Scraping Siebel ActiveX Controls...

[caeanis]

My team supports Siebel 7.8 where the client is basically activex controls embedded in a web page in several layers of frames. I want to know if it is possible to retrieve values from specific fields within one of those controls? I have used spy to find the classname of the control in question but from there, I'm at a loss for how use that info to retrieve the values. Screen Scraping using httpwebrequest doesn't get the data I'm looking for. Is it possible to use findwindow api's to pull the data?

[Setter]

Some of our users have been extremely effective in using VB and the controls exposed in the SSJANNA module.

Examples are they read data elements, validate values and also write back to Siebel UI with other data. This has also been used to control navigation and move to other areas in Siebel. This has been used on versions 7.0, 7.7 and 8.0 using the thin HI client mode.

Some uses have also colored fields with alternative colors to highlight to users, actions needed to be taken.

 

Add the Siebel Type 1.0 Library to the VB references.

Then you have access to the SiebelAxClientLib

Use the SSJannaList Class to access lists, and forms etc.

 

Hope this helps.

[caeanis]

That is great! Thanks for the tip! I don't suppose you might have a snippet of code that demonstrates how they access a particular list do you? I'm trying to find an API guide that will show me how to find the particular control I want to get data from. Not sure if I have to access the control down through a rigid dom or whether I can directly access the list once I have it's handle or id or whatever.