By tknospdr on

I've just set up a new site for a customer. They asked if it would be possible to automate filling out some fields in another site's web submission form.
I don't see any way to do it but I thought I'd ask the Drupal braintrust.

Basically what I need is when user clicks button a separate window/tab is opened to the foreign website's submission form and the "comments/body" field is filled out with text I've already laid out.

Is this doable?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

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stevenc commented

For security reasons, a browser can't manipulate elements that exist in another domain. i.e. if you were opening the window for you own application it would be allowed.

Now, the other domain could choose to support such a feature, by ingesting values from the URL query string (or via services or some other mechanism) but unless they already do this, you can't force it to work.

FYI This has nothing to do with Drupal - this is a normal browser/web development concept.

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