 0
While i < objCollection.Length
If objCollection(i).Name = "readit" Then

' Set text for search
Set objElement = objCollection(i)
objElement.Click
End If
i = i + 1
Wend

Set objCollection = IE.Document.getElementsByTagName("img")

' Set text for search
Set objElement = objCollection

objElement.onclick


' Wait while IE re-loading...
Do While IE.Busy
Application.Wait DateAdd("s", 1, Now)
Loop

' Show IE
IE.Visible = True

' Clean up
Set IE = Nothing
Set objElement = Nothing
Set objCollection = Nothing

Application.StatusBar = ""
End Sub

If you need the Full Code for the web page I can add this although its a
company internal page so you will not be able to view it.

 

[Joel]

I think the answer "MAY" be simple. Yo need to select the button

objElement.select
objElement.onclick

You may have multiple tag items named "img".

You may be able to get the button name with this line
set obj = IE.Document.all.item("submitsms")


this debug code may help

Private Sub Dump()
Dim i As Long
Dim IE As Object
Dim objElement As Object
Dim objCollection As Object

' Create InternetExplorer Object
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")

' You can uncoment Next line To see form results
IE.Visible = True

' Send the form data To URL As POST binary request
IE.Navigate "http://intranet/cgi-bin/sms.pl?trig=template"

' Statusbar
Application.StatusBar = "messaging is loading. Please wait..."

' Wait while IE loading...
'IE.Navigate2 URL
Do While IE.readyState <> 4
DoEvents
Loop

Do While IE.Busy = True
DoEvents
Loop


RowCount = 1
for each itm in IE.Document.all
Range("A" & RowCount) = itm.tagname
Range("B" & RowCount) = itm.classname
Range("C" & RowCount) = itm.id 'comment out if errors
Range("D" & RowCount) = itm.name 'comment out if errors
Range("E" & RowCount) = left(itm.innertext,1024)
RowCount = Rowcount + 1
next itm

end Sub

 

[nelly]

Hi Joel

set obj = IE.Document.all.item("submitsms") - obj = Nothing

A runtime error occurs on objElement.select

Regards

 

[Joel]

The all method I jsut learned about and haven';t fully learned how to use.
It seem to find object listed as ID= but not on tags. If yo are getting an
error on the select then you are not on an object the has an ONClick property.

You need to run the dump program I posted and post the rows from the excel
sheet near the object you are trying to find.

I sometime have to use code like this to stop . then set a wat item to
"ITM" and look through the property until you find an item with an ONCLICK
property. It is sometimes one ro two objects away from the item that yo are
looking for. they also may be children of the object you are looking for. I
sometime get very frustrated trying to get code like this working, but I
always find a way.

Private Sub DSopp()
Dim i As Long
Dim IE As Object
Dim objElement As Object
Dim objCollection As Object

' Create InternetExplorer Object
Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")

' You can uncoment Next line To see form results
IE.Visible = True

' Send the form data To URL As POST binary request
IE.Navigate "http://intranet/cgi-bin/sms.pl?trig=template"

' Statusbar
Application.StatusBar = "messaging is loading. Please wait..."

' Wait while IE loading...
'IE.Navigate2 URL
Do While IE.readyState <> 4
DoEvents
Loop

Do While IE.Busy = True
DoEvents
Loop


RowCount = 1
For Each itm In IE.Document.all
If RowCount = 135 Then Stop

RowCount = RowCount + 1
Next itm

End Sub

 

[nelly]

Hi Jeol

Many thanks for your ideas. Through trial and error from the the info you
gave I got this to work by the following.

Set obj = IE.Document.all.Item("smsform")

obj.submit

Thanks Again