AutoHotKey Clicking on JavaScript HyperLinks

Question

I am developing an AHK script for my company to automate some tedious manual processing on an Internet Explorer interface. So far I have been able to create an instance of IE, detect if it exists/is active, and I've been able to "getElementById" to fill in text fields, set focus, retrieves values and click on buttons.

But for the very last step, I can't for the life of me figure it out: there are a few links on this interface, which are not simple URL hyperlinks that lead to another page. "Inspecting the element" on one of these shows this HTML code:

<span class="relatedLink" id="a_statusChangeLink" style="color: blue;" onclick="javascript:openWindowL('StatusChange.aspx?Co=ABC&Cov=001&Ident=AAAAA&Digest=0obCAhixDLtLZRc10og9fNmgf0F&PhzKUudf2spZF14')">Change Status</span>

There are a few of these links side by side, I have been able to "getElementsByClass" using that "relatedLink" class, and match which one had .innerText = "Change Status". Index is 9 in the array of links in this class. My Issue? The .Click() property is NOT working. As you can see from the HTML snippet, it triggers a JS function that opens another window. I tried just "Navigating" to the onclick link, but the "Digest" argument is a key that changes every single time. Also FYI, these links only appear on the page once a button is clicked; they're not there before.

I tried this: AutoHotKey JavaScript Link But it still comes down to just sending a Click, and that doesn't do anything :/. I've tried sending multiple clicks too, to no avail.

Thank you so much for any advice you can provide :).

My relevant code:

IELoad(myWB)
{
    If !myWB
        Return False
    Loop
        Sleep, 50
    Until (myWb.Busy)
    Loop
        Sleep, 100
    Until (!myWB.Busy)
    Loop
        Sleep, 500
    Until (myWB.Document.Readystate = "Complete")
}
^t::    
    myWB := ComObjCreate("InternetExplorer.Application")
    myWB.Visible := True
    myWB.Navigate("http://blabla.domain.local/blah.aspx")
    IELoad(myWB)
    MsgBox, 64, Loaded, Loaded!
    If WinActive("ahk_class IEFrame") > 0
    {
        SetTitleMatchMode, 2
        WinGetActiveTitle, myTitle
            if InStr(myTitle, "Blah") > 0
            {
                ;MAIN CODE HERE
                myWB.document.getElementById("a_TransactionButton").Click()
                IELoad(myWB)
                Sleep, 500

                ;Now the links appear - We want id=a_statusChangeLink

                While (myVal <> "Change Status")
                    myVal:= myWB.document.getElementsByClassName("relatedLink")[A_Index].innerText, index := A_Index
                MsgBox, 64, Test, Count is: %myVal% and index is: %index%
                myWB.document.getElementsByClassName("relatedLink")[index].Click()

                ;This is an alternative way of getting that element

                links := myWB.document.getElementsByClassName("relatedLink")
                Loop, % links.length
                    n := A_Index - 1
                Until, links[n].innerText = "Change Status"
                links.item(n).click()

                ExitApp         
            }else
            {
                MsgBox, 64, Window not found, I did not detect an active Blah window...
                ExitApp
            }
    }
    MsgBox, 64, IE Not Found, I did not detect an active IE window...
    ExitApp
return

Esc::ExitApp