So I made a form to use for browing the WWW. In the form initialization, I
navigate to a target. In the form activation, I set the window size and
position. The next thing I need to do is send some data to the form, as
there is a log on screen which I must go through. I use 'Sendkeys' to send
'usrnam' and 'passwrd'. But if I place it in the initialization or
activation subroutines, it never reaches the browser window. I apparently
must complete the activation phase to use 'Sendkeys'? How do I get my name
and pw sent to the browsed object?

When it asks for username and password, excel will hold the code
execution. So no use putting code for SendKeys in excel itself.
I made simillar automation program, of checking for new data on a web
site and updating the new data in execl. This program runs 1:00 AM in
the night. What I did is
at 1:00 AM I launch a Winword document (Task Scheduler).
This winword document in it's open even launches the excel workbook
through Shell command, so that the excel application ID is known.
Allowing some time for the username and password dialog box to appear,
winword sends username and password to the excel using AppActivate
first.

Code in Winword is somplething like this:
(In the winword document, there is a single table with single cell, to
store the ApplicationID).

Private Sub Document_Open()
Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:02"), "OpMyWeb"
End Sub

Then the procedures are in modules as under:

Sub OpMyWeb()
Dim myIDnum As Long
myIDnum = Shell("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11
\EXCEL.EXE D:\IntraTrack\WebQuery.xls", vbNormalFocus)
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Select
Selection.Text = myIDnum
Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:10"), "EnQuer"
End Sub

So allowing 10 seconds, Procedure EnQuer runs, which is only for
clicking on 'Enable Auto Web Query'. (You may not need this, and you can
jump to SendPass.)

Sub EnQuer()
Dim myIDnum As Long
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Select
myIDnum = Left(Selection.Text, Len(Selection.Text) - 2)
AppActivate myIDnum
SendKeys "{TAB}", True
SendKeys "{ENTER}", True
ThisDocument.Activate
Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:30"), "SendPass"
End Sub

So allowing 30 seconds for username & pwd box to appear, I run SendPass
procedure, which sends the user name and passowrd, and then winword
document is closed.

Sub SendPass()
Dim myIDnum As Long
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Select
myIDnum = Left(Selection.Text, Len(Selection.Text) - 2)
AppActivate myIDnum
SendKeys "username", True
SendKeys "{TAB}", True
SendKeys "password", True
SendKeys "{ENTER}", True
ThisDocument.Activate
ThisDocument.Saved = True
If Application.Windows.Count = 1 Then Application.Quit
ThisDocument.Close
End Sub

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Hi all,
When it asks for username and password, excel will hold the code
execution.
It is not necessary to create a word doc to enter username and
password.(Atleast in some cases). I had similar problem.
Thru VBA, create a new instance of IE and navigate to the URL which is
asking username and password.
Next, What you need to do is to view the source of the wab page and
findout the codename of the username field and password field.(If you
have Forntpage installed, you can find it out almost instantly. In
frontpage, select normal tab, select the username field (where you will
be entering the username) and then click on the html tab. The html code
for the selected field will be highlighted. Note down the code name of
the username. Repeate the same procedure for the password.

Now, with the help of this data, you will be open the wab page without
manually entering the username and password.

I am not a expert but it works for me.
Hope it works for you also.

Regards,
Shetty.

Sharad wrote:
When it asks for username and password, excel will hold the code
execution. So no use putting code for SendKeys in excel itself.
I made simillar automation program, of checking for new data on a web
site and updating the new data in execl. This program runs 1:00 AM in
the night. What I did is
at 1:00 AM I launch a Winword document (Task Scheduler).
This winword document in it's open even launches the excel workbook
through Shell command, so that the excel application ID is known.
Allowing some time for the username and password dialog box to
appear,
winword sends username and password to the excel using AppActivate
first.

Code in Winword is somplething like this:
(In the winword document, there is a single table with single cell,
to
store the ApplicationID).

Private Sub Document_Open()
Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:02"), "OpMyWeb"
End Sub

Then the procedures are in modules as under:

Sub OpMyWeb()
Dim myIDnum As Long
myIDnum = Shell("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11
\EXCEL.EXE D:\IntraTrack\WebQuery.xls", vbNormalFocus)
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Select
Selection.Text = myIDnum
Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:10"), "EnQuer"
End Sub

So allowing 10 seconds, Procedure EnQuer runs, which is only for
clicking on 'Enable Auto Web Query'. (You may not need this, and you
can
jump to SendPass.)

