js231
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Post by js231 on Sept 22, 2018 10:19:35 GMT
I’m currently trying to add investments to my Manual loans account. I’d like to allocate eg £100 to each new loan paying 7% or higher. I think there was talk of this sort of thing being automated ? Maybe I’m missing something but clicking on each loan, typing the amount and clicking about 3 confirmation buttons is getting tedious.. If there’s an easier way, can someone let me know ?
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ceejay
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Post by ceejay on Sept 22, 2018 13:38:16 GMT
I’m currently trying to add investments to my Manual loans account. I’d like to allocate eg £100 to each new loan paying 7% or higher. I think there was talk of this sort of thing being automated ? Maybe I’m missing something but clicking on each loan, typing the amount and clicking about 3 confirmation buttons is getting tedious.. If there’s an easier way, can someone let me know ? There is talk, but nothing released yet. For now, just keep clicking the buttons.
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bigfoot12
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Post by bigfoot12 on Sept 22, 2018 15:43:07 GMT
I’m currently trying to add investments to my Manual loans account. I’d like to allocate eg £100 to each new loan paying 7% or higher. I think there was talk of this sort of thing being automated ? Maybe I’m missing something but clicking on each loan, typing the amount and clicking about 3 confirmation buttons is getting tedious.. If there’s an easier way, can someone let me know ? I'd expect that there is some way of programming a key to send 100 followed by 7 tabs, an enter, 3 tabs, an enter , 2 tabs and an enter. I just tried a couple of ways and failed. I'm sure I used to do something like that to cancel all my sales on FC - it was easier on more old fashioned websites. (I tried 100<tab><tab> etc and 100\t\t\t etc but neither worked, nor did programming a function key.) You could try selenium, but that is probably more effort than it is worth if this is a one off, but a useful skill/tool to acquire. There must be lots of tools for this. I have never used Prokeys but it seems to be a plugin for Chrome that does this sort of thing. Windows might have a built in function for this sort of thing. If you want an API make sure you ask chris, and others at AC.
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nick
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Post by nick on Sept 25, 2018 22:21:44 GMT
I’m currently trying to add investments to my Manual loans account. I’d like to allocate eg £100 to each new loan paying 7% or higher. I think there was talk of this sort of thing being automated ? Maybe I’m missing something but clicking on each loan, typing the amount and clicking about 3 confirmation buttons is getting tedious.. If there’s an easier way, can someone let me know ? I'd expect that there is some way of programming a key to send 100 followed by 7 tabs, an enter, 3 tabs, an enter , 2 tabs and an enter. I just tried a couple of ways and failed. I'm sure I used to do something like that to cancel all my sales on FC - it was easier on more old fashioned websites. (I tried 100<tab><tab> etc and 100\t\t\t etc but neither worked, nor did programming a function key.) You could try selenium, but that is probably more effort than it is worth if this is a one off, but a useful skill/tool to acquire. There must be lots of tools for this. I have never used Prokeys but it seems to be a plugin for Chrome that does this sort of thing. Windows might have a built in function for this sort of thing. If you want an API make sure you ask chris , and others at AC. You should look at Autohotkey. Its a great open source scripting program for automating mouse movements and clicks etc and fairly very easy to set-up and use, even if you are IT illiterate like me. There is a macro recorder which can record all your movements/clicks etc and converts it to script which you can edit and assign to key combinations (similar to the VBA recorder in excel). I started using it for help to semi-automate bidding and listing sales on FC, but now use it for anything involving repetitive box ticking and clicking - its saved me countless hours of tedium!. This 15 min Youtube is all I followed to get Autohotkey installed and working using the macro recorder: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS-ycdoOyj8
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eeyore
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Post by eeyore on Sept 26, 2018 9:24:17 GMT
You should look at Autohotkey. Another high-end option would be AutoIt (www.autoitscript.com) which I first started using 15 years ago to simulate user input to a computer system. It's really a programming environment (similar to Visual Basic syntax) and should be able to do almost anything in a Windows environment. If you are having difficulty in analysing what's necessary, AutoIt has a couple of tools which show what Windows or the target application is doing or waiting for, to allow the AutoIt program (or your preferred alternative) to deliver the correct data at the precise time and location required. It was a life-saver when we needed to transfer thousands of records from one local system to a very idiosyncratic on-line computer system run by our national headquarters which had no bulk data-loading facility! But I repeat, it's high-end and probably overkill for a simple macro. And a further word of warning: if you compile the AutoIt code into a standalone .EXE file, your anti-virus software may object! (The instructions used by an AutoIt program can look very similar to malware...) Oh, and it's also free!
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Post by sl75 on Sept 26, 2018 14:35:33 GMT
I’m currently trying to add investments to my Manual loans account. I’d like to allocate eg £100 to each new loan paying 7% or higher. I think there was talk of this sort of thing being automated ? Maybe I’m missing something but clicking on each loan, typing the amount and clicking about 3 confirmation buttons is getting tedious.. If there’s an easier way, can someone let me know ? We already have a slightly easier way, as you can click the green (+) button on the loans list rather than having to open each individual loan page. That alone already saved enough time that I'm bothering to do it again.
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