Let us say that you have some product specifications stored on your intranet, and your paranoid network administrator requires authentication – the PNA was kind enough to provide a generic read only login.

You want to make life easy for your users, from MMS001 you want to press a button which will launch IE so you can see the product specifications seamlessly – automatically logging in. In this example, I am purely going to provide the authentication information, but you could potentially have the site choose a specific product or whatever you want.

One of the nice things about Internet Explorer is that it is just like MS Office, it’s COM enabled, so we can launch and control it through scripts or external programs.

In order to provide the log in information we need to determine the input box names for the Username and Passwords. You would also want to retrieve the Login button aswell in a real world example.

So below is what the login page looks like

Taking a look at the markup for this page, we see that the Username has an id of Login1_UserName. Password is Login1_Password.

And the script itself

import System;
import System.Windows;
import System.Windows.Controls;
import MForms;

package MForms.JScript
{
	class ieTest
	{
		public function Init(element: Object, args: Object, controller : Object, debug : Object)
		{
			 var content : Object = controller.RenderEngine.Content;
			 
			 // create the com object
			 var IEApp = new ActiveXObject("InternetExplorer.Application");
			 // make sure it is visible
			 IEApp.Visible = true;
			 
			 // navigate to the website (be aware, it may take time to load!)
			IEApp.Navigate("https://go.potatoit.com/potatoit/view/DocumentView.aspx?libraryProcessGroupId=-1&tagId=-1&specialCase=AllTag");
			
			// retrieve the document with all of the controls and content
			var doc = IEApp.Document;
			// find and populate the password field which we determined was called "Login1_Password"
			doc.getElementByID("Login1_Password").value = "potatoit" 
			// find and populate the user field which we determined was called "Login1_Username"
			doc.getElementByID("Login1_Username").value = "potatoit" 
		}
	}
}

Be aware that if you transition through different IE security zones and you have Protected Mode on, you won’t have access to the markup document in IE, so you won’t be able to submit your information.