I want to transfer my text data (From Excel) into a form and submit it. It takes lot of time to perform this operation.
So I'm looking into automation tool which can do this task for me.
Basically this webpage consists of Text fields and button.
Is there any way to fill the text field and click on button, by using the Tag name of text field and button from excel?
Is this for yourself or for deployment to the web?
If it's for yourself, you could save the excel file as a CSV. You should then be able to find a way to process it into something that JS can understand.
Actually setting the value of a text element is simply done by targeting the element and setting its value=someValue. For example, you could do
var t = document.getElementById("firstTextField")
t.value = "someValue"
You could also use jQuery for that sort of thing.
You don't really need to use the browser at all. The browser and Excel are just UI on top of the underlying data and API definition, you can script this out. The general idea:
Inspect the form you're trying to submit. Find the target, the submit method, and the field names.
Export the excel file to a CSV.
Write a simple script to loop through each record and make an http request that corresponds with the form submission - same HTTP method, same target URL, putting the Excel values in under the appropriate input names.
It's hard to be more specific with the information you've provided.
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I created a PDF using Acrobat. It includes a List field to which I've mapped a CSV file. The field is populated by an Solutions Business Manager (Micro Focus) form widget. The field appears in comma-delimited form when the PDF is opened. Do I need to apply a javascript in the Acrobat Prepare Form function, in the field Properties dialog box, in order to display the values as a List? And where would I find such a script?
A javascript worked on the SBM side. The relevant command is:
var newListValue = commaDelimValue.replace(/,/g, '\n');
I'm guessing that on account of whatever SBM process writes the content to the PDF, the usual javascript in the PDF Format tab won't work.
Don't shoot me I'm new to this web programming. I'm an old (and rusty) VB programmer. I've been reading a little about js, php and html. Basically I've never used 3 different languages in one document.
Say I create an input box the user has to enter a value in, using html. Obviously this box is named say
"name First". Can I use js to grab the data in the box to preform an operation.
My idea is that I'm creating a form, I want to be able make copy and paste easier for the user. If I can I want to use js too copy all the data to the systems clip board if they double click on the input box. I'm using php because the form will be interacting with a database.
Thanks
Yes, you can get the data from an input box with Javascript.
Suppose your input field looks like this:
<input id="firstname" type="text">
Then you could get the value of that like this:
var firstname = document.getElementById("firstname").value;
Javascript does not have the ability to interact with the system clipboard directly for security vulnerability reasons. There are some work-arounds using an Adobe Flash component called zeroclipboard, but these won't work if Adobe Flash is not installed. Or, you could simulate your own clipboard (likely using local storage) that would work just on your own site.
I have a dropdown, on its change I need to load the contents related to it on the same page. Which I did using jQuery. Now the question is how do I make edits on this data and store it on my database. If I am wrong in using jQuery for loading my data then what else should I use? I am using PHP as my server side scripting language.
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Simply taking there a list of details I need to display as per the country you select, which I am displaying currently in a nice grid(textboxes)!
Now the data from this grid should be copied to another textbox on "EDIT" button click from where I edit them and store it in my database. I am not able to make the values copy into a another textbox
You could do this:
Display the data in some form of editable div, textarea, or other element.
Make a hidden field somewhere and when you display the data
Set the row id from your database to the hidden field
On your change event, grab the id from the hidden field along with the edited data.
Using Jquery/ajax, send that data to a php page that will save thee data to your database using the passed in id.
You could do that.
However, if it were me (and if you're not married to your current databse / mySQL etc..), I would use parse.com. The service is free up to a significant amount of usage (which Ive never come close to) and it really simplifies everything. See the below post if you're interested in that approach:
Save and retrieve user input from database with javascript?
I have a page where I need to filter certain values provided by an embedded widget based on user input in a text field.
I can do this by appending certain parameters to the widget code embedded on the page and refresh the page
How do I take the user input , replace the widget code and refresh the page?
this is the code I might need to append to the widget code that already exist on my page.
%22filter%22:%7B%22keyword%22:%22userprovidedvalue%22%7D,
I am using jsp
You should be able to handle it by putting an onchange on the input field, and sending it to a function that reads the value off of the input field. Alternately, you can have the submit button call a function, that first reads the value off the input field, then performs whatever logic you need, then submits the form.
Jquery is often useful for making things like this easier and more intuitive, though it does have a bit of a learning curve to ramp up.
When I open a blank form to add new row to the grid, I need some fields on the form to be dynamically updated by going to the database to search for data if I change a field on the form.
I found the code in the javascript to create a form for adding new row, may I change it to read from an external file (like an asp, php page) or is there any way to do it properly??
You must use ajax to make calls to proper functions and change your html according to response data.
More info about ajax
Jquery supports ajax and have many nice features for ajax usage and let you have nice page alteration based on html DOM. So i advice you to have a look at it...