ie object fill in web textbox on website with Frames

[kryadan]

Hey all,



The point of this project is for our customer service to click a button and that will open the website with the corporate name and username filled in for them, all they need to do is type in their password. I can automate filling in a textbox on a website like google that doesn't use frames, but when the site uses frames I'm stumped. Below are examples.

To open a website and pre-fill a textbox is no problem on a site with no frames (google in this example):

Dim ie As InternetExplorer
Set ie = New InternetExplorer
ie.Visible = True
ie.Navigate http://www.google.com 
ie.Document.getElementById("q").value = "My Search Text"

My problem occurs on the website https://www.beanstream.com/Admin/sDefault.asp where frames are used. Not certain how to navigate through the Ie object when there are frames present.

I've used the debugger to try and go through my ie object to find the textbox name (<INPUT type="textbox" NAME="merchantName" id="merchantName">) but I just can't seem to figure out how to get through it with the Frames.

Any help at all would be great!

[ajetrumpet]

are you telling us that this code:

<TD><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="arial">Company:</FONT></TD>

						<TD><INPUT type="textbox" NAME="merchantName" id="merchantName"

becomes irrelevant when it's put inside of a frame or iframe? so the 'getElementById' syntax in access VBA does not work. is that what you're saying?

Frames are something that I have not figured out either, but I would assume they are enumerated on the page, just like everything else. Have you tried something to the effect of:

internetexplorer.frames(0).controls("merchantname").value = "your input"

??

The other thing to consider also, if you're going to reference an enumeration like that, is to know that javascript generally references array elements and enumerations with brackets [], so it is quite possible that the following would yield some result:

internetexplorer.frames[0].controls("merchantname").value = "your input"

I don't know really, but it's worth a try for sure.

One more thing too...where I used "controls", I don't think that would be the right collection. It is not the same as the controls collection in VBA. It would be called something else. Maybe try substituting the 'getElement' js code in there?