I am interacting with Web page using Power shell script, Once i logged into the page i need to provide a value to the Text box, after its done, i need to press enter within that text box to start search.
$ie.document.getElementById("textbox-Input-ffd1").value = $value
can you please help how i can achieve that using power shell?
I have tried below script already and it doesn't work as expected, i need it to be specific within text box.
$myshell = New-Object -com "Wscript.Shell"
$myshell.sendkeys("{ENTER}")
Does this work for you?
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
[Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("{Enter}")
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I'm trying to automate opening a folder (maximized) selecting all files, I also need to expand all columns.
I'm able to do all those things, but I'm having a small issue, if someone could help me with it that would be great.
If I do this:
Start 'path' -WindowStyle Maximized
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
[System.Windows.Forms.sendKeys]::SendWait("^{a}")
[System.Windows.Forms.sendKeys]::SendWait("%{v}{s}{f}")
Then the alt + v + s + f is not working properly it shows up for a split second and it's gone and sf are not pressed or activated, but the ctrl + a is working good.
So to get around that I'm doing this:
$wsh = New-Object -ComObject Wscript.Shell
$wsh.AppActivate('Name of window')
$wsh.sendKeys("%{v}{s}{f}")
Now this is doing the alt + v + s + f fine but the ctrl + a becomes greyed out (by greyed out I mean the selected files are in grey instead of blue which is for actively selected files), probably because that selects the frame of window instead of the inside? I'm not sure, if I try to do a ctrl + a with Wscript it's not doing anything, so I can only do it before declaring $wsh.
And I am waiting before and after keys for a 3 seconds as well.
I'm using windows 10. But writing to be used in server 2016.
Any ideas how to fix this behavior?
Edit:
the first version is working fine on my personal laptop with windows 10 version 2004, but not working as expected on server 2016 version 1607
I have a list of Powershell scripts that perform various functions
im trying to see how i can create a GUI using those scripts .
Say like i have :
Button 1 : Disk Cleanup
Button 2 : Copy Files ( Should have a source and destination path being taken from Edit Box : meaning paths can be provided in the Text box and my scripts to take the values from that path to execute)
Button 3 : Clear History
I'm trying to use the New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button but unable to get the button to execute the script and even if it does execute first script its failing to execute second one .
Has anyone implemented this type of feature earlier ?
I want to prompt the user for a directory path.
The user can enter some text like C:\Pro in command line, tap tab button and the script should autocomplete the text toC:\Programs\ on another tab it should change the text to C:\Program Files\.
So, the script should scan folders and help user to navigate between them on typing.
Important: I can't use any GUI dialogs, because I am going to use the script on Win with no GUI.
This code will not work:
New-Object System.Windows.Forms.FolderBrowserDialog
Ummm... you don't have to? PS already does that by default?
function T
{
param
(
[System.IO.FileInfo]
$P
)
$P.FullName
}
T -P # Pressing <tab> at this stage will automatically show you the first file in your working directory. That happens even if the P was of type string.
I am kicking off a PowerShell script with UiPath. I need to pass an argument in, from UiPath. Firstly is this possible and secondly does anyone have an example of this? Not sure what the syntax is for this in the PowerShell script
Is it possible to pass arguments from UiPath to the terminal.
Your PowerShell script needs to be saved in a txt
file.(PSSampleParameters.txt)
Code sample(PSSampleParameters.txt):
Param(
[string]$computerName
)
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
[System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show($computerName)
Add a "Read Text file" activity and on filename add your PowerShell script.
Add "Invoke Power Shell" activity and be sure that you set "ContinueOnError" to True and check "IsScript"
With "Invoke power shell" activity selected go to on right panel and click on "..." button from Parameters. In the screen that will open you can add your parameters.
I have a feeling that this is a very simple fix, but whenever I try to paste into PowerShell using right-click, it automatically executes whatever it is I am trying to paste. The function is finding a computer name based on an input using AD and then copies the computer name to use in other functions. Here is the code for only the part that does the copying:
$strComputer = $output.Name
$strComputer | clip | Out-Null
So when I right-click to paste, it executes whatever $strComputer equals and obviously throws an error. Thanks!
The problem with pasting something into PowerShell (and clip.exe is very good example) is the fact, that any newline (and clip.exe used like that will add newline at the end) will trigger same reaction that you pressing enter would.
There are at least two ways around it:
paste without newlines (e.g. use [System.Windows.Clipboard]::SetText($output.Name))
if you are on v3 - use PSReadLine module and CTRL+V
For the first one - be sure to run Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationCore first - this assembly is loaded by default only in PowerShell ISE. If you are on v3+ though I would really recommend to give PSReadLine a try.
I've found an easy solution, that doesn't require any Powershell modifications.
Steps:
Type if ($true) { into the terminal.
Paste in the code-block. Because you started an if-block, but didn't provide an end-bracket for it, Powershell interprets the code-block as incomplete, and so awaits the end-bracket before running anything.
Now you can use the arrow keys to edit the code block however you want.
When you're done with your edits, add the missing } to the very end, then press enter to execute it.
Alternatively you can use the ISE, where you can paste into the Script Pane (the top half), and edit until it appears as desired, and run when you want to.