Internet Explorer Support

ker_01 · Guest

Please feel free to point me to a more appropriate newsgroup if necessary.
Using IE6 on WinXP.

We have multiple IT systems that serve internal data via intranet web pages.
I'm using a screen capture program to create demos/training, but the data is
live in our systems- we can't put in fake data (fake orders, fake people,
etc.) because that would affect production and summary statistics, headcount
statistics, etc. My short-term solution is to export screen captures to a
graphics program, overwrite confidential data, then import it back into our
screen capture program to create our animated system demos. That's a lot of
non-value added work.

It seems to me there has to be a way to write scripting for IE that would
allow an on-the-fly seach and replace of text before rendering a web page to
the screen. So for example, if I decide to use Joe Manager's area, I could
have the script set up to automatically intercept all instances of "Joe
Manager" (with regex?) and replace it with "Anonymous Manager".

I'm imaging a list of seach/replace terms- so I could navigate the pages
manually first, identify each name, customer name, evaluation score, etc.
and add them to my seach/replace list with a fake value. The script would
have to load that file and use it. Underlying HTML links would remain as-is;
just the rendered/visible text would need to change.

When active, the script would allow normal browsing of the system, and
transparently replace the values so that I could just capture my demo
material without having to do a lot of image editing.

Is there anything like this already in existence?
If not, can anyone give me pointers on what I need to learn quickly to get
something like this up and running?

Many, many thanks-
Keith

rob^_^ · Guest

Hi,

Don't you have a development version of your production applications? No
Worlds best production standards?

Usually documentation is produced from the testing or the development
environment that closely mimics actual production data. You should be able
to use your testing environment to set up new accounts and managers, print
reports and the like without effecting your production environment.

There are no utilities to change the values of web page data through search
and replace. Browsers stop these sort of addons to stop the theft of
sensitive data entered on web pages.

What you could try is a Form Filler Addon, such as RoboForm, that will fill
your web forms with pre-determined values that you will be able to use over
and over again without much typing, however you still would not want to do
this on a production system.

Regards.

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