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TrevorM
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

Copy and paste data from Excel to application under test (javascript)

My application under test is a  desktop app for finance I need to copy a range of data from an xlsx file to the clipboard and then paste this into my app, i.e. I do not need to read the data into Te...
  • hkim5's avatar
    hkim5
    4 years ago

    you would need to scrip that portion, and create a helper function to "copy" the values from the selected cell ranges.

    something like a for loop restricted by the length set by the user dictating the rows to iterate over, appending each cell value to a list or dictionary? I think would be the simplest way to reuse the values again later in another application as your end use would. 

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Marsha_R
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Are you testing copy/paste function in your app or are you just trying to get the data into your app some way?  I ask because sometimes the easy way for a user to perform the task and the easy way for TestComplete to perform the task are two different things.  What is your actual goal here?

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TrevorM
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

I am trying to replicate how our customers use our app. Typically they will receive data in an Excel spreadsheet and can either import this directly or can copy and paste some of the data.

I have looked at Excel Object, but as I said in my original post I don't see how to copy a range of cells rather than an individual one.

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    hkim5
    Staff
    4 years ago

    you would need to scrip that portion, and create a helper function to "copy" the values from the selected cell ranges.

    something like a for loop restricted by the length set by the user dictating the rows to iterate over, appending each cell value to a list or dictionary? I think would be the simplest way to reuse the values again later in another application as your end use would.