Dynamic Webelement Value

[Novemberrain81]

Hello all. I am trying to work on a practice project.
I am working with finance.yahoo.com I have the following code

Code:

systemutil.Run "iexplore.exe","finance.yahoo.com"

Browser("micclass:=Browser").Page("micclass:=Page").WebEdit("html tag:= INPUT","type:=text","name:=s","value:=Enter Symbol").Set "NFLX"

Browser("micclass:=Browser").Page("micclass:=Page").WebButton("html tag:= INPUT","name:= Look Up","type:= Submit","Value:=Look Up","html id:=btnQuotes").Click

After this I am trying to get the outertext value from the Last Closing Price, which is an webelement and the biggest text size.
Now my questions...if the webelements dynamic I can get the value using hard coded property values. However I have a whole bunch of stock symbols I am reading in from excel which is within a for loop. And the required property values for the webelement chages with every iteration of the for loop. So how do I deal with this?
Webtable will not work as this webelement is not within a webtable. If it was, I would simply use getcelldata.
I am also attaching a file with a little description.
PS I am practice with Static Descriptive programming as of right now.
Thank you in advance for any help.

[GregHicks]

hi

thanks for posting your code and your problem with the screen that you are working with.

A suggestion to help resolve dynamic fields is to use the object inspector to probe the objects, you may discover that there is a consistent property that can be used. Would you mind trying that and sending the screen grab so we can engage on the properties in the object?

hear from you soon.

[Parke]

novemberrain81:

'' using finance.yahoo.com
' You needed to look in the source code.

Code:

' the field appears to have an html id value = "yfs_l84_symbol", where symbol is nflx, ibm or....
'symbol = "IBM"
symbol = "NFLX"
browserName = symbol&": .*"
pageTitle = symbol&": .*"

Set oDesc =description.Create()
oDesc("micclass").value = "WebElement"
oDesc("html tag").value = "span"
oDesc("html id").value = "yfs_l84_"&LCase(symbol)

Set oAll = browser("name:="&browserName).page("title:="&pageTitle).childObjects(oDesc)
cnt = oAll.count
print "count = " & cnt

For  i = 0 to oAll.count - 1
    'If oAll.item(i).GetROProperty("html id") = "yfs_l84_nflx" Then
    If oAll.item(i).GetROProperty("html id") = "yfs_l84_"&LCase(symbol) Then
        print oAll.item(i).GetROProperty("html id") & " :: " & oAll.item(i).GetROProperty("outertext")
    End If
    'print oAll.item(i).GetROProperty("html id") & " :: " & oAll.item(i).GetROProperty("outertext")
Next

Results:
count = 1
yfs_l84_ibm :: 186.13
count = 1
yfs_l84_nflx :: 309.17

hth,

Parke