I'm inputting text in a texbox which is working fine. But there is an existing watermark in the textbox. The entered text in the textbox is inputted as a watermark, hence clicking on 'Next' button results in an error.
Can somebody help on how to enable textfield before entering text using Blue Prism tool?
Can you sandkey event(like SAPCE key) into that field it may cause the watermark to clear it self?
How do you clear that filed in the first palce?
quoting directly from the browser automation guide which you should've read and consumed before being a developer:
Using a Write stage to write to an HTML element such as a text field
does not always work properly. For example, you might try writing to a
username field, only to see a message appear on the web site saying
something like “Please enter a username”, even though you can see that
the value has been correctly written to the field. This can happen
because the data validation functions used by the web form might be
expecting keystrokes, and the write stage has “fooled” it. To get
around this, you will need to use a Navigate stage to call the Send
Keys Action instead of using a Write stage. Some websites have maximum
character limits imposed on some text fields. Using a Write stage can
sometimes fool the website into allowing too many characters into the
field, because the Write stage “sets” the field value rather than
keying characters into it. This is important to bear in mind because
if a field has been filled with more characters than the website would
usually allow, the website could produce an error when you try to
submit or post the data.
to get around this go ahead and use sendkeys, those are likely the best option to push past this validation tool issue on the website.
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I have a form built in Kentico and want to change the form action to point to a marketing automation vendor website (eloqua) to process the form. I noticed that there's no way to change the Action on the Form app, so I thought of using js to replace the action dynamically. I'm not sure whether it'll work, but another immediate problem I have is the field name/id generated by Kentico is so long (> 70 characters - e.g. p$lt$ctl02$pageplaceholder$p$lt$ctl03$On_lineForm$viewBiz$Company$txtText) and exceeds the length allowed by the vendor. Is there a way to shorten those names/ids?
To clarify, the reason I need to edit the name because the vendor allows to map (copy/paste) html name to whatever name it's using. I've tried pasting the whole string from one Kentico field and got the error message of exceeding character limit.
First part of the question, how do i direct a form to submit to another site?
In ASP.Net, the only way is to use javascript to alter the 's action url. Since you want to be careful where you edit this, i would use jQuery to replace the "Submit" button on your form with a javascript function that will alter the form before submission (so you don't mess up other postbacks)
$("button.MySubmitButton").click(function() {
$("form").attr("action", "http://TheVendor.com/PostLocation");
});
Next question is to alter the field names. If you absolutely MUST have form element IDs sub 70 characters, you will have to use Javascript again and it will break any postback-related functionality of the elements, so make sure the form is "as is" before doing it.
Again there is security concern because when you post to another location, you are sending ALL the data, including hidden asp.net inputs that contain viewstates and the like. You may want to take the time to 'eliminate' right before you submit any field that you don't want sent to the other site.
Something like this (Test it out a bit first though)
$("input:not(id*='txtName'):not(id*='txtEmail'),select:not(id*='ddlQuestion')").remove();
As #trevor-j-fayas points out, you can use javascript to point a form action to another url. While this does work you may end up writing a lot of javascript to not only point the form to a new url but also to do some data massaging (changing id's, doing url formatting, etc) before sending it to the target.
Additionally you lose some of the benefits of using a Kentico Form because the data never actually gets submitted back to Kentico such as email alerts.
I have worked in a similar scenario where were we sending data to Eloqua but instead of doing it client side we did it from the server by using either:
The OnOnAfterSave event on the BizForm control itself
The global BizForm submit hook BizFormInfo.TYPEINFO.Events.Insert.After
After the form is submitted to Kentico, our custom hook code runs which sends the data to Eloqua. In either hook you can fully access the Form metadata, field names, and submitted values. You can then craft an HTTP POST request and submit it asynchronously using a class such as HttpClient.
Is not a good idea from the architecture stand point and most likely not going to work without opening a huge hole in their vendor web site security. First of all how are they going to process the from if they don't know the field names, what if form fields change etc. Secondly you going to run into hell of trouble trying to submit form one site to another etc. What if the vendor site is not responding etc.
What you need to do is submit the form back to kentico web site i.e. process it on kentico web site and send email notification with results to marketing automation vendor website (the easy way for now) and redirect user to vendor web site.
Redirection and email - you can do out of the box without any programming. Actually to do all the above requires no programming and you get all the information recorded on your Kentico site.
