yragcom1 0 Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 OK, I'm a noob to all of this, but thanks to Seth and Aaron's videos, I'm getting up to speed! But I have a question. I'm looking to do some stuff with Yahoo Answers, but I can't seem to click the "Sign In" button/area on Yahoo, in either the Answers home page or regular home page. It must be something different than the others links, because I can click and choose those. I, of course, have chosen the attribute in a number of ways, and tried to change them as well, but I can't get the silly link to click in UBot. Even when I try to click it manually in the window, it doesn't work. Anyone got any ideas about this? What am I missing? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
webautomationlab 21 Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 Do a search on here for Yahoo. I remember people having issues with this or something similar at Yahoo a couple months ago. If you're still stuck after that, let me know and I will try to give you a hand. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yragcom1 0 Posted May 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 OK. After looking around, I found this response: If you haven't figured this one out already, change all the "change by attribute" fields to "send keys field chosen". This will simulate key strokes and it works for me. ...but that's not doing it for me either. What would be the characters I need to use to simulate a mouse click, if this is the solution? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alcr 135 Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 There is unfortunately no way to simulate a mouse click in UBot. I could check to see if I can click it if you gave me a directlink to the page. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yragcom1 0 Posted May 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 There is unfortunately no way to simulate a mouse click in UBot. I could check to see if I can click it if you gave me a directlink to the page. It's simply the link that says "Sign In" on answers.yahoo.com. I want to click it to get to the next page. Anyone got a workaround? It appears that same kind of link is on the Yahoo home page as well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alcr 135 Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 This works fine for me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yragcom1 0 Posted May 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2010 OK, now I'm confused. Please forgive my apparant ignorance at this point. When I'm changing the attributes, the only thing I have are the parameters: innertext, outertext, innerhtml, and outerhtml how did you get a parameter of "value"? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alcr 135 Posted May 16, 2010 Report Share Posted May 16, 2010 You shouldn't change the attribute Choose by attribute, valueClick Chosen Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yragcom1 0 Posted May 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 I understand that, and I misspoke. I DID choose the "choose by attribute", and this is what my parameters look like in that window: How do I get to "value"? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
alcr 135 Posted May 19, 2010 Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 This is what I'm getting when I'm right clicking the sign in button and choosing 'choose by attribute' What IE version are you running? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yragcom1 0 Posted May 19, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2010 Oops. I was using IE6. Actually, I hardly ever use it. Firefox and all that. Just installed IE8, and now the "value" shows up. Thanks for your help. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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