Edit Wix Site content using Web Automation

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Hello,
So I have tried to change, on a Wix Site, various elements’ value. Turns out that Wix has some sort of protection system that doesn’t allow to change content and make it readable by the Site’s code. What I mean is, that when I have for example an input that has already the value set to something, when I try to change the value using a script that runs for instance on the console, it does change it visually but the page does not detect the change. And also, when the input gets out of focus, the value resets to the previous one.
It is still possible to click on buttons and read content using a script.

So, is there a way of bypassing or maybe disabling that? Just out of curiosity…

Since this is related to Wix Code I’ll add the tag #WixCode .

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I assume you mean change visually as in using

$w(“#input”).value = “blue”

But when saving to a database it saves the initial value of red?

If this is the case you actually need to assign the value to the dataset rather than the input (or both)

Ie

$w(“#dataset1”).setFieldValue(“column”, “blue”)

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I knew it wasn’t a good idea to post this on the Wix Code category as a moderador told me to do.
What I mean is a script running outside the Site that changes something on the Site, cannot be read by the Site’s code (Wix Code).