InternetExplorer.Application access element with no ID

[woter324]

Hi,

I'm trying to automate the opening and login of several of our monitoring system web pages. It was all going well until I had to do HP System Insight Manager (SIM) where there is no ID tag given for me to tell it to ".click()".

On other pages, I have done this:

Set oIE5LB = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
oIE5LB.Visible = True
oIE5LB.Navigate "[URL unfurl="true"]https://somedeviceurl/Appliance"[/URL]
oIE5LB.Width = 840
oIE5LB.Height = 1028
oIE5LB.Top = 0
oIE5LB.Left = 840
oIE5LB.AddressBar = False 
oIE5LB.ToolBar = False
WaitForLoad(oIE5LB)
oIE5LB.Document.all("overridelink").click() 'As there is a certificate error
oIE5LB.Document.forms("mswlogin").all("userid").Value="AnROUser"
oIE5LB.Document.forms("mswlogin").all("pass").Value="myPasswordInClearText"
oIE5LB.Document.forms("mswlogin").all("stdButton").click()
oIE5LB.Document.forms("mswLogin").submit()
WaitForLoad(oIE5LB)
oIE5LB.Document.all("mtbHealth").click()

Where mtbHealth is the ID for the link I wish to automate. The HTML on the specific page looks like:

<a id="mtbHealth" href="/Appliance/SystemsCenter/Health/index.jsp">

Now for HP SIM, the HTML code looks like:

<tr>
  <td align="center" class="header-status-counts">
    <span id="firstStatusCritical" name="firstStatusCritical">
      <a title="All Systems: Critical Uncleared Events; click for details." class="header-status-counts" href="javascript:createList(5,2,90194313226,"All Systems: Critical Uncleared Events")">

In the <a> element there is no ID tag for me to reference.

I have tried:

Set test = oIE5LT.Document.getElementById("firstStatusCritical")
test.click()

But it returns "Object Required" on test.click.

If anyone could suggest a way of getting the hyperlink to open from code, I'd be very grateful.


One other thing, if a page uses windows authentication forms (from a different domain) is there a way I can pass credentials to the login prompt?

Many thanks

W.

 

[Geates]

test.click() operates on the test span object not the anchor object. Try (untested):

set span = document.getElementById("firstStatusCritical")
set anchor = span.getElementsByTagName("a")
msgbox anchor[0].value

.getElementByTagName() returns a collection of objects with the specified element name. Seeing as how there is only 1 anchor element within the span, only one object is returned and indexed cardinally (start from zero).

-Geates


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[woter324]

Thanks for your help Geates.

Unfortuanatly, I'm still getting "Object Required" on the Set oAnchor(0)... line.

The code I have tried:

Set oSpan = oIE5LT.Document.getElementById("firstStatusCritical")
Set oAnchor = oSpan.getElementByTagName("a")
oAnchor(0).click()
MsgBox oAnchor(0).value

Thanks Again.

W.

 

[Geates]

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