Sub EnQuer()
Dim myIDnum As Long
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Select
myIDnum = Left(Selection.Text, Len(Selection.Text) - 2)
AppActivate myIDnum
SendKeys "{TAB}", True
SendKeys "{ENTER}", True
ThisDocument.Activate
Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:30"), "SendPass"
End Sub

So allowing 30 seconds for username & pwd box to appear, I run
SendPass
procedure, which sends the user name and passowrd, and then winword
document is closed.

Sub SendPass()
Dim myIDnum As Long
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Select
myIDnum = Left(Selection.Text, Len(Selection.Text) - 2)
AppActivate myIDnum
SendKeys "username", True
SendKeys "{TAB}", True
SendKeys "password", True
SendKeys "{ENTER}", True
ThisDocument.Activate
ThisDocument.Saved = True
If Application.Windows.Count = 1 Then Application.Quit
ThisDocument.Close
End Sub

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I am also interested in this. I edited the concerned webpage thrugh
frontpage and I got these lines(hope they are the relevant portions)
------
<td align="right" nowrap class="bodywhite"Yahoo! ID:</td
<td align="right"<input name="login" size="17" value=""</td
</tr
<tr
<td align="right" nowrap class="bodywhite"Password:</td
<td align="right"<input name="passwd" size="17" value=""
type="password"</td
-------------
which are the codes?
are they "login" and "passwd"
highly thankful for your claification..


Shetty wrote in message
oups.com...
Hi all,
When it asks for username and password, excel will hold the code
execution.
It is not necessary to create a word doc to enter username and
password.(Atleast in some cases). I had similar problem.
Thru VBA, create a new instance of IE and navigate to the URL which is
asking username and password.
Next, What you need to do is to view the source of the wab page and
findout the codename of the username field and password field.(If you
have Forntpage installed, you can find it out almost instantly. In
frontpage, select normal tab, select the username field (where you will
be entering the username) and then click on the html tab. The html code
for the selected field will be highlighted. Note down the code name of
the username. Repeate the same procedure for the password.

Now, with the help of this data, you will be open the wab page without
manually entering the username and password.

I am not a expert but it works for me.
Hope it works for you also.

Regards,
Shetty.

Sharad wrote:
When it asks for username and password, excel will hold the code
execution. So no use putting code for SendKeys in excel itself.
I made simillar automation program, of checking for new data on a web
site and updating the new data in execl. This program runs 1:00 AM in
the night. What I did is
at 1:00 AM I launch a Winword document (Task Scheduler).
This winword document in it's open even launches the excel workbook
through Shell command, so that the excel application ID is known.
Allowing some time for the username and password dialog box to
appear,
winword sends username and password to the excel using AppActivate
first.

Code in Winword is somplething like this:
(In the winword document, there is a single table with single cell,
to
store the ApplicationID).

Private Sub Document_Open()
Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:02"), "OpMyWeb"
End Sub

Then the procedures are in modules as under:

Sub OpMyWeb()
Dim myIDnum As Long
myIDnum = Shell("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11
\EXCEL.EXE D:\IntraTrack\WebQuery.xls", vbNormalFocus)
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Select
Selection.Text = myIDnum
Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:10"), "EnQuer"
End Sub

So allowing 10 seconds, Procedure EnQuer runs, which is only for
clicking on 'Enable Auto Web Query'. (You may not need this, and you
can
jump to SendPass.)

Sub EnQuer()
Dim myIDnum As Long
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Select
myIDnum = Left(Selection.Text, Len(Selection.Text) - 2)
AppActivate myIDnum
SendKeys "{TAB}", True
SendKeys "{ENTER}", True
ThisDocument.Activate
Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:30"), "SendPass"
End Sub

So allowing 30 seconds for username & pwd box to appear, I run
SendPass
procedure, which sends the user name and passowrd, and then winword
document is closed.

Sub SendPass()
Dim myIDnum As Long
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Select
myIDnum = Left(Selection.Text, Len(Selection.Text) - 2)
AppActivate myIDnum
SendKeys "username", True
SendKeys "{TAB}", True
SendKeys "password", True
SendKeys "{ENTER}", True
ThisDocument.Activate
ThisDocument.Saved = True
If Application.Windows.Count = 1 Then Application.Quit
ThisDocument.Close
End Sub

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YA, IT IS LOGIN AND PASSWD.
YOU CAN USE IT IN YOUR VBA CODE TO SUPPLY THE VALUES.
ALSO YOU NEED TO FIND OUOT THE CODE NAME FOR SUBMIT BUTTON TO SUBMIT
THE FROM PROGRAMATICALLY.

