How to click a button on a webpage?

Scott Thorstad

Okay - here's what I'm trying to do. Our company has a report that is saved as webpage on our intranet. The webpage is a Sequel Viewpoint Web Interface report our CFO created. There are option buttons on the webpage to save the results. Clicking the Save Results button brings up a Download option that brings up a hierarchy of choices (Word, Excel, PDF, etc - see image below). I'm trying to figure out a way for our Administrative Assistant staff press one button (or run a bat file) that will open the webpage and click the buttons to open a save as window (or save to a preset location).

Currently, they have to open the page and click through the options then save it manually. I have been able to train one of them how to perform these steps but the others are not as technically adept as she is. I have attached the source for the Sequel page, if it helps. Any ideas??

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Amatya Agyey10y ago
Can you be more specific.. actually we are unaware of the series you are talking about.
Ranjit Powar10y ago
Using jquery

$("#ButtonId").click();
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan10y ago
What do you mean by "How to click a button"? Isn't that very much simple. Actually, there is no way to mimick a click action on a web page. That is because, user has to trigger these.

You can also trigger a click action, in JavaScript or jQuery:
```
$('element').trigger('click');
```
But, since you have not shared anything related to the programming side, we are unaware as to how you may be expecting an answer.