Script to Make Changes into a Text Box

[peter quitzgard]

Hello, I'm trying to create a script which do the next:

1- Tab loads ends.

2- Condition>Whole URL>does>match exactly>https://testpages.eviltester.com/styled/basic-html-form-test.htmlest.com/1234/

3- Run Script.

The script should do the next:

1- Make focus into the text box (TextArea Comment:).

2- Delete "nts" out of the prefilled "Comments..." word.

3- Position the cursor at determined location. Let's say 

between the "o" and the "m".

4- Insert any given text snippet.

To start the chain, I tried with different values, including this one:

document.getElementById("//form[@id='HTMLFormElements']//table/tbody[1]/tr[3]/td[1]/textarea[1]").focus();

But I couldn't find the way to make focus into that text box.

Thanks.

[peter quitzgard]

Errata:

do > does

Correct website: https://testpages.eviltester.com/styled/basic-html-form-test.html

[AutoControl support]

The attached file has a working example.

[peter quitzgard]

Your example script is correct, and I'm trying to use it as a basis for automating

a few similar actions in other website. The thing is, I would need to perform the task,

according to the specific values I'm getting from the target website. The tasks I'm trying

to do are basically these:

1- After a tab finishes loading.

2- Find and delete a predefined text portion, which will always

get prefilled, into a text box.

3- Add a predefined text, at a specific position into the box.

I think the fixed text portion to delete as well as the one to add, could be

conditioned by the appearance of some specific elements, but I'm not sure

whether if they should get located by its exact text value, or rather their

exact locations. The text to delete should be erased wherever position it

appears into the text box, and the text to add will always have to be in a

fixed position, next to a specific character. I could show you a video with

the details, or just pass you the login data (privately) of the website, so you

cab try it.

Thanks.

[AutoControl support]

No need to reveal private information. A video or a few screenshots are enough.

[peter quitzgard]

Alright, this is what will be shown, after a "preview" refresh:

https://postimg.cc/sBFy3jPC

That's a graphical table with information, which the website fills

with the next text after the first "preview":

[center]* Items in [b]bold[/b] are required or strongly preferred.[/center]

============= Additional Comments =============

It won't appear anymore in next previews, after I delete it manually.

The text box's "ID" is "message". That's a "phpBB" forum website.

[AutoControl support]

This should do it:

let TEXT_INSERT = "Hello, world!" ; let txtareaElem = document.querySelector('#message') txtareaElem.value = txtareaElem.value.replace(/img\}/, 'img}'+TEXT_INSERT).replace(/\[center.+=====/s, '')

[peter quitzgard]

OK, that works fine, but there is still two little details that maybe could be fixed:

1- There is a remaining empty line between the "}" and the "[". They should

be one below the other in their own lines.

https://postimg.cc/F7J8v7mr

2- The added text snippet will keep getting added after each page preview.

By the way, is it possible to use wildcards/regex with the "URL" triggers?

[AutoControl support]

This should fix both issues:

let TEXT_INSERT = "Hello, world!" ; let txtareaElem = document.querySelector('#message') txtareaElem.value = txtareaElem.value.replace(/img\}\{\//, 'img}'+TEXT_INSERT+'{/').replace(/\[center.+=====\n*/s, '')

 

By the way, is it possible to use wildcards/regex with the "URL" triggers?

URL conditions do not support regular expressions given that it's a highly technical mechanism that would confuse and frustrate most people. AutoControl prioritizes ease of use.

You can use the RUN SCRIPT action in combination with ACtl.STOP_FULL_SEQ in order to prevent an action from executing depending on any condition that you can express with Javascript.

[peter quitzgard]

Alright, that did the trick, thanks a lot.

One last thing, some days ago, while trying a few actions (for a unique website),

I had a weird problem, which took me sometime to realize its cause. Basically,

after importing such actions into another PCs browser, they weren't working

as expected, but very erratically. The thing is, those actions were already tested and

I knew they were working rightly; moreover, I had around a previous set of similar actions

which I tested on that same PC, and they were working fine, but they also were working

erratically after being loaded that time. I tried them in a one by one basis, and they were working,

but not when the actions' chain was triggered.  I wasn't sure why said actions suddenly wouldn't

work, so I tried with the "Emergency repair" option, which didn't help neither. So, I decided to try the

same actions' sets using another fresh browser, and they were working rightly there. So, under such

circumstances, I finally realized the only solution could be restarting the main browser I was using;

and indeed, that was the solution.

I couldn't reproduce the error, but was wondering if do you have some kind of "debug" version,

that I could use for testing purposes only, in case this issue repeats again in the future?

[AutoControl support]

There's no generic debug version that can be used to debug all possible problems. Each problem requires its own ad-hoc investigation.

If the actions that were failing included one or more scripts, then it's possible that the script interfered with itself after being injected in the page multiple times (scripts may have persistent side effects in the page). In such cases, you can reload the page in order to wipe out all scripts in that page.

[peter quitzgard]

I'm %99 sure the erratic behavior wasn't due to the scripts' action chain, since I was already

using them, and they were working rightly, even on different systems. It was something triggered

after I replaced those actions, with the updated ones. I remember the extension having problems

to identify exactly where to run, since I was testing the actions on a "incognito" window, and while

trying to test a specific action running it from the script itself (after choosing the exact tab), the

action was executed on the extension's tab itself. I also remember the target website reloading

itself constantly, after triggering the last actions of the chain; I had to stop the looping refresh with

the "escape" key. It seems there were specific actions which would cease to work, and stop the

whole chain, but when I try them individually, they were working rightly.

I will keep trying it, and tell you about in case anything else which can be reproduced somehow

shows up.

Thanks.