How to select each tab without knowing the url or tab title?

I have an IE browser opened which have 5 tabs. The current selected tab is the last one (tab 5). I want to jump to tab 2 without knowing the url.

fayrehouse
12 years ago
I would never want to suggest Tanya wasn't right - she's way smarter with TC than me - but I think a slight tweak to her code is required... I think her code in its current state is trying to click an entire array of tabs in a single click - while what you are looking to do is click the "nth" tab. With that in mind, blatantly stealing Tanya's code(!), and remembering arrays start at the 0th element:

function ClickTabByNo(TabIndex) // Specify Tab Index as 1-5 "human form"

{

  var tabPanel = Sys.Browser("iexplore").BrowserWindow(0).CommandBar.TabBand;

  var tabs = tabPanel.FindAll("ObjectType","TabButton");

  tabs = (new VBArray(tabs)).toArray();

  tabs[TabIndex - 1].Click();

}

fayrehouse
Frequent Contributor
12 years ago
I would never want to suggest Tanya wasn't right - she's way smarter with TC than me - but I think a slight tweak to her code is required... I think her code in its current state is trying to click an entire array of tabs in a single click - while what you are looking to do is click the "nth" tab. With that in mind, blatantly stealing Tanya's code(!), and remembering arrays start at the 0th element:

function ClickTabByNo(TabIndex) // Specify Tab Index as 1-5 "human form"

{

  var tabPanel = Sys.Browser("iexplore").BrowserWindow(0).CommandBar.TabBand;

  var tabs = tabPanel.FindAll("ObjectType","TabButton");

  tabs = (new VBArray(tabs)).toArray();

  tabs[TabIndex - 1].Click();

}
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
12 years ago

Hi Rey,

Something like this:

function Test()

{

var tabPanel = Sys.Browser("iexplore").BrowserWindow(0).CommandBar.TabBand;

var tabs = tabPanel.FindAll("ObjectType","TabButton");

tabs = (new VBArray(tabs)).toArray();

tabs[2].Click();

}
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
12 years ago

Good catch, Steve :)

In my defense, I would like to add that our syntax highlighter removed the [2] code from tabs[2].Click() in my script. I've reported this issue to our web team. Thanks!
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
12 years ago

Hi Murugan,

The cause of the issue may be related to this line:

Set tabs = tabPanel.FindAll("TabStripWndClass","All")

The second parameter of the FindAll method should be the value of the property specified as the first parameter. It's unlikely that the value of TabStripWndClass will be All. Please check this in the Object Browser.
murugans1011
Regular Contributor
12 years ago
Could u please correct my code plz..i m getting object required error function

ClickTabByNo(TabIndex)

Set tabPanel = Sys.Process("ERPQuickLauncher").VBObject("frmQL").VBObject("Tbsoptions")

Set tabs = tabPanel.FindAll("TabStripWndClass","All")

tabs =VBArray(tabs).toArray()

call tabs(TabIndex-1).click

End function
reydimaano
Contributor
12 years ago
Thanks for all the replies.