Manually trigger IE onClick event

[Dominic_Fichera]

Hi All,

wondering if anyone has come across a way to manually trigger an "onClick" event associated with a button within a page?

At the moment, the only way for my to get it working with the web recorder is to have the mouse hover over a button on a page which then shows the "download" button. This becomes a bit of a problem if I want to run the script with the PC screen locked. I have also tried using an IEClickTag function, but this doesn't successfully emulate a "hover" action to show the button.

In my specific instance, the HTML is as follows:

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<input name="downloadFile" type="button" class="button" value="Download" onclick="startDownload('filename')">

And the part I want to manually trigger is:

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onclick="startDownload('filename')"

Hope this makes sense! Also open to alternatives.

Dominic Fichera

[Marcus Tettmar]

Try UIClick - the UI functions sometimes work with web elements. Or Image Recognition.

[zabros2020]

Fully agree with Marcus.
I had a similar issue with one of the applications i needed to automate. I could not trigger the click in any of the web recorder functions. So i used the UIClick function and it solved my problem and will still work even if the screen is locked. I tried it.
Here is a little example:

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Let>url=http://www.google.com/
IECreate>ie
IEGetHWND>ie,ieHnd
IENavigate>%ie%,%url%,res
IEWaitTimeout>%ie%,3,0.2,res
Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=1
UIClick>%ieHnd%,{"I'm Feeling Lucky"}
IEWaitTimeout>%ie%,3,0.2,res