Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Fri Sep 10 06:00:37 CDT 2010
I did exactly the same with an application by a paint manufacturer for mixing paints a few years ago using AutoIt. Same result. -- Stuart On 10 Sep 2010 at 8:54, Gustav Brock wrote: > Hi John > > In Visual Studio you have a native browser object which allows you to > read the page, input data, and call JavaScript functions of the page. > > It works very well. For fun I made a test once to "hack" an entry key > to a (non-essential) page where the key could be from 0000 to 9999. A > simple loop that checked if the confirming page or an error page was > showed after the entry. It was cracked in a couple of minutes. > > /gustav > > > >>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 09-09-2010 20:32 >>> > Ken, > > I guess I wasn't clear. The web site is from the state of > Pennsylvania. I didn't write it, nor do I get any input. > > So I get no input on the right way. The bottom line is all I need is > to send them a CSV or similar file. But they don't even accept that. > Nope, every person in the state who wants to enter data into their > system gets to spend hours every week poking data into a web form. > THOUSANDS of man hours monthly across the state, I am sure. > > This is the front end to being paid by the state of PA for all > therapists and agencies that wish to bill the state for services to > children (and maybe just services generally). > > Do you get a clue why medical costs are so high in this retarded > place? > > Now for the wrong way. Yep, it sucks but it has to be better than > click / click / paste / repeat for hours on end. And my app is at > least SOMEWHAT automated. I am sure most are manually TYPING the data > into the state form. > > Asking thousands of people to enter their specific 10 pieces of > information into 200 controls on a "one size fits all" web page, doing > this over and over for hundreds of billing records every week is > asinine! > > Do I sound irritated? That would be because I AM irritated. > Stupidity irritates me. > > 8( > > Or maybe this is PA's equivalent of a "full employment" plan, to keep > people off welfare? > > ;) > > All of this data is in my database. I could just press a button, dump > it to CSV file and email it or FTP it to the state, but no, my client > hires people for hours every week to manually enter this into PA's web > page. > > Sigh! > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >