trying to front end a complicated web page with another simple webpage to make data entry easier
We have to fill out a very complicated webpage to enter in our data.
This data entry webpage isn't ours and we cannot modify it.
We would like to front end this complicated webpage which has 200 fields
scattered into 3 or 4 large web pages that have to be scrolled thru with a much
simpler, much smaller webpage that has a dozen fields and
is small enough not to have to scroll thru it.
We want a simple webpage that will fill out another complicated webpage to speed
thru our data entry.
Is there a way to do this? I presume this would require javascript.
Thanks
Hi Tom!
As I suppose, you want to create website that covers few websites into one.
There is few solutions how to do it and few issures related with it.
Solutions:
- Write own front-end website that simplyfy desired web sites and install it on some server (javascript required). That solution works in a web browser, so you need to have granted permissions to call desired web sites APIs. It means you need to have permissions to do Cross-Origin requests to the desired web sites, they need to provide some API (in API lack case, you can try some tricks like sending data to iframe, but modern browsers are smart and can block it).
- Second option is to write some back-end logic that sends requests to the desired web sites - some RESTful requests from back-end logic. That approach may lead to blocks on your back-end server IP address on the desired web site when the administrator would see suspicious traffic.
- If website is very complicated you can try to use Selenium to pretend the user behaving to fill fields - you can run Selenium on back-end (second option) or as separated desktiop application.
A solution depends of how many requests and how often you would like to do to the desired websites.