btw...I'm grabbing the full Zip of the provided address from the usps site, since Medicare has decided it wants all 9 digits and not just the original 5.
Brian Bennett Affinity Health Systems Systems Analyst PBS\Clinic Billing (920)628-9055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 7:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Talk] Web Interaction Greetings, The reason why leaving the address off completely didn't work is because what your view retrieved was the contents of a <TD> somewhere above the address line. The web "viewing" command works by looking for an element on the page that matchs the criteria you specify by scanning down a list of the elements. So when you removed the address, it found the first thing that matched what you were asking for. I'm not exactly following what you're looking up on the USPS site - let me know and I can solve this pretty quickly and post it to the website for others. As an aside, setting: Timeout=value would cause the script to generate an error of seTimeout that could be caught if the script couldn't find what you were asking it to read. All web commands behave this way (click, text setting, text reading) since they have to see if the element really exists (page has loaded) before they actually do anything. Regards, Thom Thom C. Blackwell Product Manager Boston Software Systems (866) 653-5105 ex 807 www.bossoft.com <http://www.bossoft.com/> Sign <http://www.bostonworkstation.com/customer_center/special_events.aspx> up for my weekly webinar! LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately, then delete this message and empty from your trash. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Stevenson Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Talk] Web Interaction Would using a timer be somewhat beneficial to you? I suppose you could start the timer and if say a min. or so later nothing has happened then you could initiate your own code to stop what you are doing and move on to another search.... Brian Stevenson | Systems Administrator <http://www.universityhealthsystem.com/> University Health System | Business Information Services 355-2 Spencer Lane | San Antonio, TX 78229 Office | (210) 358 - 9282 Pager | (210) 756 - 0582 _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bennett, Brian Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 7:27 AM To: '[email protected]' Subject: [Talk] Web Interaction Being a glutton for punishment (or not know when to say N.O.) I've stated that I can update our location dictionary with correct address information. This means connecting to the usps.gov website and "attempting" to interact with it. Everything was going so smoothly, until I went to the next record. If I could avoid D.Next_ so many problems would be self resolving. :) Here's the problem the TEXT location that I need to view changes for each record. I.e. TEXT ("123 my Street*<TD>@USPS - ZIP Code Lookup - Find a ZIP + 4 Code By Address Results") and then TEXT("456 yours Ave*<TD>@USPS - ZIP Code Lookup - Find a ZIP + 4 Code By Address Results") Leaving off the street address renders the F("V?") = TEXT (whatever) useless. I thought I had it figured out by using F("V?")= TEXT(D("3") & "*<TD>@USPS - ZIP Code Lookup - Find a ZIP + 4 Code By Address Results") 'Since D("3") is my street address But NOOOOO, Human nature (being what it is) causes me many headaches. Misspell a word, or leave something as little as a W,E,S or N off the street name and the script sits there for ever and a day. Is there a wildcard that could be used in place of D("3")? Or if anyone is bored, perhaps you can help me figure out what would work? I've pretty much viewed every element on the page. As far as I can tell, with out the street address it does not view the text. So in the end it would look like: F("V?") = TEXT( ANYTEXT & "*<TD>@USPS - ZIP Code Lookup - Find a ZIP + 4 Code By Address Results") 'Since the results would be the same. Thanks p.s. F("V?") = TEXT("*<TD>@USPS - ZIP Code Lookup - Find a ZIP + 4 Code By Address Results") ' Reads no text off the page. Brian Bennett Affinity Health Systems Systems Analyst PBS\Clinic Billing (920)628-9055 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
