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nedbacan
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2 years ago

Drag a card through different columns by name

Hello .  Can someone help?   I have a web application that contains 3 columns, in each column the user can drag the card horizontally to any of the 3 columns.  Each column can hold as many cards, ...
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  • KB1's avatar
    KB1
    2 years ago

    1. Yes, it is possible to drag a card to a certain column without using coordinates. You can use the TestComplete DOM methods to find the card element and then use the "Drag" method to drag it to the desired column.

    2. To find the card that you want to drag by its content text name, you can use the TestComplete DOM methods to find the card element based on its text content. You can use the "FindChild" or "FindChildren" method to search for the element with the desired text content and then use the "Drag" method to drag it to the desired column.

    Here is a sample JavaScript code that demonstrates how to drag a card from the first column to the second column based on its text content:

    // Find the first column element
 var column1 = Sys.Browser("").Page("").FindChild("id", "column1", 10);

// Find the card element in the first column with the desired text content
 var cardToMove = column1.FindChild("textContent", "Card 1", 10);

// Find the second column element
var column2 = Sys.Browser("").Page("").FindChild("id", "column2", 10);

// Drag the card to the second column
 cardToMove.Drag(column2);

    I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

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tvklovesu
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KB1 , I am also looking for something similar to this, but I need to do in keyword test. Do you have a sample of this test in keyword test. My scenario, this is like a gmail and I need to drag an email from one folder to another folder. So, I can provide the folders xpath selectors. Please let me know if this can be done using keyword test.

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KB1
Champion Level 2
2 years ago

tvklovesu 
Yes, it is possible to perform this drag and drop operation using a keyword test in TestComplete. You can use the "Drag" keyword and specify the source element (the card or email that you want to move) and the target element (the column or folder that you want to move the card or email to).

Here is an example of how you can do this using the "Drag" keyword and the XPath selectors for the source and target elements:

  1. Navigate to the page or application that contains the elements that you want to drag and drop.
  2. Use the "Wait" keyword to wait for the page or application to load.
  3. Use the "Find Element" keyword to find the source element (the card or email) by its XPath selector. For example:
    • Find Element id=column1//*[text()='Card 1']
  4. Use the "Find Element" keyword to find the target element (the column or folder) by its XPath selector. For example:
    • Find Element id=column2
  5. Use the "Drag" keyword to drag the source element to the target element. For example:
    • Drag id=column1//*[text()='Card 1'] id=column2

This will drag the element with the text "Card 1" from the element with the ID "column1" to the element with the ID "column2".

You can also use other methods to find the elements, such as the "Find Element By Class Name" keyword or the "Find Element By Tag Name" keyword, depending on the attributes of the elements that you want to find.



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    tvklovesu
    Frequent Contributor
    2 years ago

    KB1, I tried as following but I am getting Type mismatch at the drag step. Can you please let me know what wrong I did here

     

    Thanks

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      KB1
      Champion Level 2
      2 years ago

      Going to send you a private message