Automating Internet Explorer

Question

Can anyone offer any suggestions for "something" that an end-user could use to put together macros that automate some CRM forms in Internet Explorer?

• I was originally going to suggest iMacro, but then found out
  (i) they only have Internet Explorer and
  (ii) to make things even worse, it's version 6 :-(
• it has to be fairly simple, so I can't suggest something like WATIN
• but the forms on the page are not very complicated: type some text in, select from a list, click the submit button

Cheers, SteveC.

Answer 1

Just write some javascript bookmarklets. Anything you can do to the page you should be able to do in JScript.

If you want to automate outside the HTML area, you'll have to use COM Automation.

Answer 2

What about RoboForm?

Answer 3

How about Selenium?

Answer 4

How about AutoHotKey?

Answer 5

or autoit: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml

Answer 6

If you can at some time upgrade to Firefox, i highly recommend these tools. Good luck though.

• Molybdenum
• TestGen4Web

Answer 7

I've had some reasonable success with iMacros. I use the free Firefox plugin, but the full blown application can do much more.

http://www.iopus.com/imacros/

The addon for Firefox is free, and there is a free plugin for IE too.

Answer 8

You can use Powershell. Here is a simple example:

    $ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application"
    $ie.visible = $true
    $ie.navigate2("www.myweb.com")
    $doc = $ie.Document
    $input1 = $doc.getElementById("username")
    $input1.value = "user"
    $input2 = $doc.getElementById("password")
    $input2.value = "pwd"
    $button = $doc.getElementById("submit")
    $button.click()