Excel-IE Automation w/VBA on Dynamic Tables

[firebirdta84]

Good Morning,

I’m hoping that some kind soul out there can help me with a roadblock I’ve encountered in my quest to manipulate a website with VBA. I am using MS Excel 2010 and Internet Explorer 11.0.56.

I’m somewhat comfortable with VBA but have never used it to navigate to a website, enter information and click on buttons. I’ve managed to muddle through as follows:

In Column A of my Excel spreadsheet, I have a list of 10 digit case numbers.

The code below will open IE, navigate to the desired website, pause while I log in, then navigate to the search screen, enter in the first case number and press the SEARCH button (yes, I have the case number in this example hard coded in with no looping, but that stuff I can handle so please ignore):

Sub Button_Click()
Dim objIE As Object
Set objIE = New InternetExplorerMedium
objIE.Top = 0
objIE.Left = 0
objIE.Width = 800
objIE.Height = 600
objIE.AddressBar = 0
objIE.StatusBar = 0
objIE.Toolbar = 0
objIE.Visible = True
objIE.Navigate ("https://somewebsite.com")
MsgBox ("Please log in and then press OK")
objIE.Navigate ("https://somewebsite.com/docs")
Do
DoEvents
Loop Until objIE.ReadyState = 4
objIE.Document.all("caseNumber").Value = "1234567890"
objIE.Document.getElementById("SearchButton").Click
Exit Sub
Do
DoEvents
Loop Until objIE.ReadyState = 4
MsgBox ("Done")
End Sub

That will bring me to this screen:

The file number entered in the search field will return any number of files in a dynamic table with a checkbox to the left of each file.

For this example, let’s say I am ONLY concerned with the file called “CC8” under the “Type” column. There will only ever be one instance of “CC8” for a given file number.

What I need help with is, through VBA, how do I search through this table, find the “CC8” line, and then have the checkbox to the left automatically checked?

When I inspect the “CC8” element in IE, this is the HTML associated with it (highlighted in gray; the entire table is under class “listing list-view clearfix”):

The HTML for the checkbox related to the “CC8” item is below:

The “id” for both has the same sequence of numbers, but one starts with “viewPages” and the other “doc”.

Can anyone help me out as to what I need to add to my code to get this checkbox checked? Thank you!