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How to jump from one field to the next on a web page from a VB String
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Jerry Merrill
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I have ten fields on a third party web page that I want to fill using a String placed on the clipboard.
I tried using vbTab to tab from one field to the next, but when I pasted the long string into the field,
everything was output into that one field. What would I use to jump to the next field instead of vbTab?
partOne = fullTNtext + vbTab + "Family History Library" + vbTab + usrName + vbTab + "MS"
partTwo = vbTab + dateTime + vbTab + vbTab + dateTime + vbTab + vbTab + imageChr
partTree = vbTab + usrName + vbTab + dateTime + vbTab + vbTab + dateTime
clipText = partOne + partTwo + partTree
Clipboard.SetText(clipText)
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Xingyu Zhao-MSFT 5,381 Reputation points2021-08-06T02:16:21.487+00:00 Hi @Jerry Merrill ,
What's the type of your application?
You cannot use 'Clipboard' to jump from one field to the next.
Could you provide more details about your web page? -
Jerry Merrill 1 Reputation point
2021-08-06T15:47:26.877+00:00 It is more or less a data entry application. I get a TitleNumber (TN) from the ClipBoard. I get a preFix, usrName and imageCount from a VB screen. The logic adds standard values for two other fields and date/time for four fields. I want to string this all together and put it on ClipBoard.Text so that the user can then go to the first of ten fields, hit Ctl-v and have all ten fields filled in.
I have no access to the design or logic of the web page.
I am able to paste ClipBoard.Text into a Word page. Everything, including tab characters, looks as desired. So the browser must be converting the vbTab's to spaces... Is there some other kind of tab-keystroke that would not be converted to a space???
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Xingyu Zhao-MSFT 5,381 Reputation points
2021-08-09T02:50:13.617+00:00 Hi @Jerry Merrill ,
the browser must be converting the vbTab's to spaces
Do you want to use ' '?
A reference you may need: When to use   -
Jerry Merrill 1 Reputation point
2021-08-10T00:42:45.89+00:00 I need tab-character to jump from field to field on a data entry form web page.
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Xingyu Zhao-MSFT 5,381 Reputation points
2021-08-10T06:24:57.87+00:00 Hi @Jerry Merrill ,
Thanks for your feedback.jump from field to field
Could you provide a sample or more details of this? It will help us make a test.
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Viorel 126.1K Reputation points2021-08-10T09:42:28.8+00:00 Maybe you can ask the authors of the third-party application to support this useful feature. It can be probably done in JavaScript by intercepting the Paste event.
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