REGARDS,
SHETTY.

thank you Mr.shetty;. I got the code for submit also. but I do not know how
to dovetail thee codes into the vba statement

my code call the url b this statement
====
With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:= _
"URL;http://in.finance.yahoo.com/p?v&k=pf_2&d=v6",
Destination:=Range("B5"))
.Name = "p?v&k=pf_2&d=v6"
etc.
..FieldNames = True
.RowNumbers = False
.FillAdjacentFormulas = False
etc etc
yahoo sometimes call for logging in.
==================
I tried to place the following code statements in the beginning before the
above statements. that does not seem to help.

Dim login
Dim passwd
Dim submit As Boolean
login = "venkat1926"
passwd = InputBox("type password")
submit = True

thanks for all the help



Shetty wrote in message
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YA, IT IS LOGIN AND PASSWD.
YOU CAN USE IT IN YOUR VBA CODE TO SUPPLY THE VALUES.
ALSO YOU NEED TO FIND OUOT THE CODE NAME FOR SUBMIT BUTTON TO SUBMIT
THE FROM PROGRAMATICALLY.

REGARDS,
SHETTY.

Well Shetty, if username and passowrd entry is in the web page script
then these can be supplied through the VBA code (or even in the worst
case, SendKeys will also work since Excel will not hold the code
execution.)

But if the site uses windows login, a seperate dialogue box asking for
username and passowrd pops up. Here it is not possible to supply the
username and password through VBA code. Excel will hold the execeution
of code. That's when you need to use SendKeys from another application
(one of the ways, there could be better way which I would like to know.)

Since OP mentioned SendKeys I assumed that that web site uses Windows
login.

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YES, YOU ARE RIGHT.
SINCE I WAS INVOLVED IN WEB PAGE SCRIPTS IN MY CURRENT PROJECT, I
REPLIED ACCORDINGLY. I WILL ALSO SAVE YOUR PREVIOUS POST FOR REFERANCE
IN FUTURE.

IS THERE ANYWAY TO FINDOUT WEATHER IE HAS GENERATED ANY MESSAGEBOX?
I CREATE A INSTANCE OF IE AND THEN NAVIGATE TO THE REQUIRED URL WITH
USERNAME AND PASSWORD. IF THERE IS ANY ERROR, THEN IE WILL GENERATE A
MESSAGE BOX OF THE ERROR AND WILL RETURN TO THE LOGIN PAGE.
IN SUCH CASE I WOULD LIKE TO ASK USER TO AGAIN INPUT THER USERNAME AND
PASSWORD, PROGRAMATICALLY CLICK ON OK BUTTON OF MESSAGEBOX AND AGAIN
INITIATE THE LOGIN PROCESS. USER WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SEE THE ERROR
MESSAGEBOS COZ I KEPT IE HIDDEN.

REGARDS,
SHETTY.

There is no any direct way to find out if IE has generated a message box
(I am talking about Reference to MS Internet Control).

However, if you are launching IE with a URL first time, if you give
command to GoForward, it will normall generate error "Unspecified
error", if no any dialogue box is active in IE.
If a dialogue box is active in IE, then on GoForward, it gives another
error "resource is in use."

Using this, it is possible to determine if a IE has generated a dialogue
box.
Below is a sample code (Reference to MS Internet Control)
In the below code I allow 10 seconds before giving the GoForard command
and checking what error it has generated. If your site takes longer you
can adjust the number of seconds.

You can check the below code by purposefully giving wrong password.

Regards
Sharad
Sub Rediculous()
Dim IE As InternetExplorer, nCount As Long
Set IE = New InternetExplorer
IE.Navigate "Your website url"
'your code for username/pwd but give WRONG PWD to test
IE.Visible = True
'below I allow 10 seconds to load
'you can change the seconds as per your site speed
nCount = Timer
Do While Timer < nCount + 10
DoEvents
Loop

On Error Resume Next
IE.GoForward
If InStr(1, Err.Description, "resource is in use", vbTextCompare)
0 Then
'Now this means a dialog box is active in IE
AppActivate IE
'activate IE which by default activates the dailogue window
SendKeys "{ENTER}", True
' your further code to send username and pwd
End If
On Error GoTo 0
'Further code if no any dialogue box is active in IE
End Sub





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I mentioned SendKeys because I'm new at this. I guess now, I
have my work cut out for me.