Whenever I save or create a node of a certain user-defined type, I am back in the edit window instead of switching to the first tab labeled view. All my fields (body, title etc. are as they were and no message appears, neither directly on the page nor in the watchdog database log. The validation is working, though, because I see those 'required' messages as soon as I try to save without Title for example.
The strange thing is that when I create a new content type, or use the predefined story and page types, I can edit and create nodes. In the latter case, Drupal answers with an 302 redirect, whereas with the proplematic content types, only a 200 HTTP status is returned.
The issue doesn't seem to be related to either JavaScript (on or off, no difference), Browser (tried Chrome and Firefox) or WYSIWYG (used input formats with and without).
I'm using Drupal 6.22 and the CCK. I have about 7 content types, some of them with fields. I am not using Rules, but a multitude of modules, all of which are up-to-date. I will post a list if this issue can't be solved otherwise.
I have spend the last hours trying to figure this out, both by looking at my installation (settings, database) and by searching Google & Co.
Any ideas?
The situation appeared because Drupal translated both the Upload and the Save button to one word, Speichern. The FileField issue tracker contains the corresponding thread: http://drupal.org/node/684426
The ImageField and Locale modules, along with a language such as German or Finnish were partly responsible for the trouble.
In some website for which I have access, there are some input fields. In the sixth field I need to enter some input string from a list of 10000 strings, then a new page appears, for which I would just need to count the number of lines. Finally I would like to get a table with two columns like input string and number of resulting lines. Since I have to manually enter the info for all the different 10000 strings, I wonder therefore what is the best approach to enter a string into a generic formular field and get the resulting text. I heard about curl but I am not sure whether this is the easiest one.
P.S.
Example of interactive way: I type some string o words into google search and then I get a new page with the search results. Previously I have introduced my google username and password, so the results will be probably filtered according to my profile.
Example of non-interactive way: A script somehow introduces my user information, search query and saves to some text file the search results. Imagine the same idea but for a more complicated website like this.
What you want to do is to send a HTTP POST with specific data. This can be done with any proper HTTP client code, and one such is libcurl (or the pycurl binding or even using the curl command line tool). On the response from the post, you probably get a redirect and then the results, or you need to do a separate request for the results and then you're done and go back to do the next POST. Repeat until all POSTs are done.
What you may need to take into account is that you may have to deal with cookies and possibly to follow a redirect from the POST. A good approach is to record a "manual session" as done with a browser (use firebug or LiveHTTPHeaders etc) and then use that recording to help you repeat the same thing with a HTTP client.
A decent tutorial to get some starting up details on this kind of work can be found here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/httpscripting.html
You could also use JMeter to run all the posts. You may use the CSV input to set the 10000 strings. Then you save the result as xml and extract the necessary data.
I have an ASP.NET form which has textbox. The user can enter any characters,numbers etc. I should not restrict the user to filter hazardous characters. But I need to prevent cross site scripting.
The user can enter any text like alert('hi') like this.
The data should be saved as its in DB. Also it should be return back and display in label in form as it is.
How can acheive this without cross site scripting
Well, I think you should consider some restriction on what users are allowed to enter. You don't want null bytes or non-printable characters do you? Even if you accept more than alphanumeric values, you should decide which characters are allowed and exclude the rest using a simple regular expression (with start and end anchors of course).
Then, the way to prevent XSS is to encode the value whenever you display it. There are a whole host of ways to do this, but using the AntiXSS class of the Microsoft Web Protection Library is the best if you ask me. You can encode the output based on whether you're rendering it within HTML elements, attributes, JavaScript, and so on.
HI all,
I am creating a timesheep app and I have five colums that can contain hours worked. When the user enters a new form how do I check to see if at least one of the columns contains data. I must admit I am not a developer just a Sharepoint/Sharepoint designer hack so be nice. Thanks
Glenn Thibeault
The only bullet-proof way would be to create a SharePoint event receiver using C# (lots of examples on the web).
I'm not really sure how you could accomplish this with SPD.
If you don't want to write any C# code, that really only leaves JavaScript. It will still take development work (this is a programming site after all). You could probably take advantage of SPUtility.js (full disclosure, this is a library I maintain).
The basic steps would be:
Edit your NewForm.aspx and add a Content Editor web part
Inside the Content Editor web part, write your JavaScript:
Attach a new onClick handler to the NewForm.aspx's "OK" buttons
Use SPUtility's GetValue method to get the value of your 5 fields, validate one has a value, and display a message if invalid