Trigged / Set Response On A Webpage

[Apex]

OK be gentle with me on this I am no coder just the guy the people go to

I've just had a enq passed to me from a work colleague,

They have a internal system that formats data and sends it to them, this is displayed in a simple web page http://site.site.com kinda thing ( not sure what is driving the back end yet ) they double click this entry that then displays the data.

There is a text box that they fill details in, like name and so on, this is very time consuming and can leed to bad data creeping in, they also have to put in a set response ( one of three currently ) into this text box.

The enq is, would it be possible to code it so that when they have done the double click to open the document / view the data that pressing say F1 / F2 / F3 ( or other key combo say alt + 1 )would paste all the details in and the standard response to the text box.

Did think about auto complete but this only keeps the data for that session.

The site looks like it's a internal site but looked after by a thirdparty

They are hoping this is possible so that;

Reduces the number of key strokes needed to complete the response
Reduces the chance of a bad response being given or differences creeping in
Makes it so that a uniform response is given

[Jay]

you could use a function to do this I think.

[Apex]

Found something that is close to what they need

http://3d2f.com/screenshot/1-002-aut...reenshot.shtml

close but not close enough

[scaryjim]

I'm pretty sure this would be possible but without knowing the technical details of the site and *actually looking at it* I can't tell you how.

Frankly, if this system is hosted / supported by a third party that's who they should be speaking to in the first instance. If the hosting / supporting company can't handle it, then I'd suggest your company needs to look at moving the system away from them...

[Apex]

Maybe am looking at this in a too technical nature,

A simple program that runs on the pc and when detects a certain key press alt + 1 f1 and so on just pastes some text to what ever text box is on the screen ?

[scaryjim]

How about they have a text document with the appropriate text in and copy and paste it? That's the least technical way to make sure you get exactly the same information into a text box, after all. Although I don't really understand what the point of doing that would be - if they put exactly the same information into this web page every time they look at it why isn't the back-end system already set up to have that information in it?

I think you're trying to solve the wrong problem, tbh...

[Apex]

I think your right, but they are kinda insisting that they want to just press and key and it will enter the data they want

[TAKTAK]

What about using a macro: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863

i.e. macro 1 produces out put of "blargh text this is the text that you wanted bleurgh"
macro 2 produces out put of "bleurgh i like pandas"

[Apex]

Nice, sadly i very much doubt i can get them to move from IE6 - it's the company standard.

[TAKTAK]

Nice, sadly i very much doubt i can get them to move from IE6 - it's the company standard.

http://www.autohotkey.com/ ?

can be setup to a keyboard shortcut and input text when the shortcut is enacted

e.g.

the following hotkey would create an empty e-mail message and prepare it for a certain type recipient, allowing you to personalize it prior to sending:

^!s:: ; Control+Alt+S hotkey.
IfWinNotExist Inbox - Microsoft Outlook
return ; Outlook isn't open to the right section, so do nothing.
WinActivate ; Activate the window found by the above command.
Send ^n ; Create new/blank e-mail via Control+N.
WinWaitActive Untitled Message
Send {Tab 2}Product Recall for ACME Rocket Skates ;
Send {Tab}Dear Sir or Madam,{Enter 2}We have recently discovered a minor defect ... ;
return ; This line serves to finish the hotkey.

all you would need is:

^!s:: ; Control+Alt+S hotkey.
Send Product Recall for ACME Rocket Skates ; Set the subject line.
Send Dear Sir or Madam,{Enter 2}We have recently discovered a minor defect ... ; etc.
return ;

[Apex]

You are a bloody genius

[TAKTAK]

You are a bloody genius

Nope, just enlightened in the art of advanced google-fu

[scaryjim]

Still sounds like you're solving the wrong problem to me ( ) but kudos to TAKTAK for that find

[Apex]

Just hope it can fill in the extras they are wanting, they have now presented me with the data and "extras" they want like the current time and date entered into the box - some how i can see this running and running...

[Apex]

Still sounds like you're solving the wrong problem to me ( ) but kudos to TAKTAK for that find

I know but that's for another day

[TAKTAK]

Just hope it can fill in the extras they are wanting, they have now presented me with the data and "extras" they want like the current time and date entered into the box - some how i can see this running and running...

there will probably be a time and date variable that you could use if you have a look through the documentation, such as

send {currentTime};
send {currentDate};

etc

or you could add it to the formatting, e.g.

send the current time is {currentTime};

and so on, and so forth