Thanks all; this will get me started.
-Tim

"Sharad" wrote in message
...

Well Shetty, if username and passowrd entry is in the web page script
then these can be supplied through the VBA code (or even in the worst
case, SendKeys will also work since Excel will not hold the code
execution.)

But if the site uses windows login, a seperate dialogue box asking for
username and passowrd pops up. Here it is not possible to supply the
username and password through VBA code. Excel will hold the execeution
of code. That's when you need to use SendKeys from another application
(one of the ways, there could be better way which I would like to know.)

Since OP mentioned SendKeys I assumed that that web site uses Windows
login.

Sharad


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OK. I got my username and password field names (userName & userPassword).
From the source, <input type="image" src="images/button-login-t.gif", I
think this is the submit button. Then there is another line,

<form method="POST" action="/com.alphatrade.servlet.http.HttpLoginServlet"
target="_top" ENCTYPE="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" name="loginForm"
onsubmit="doLogin()"

that must capture the 'Login' submit button action to perform the
'doLogin()' routine.
How do I use this information to open this web page without manually
entering the login information?
-Thanks!!!

"Shetty" wrote in message
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Hi all,
When it asks for username and password, excel will hold the code
execution.
It is not necessary to create a word doc to enter username and
password.(Atleast in some cases). I had similar problem.
Thru VBA, create a new instance of IE and navigate to the URL which is
asking username and password.
Next, What you need to do is to view the source of the wab page and
findout the codename of the username field and password field.(If you
have Forntpage installed, you can find it out almost instantly. In
frontpage, select normal tab, select the username field (where you will
be entering the username) and then click on the html tab. The html code
for the selected field will be highlighted. Note down the code name of
the username. Repeate the same procedure for the password.

Now, with the help of this data, you will be open the wab page without
manually entering the username and password.

I am not a expert but it works for me.
Hope it works for you also.

Regards,
Shetty.

Sharad wrote:
When it asks for username and password, excel will hold the code
execution. So no use putting code for SendKeys in excel itself.
I made simillar automation program, of checking for new data on a web
site and updating the new data in execl. This program runs 1:00 AM in
the night. What I did is
at 1:00 AM I launch a Winword document (Task Scheduler).
This winword document in it's open even launches the excel workbook
through Shell command, so that the excel application ID is known.
Allowing some time for the username and password dialog box to
appear,
winword sends username and password to the excel using AppActivate
first.

Code in Winword is somplething like this:
(In the winword document, there is a single table with single cell,
to
store the ApplicationID).

Private Sub Document_Open()
Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:02"), "OpMyWeb"
End Sub

Then the procedures are in modules as under:

Sub OpMyWeb()
Dim myIDnum As Long
myIDnum = Shell("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11
\EXCEL.EXE D:\IntraTrack\WebQuery.xls", vbNormalFocus)
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Select
Selection.Text = myIDnum
Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:10"), "EnQuer"
End Sub

So allowing 10 seconds, Procedure EnQuer runs, which is only for
clicking on 'Enable Auto Web Query'. (You may not need this, and you
can
jump to SendPass.)

Sub EnQuer()
Dim myIDnum As Long
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Select
myIDnum = Left(Selection.Text, Len(Selection.Text) - 2)
AppActivate myIDnum
SendKeys "{TAB}", True
SendKeys "{ENTER}", True
ThisDocument.Activate
Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:30"), "SendPass"
End Sub

So allowing 30 seconds for username & pwd box to appear, I run
SendPass
procedure, which sends the user name and passowrd, and then winword
document is closed.

Sub SendPass()
Dim myIDnum As Long
ThisDocument.Tables(1).Cell(1, 1).Select
myIDnum = Left(Selection.Text, Len(Selection.Text) - 2)
AppActivate myIDnum
SendKeys "username", True
SendKeys "{TAB}", True
SendKeys "password", True
SendKeys "{ENTER}", True
ThisDocument.Activate
ThisDocument.Saved = True
If Application.Windows.Count = 1 Then Application.Quit
ThisDocument.Close
End Sub

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