Using powershell to rotate which IE window/tab is displayed.

Question

Hi,
We are currently working on multiple performance dashboards which are to be hosted within a web browser - due to restrictions within the workplace we HAVE to use Internet Explorer 11.
I understand that with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox there is the capability of rotating through open tabs, this function is however missing from IE.
We have 4+ dashboards set up which we can load up and view completely fine, what we are aiming to do is to rotate each IE tab so that each dashboard (tab) is showing on the monitor periodically in a loop. I have searched online and found there is
the PowerShell Community Extensions that seem to do the job but again due to work restrictions - I can only use what comes out of the box with PowerShell, which seems to be limited when trying to do this.
So I suppose my question(s) is/are:
Can I periodically loop through tabs within IE using normal PowerShell techniques?
If not; can I periodically loop through separate IE windows to similar effect?
It is imperative with the solution that the page doesn't load up a fresh instance of the url as the dashboard displays historic data which is collected real-time.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Hi Broham21,
Unfortunately SendKeys is not an option for us as you quite rightly said that they are notoriously unreliable
Hi mlg_24_05,
Found your topic quite interesting.
I used AutoIT script, to test using IE10.
Open two tabs, with Google.com.sg and Google.com.ph opened.
And I use this AutoIT script below, and it works fine.
Let the system delay for 1 second and just display a count down message and the two tabs keep toggling back and forth.. 
Anyway, it is just a piece of snippet but I hope you can get an idea out of it.
Here's the code I used:
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#include<MsgBoxConstants.au3>
 Local $sText = WinGetTitle("[ACTIVE]")
    ; Display the window title.
       MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", $sText)
Local $hWnd = WinGetHandle("Google - Windows Internet Explorer", "")
For $i = 5 To 1 Step -1
    MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "Count down!" & @CRLF & $i)
Send("^{TAB}")
Sleep(1000)
Next
;WinClose($hWnd)
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