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RichBopp
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7 years ago
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KeyWord Mode: Is there a way to force a specific option to be selected from a drop down list?

I have a drop down list for selecting Shipping Company.  Depending on the customer, the options available can be different, thus the positions of those they have in common are in different places on ...
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    RichBopp
    7 years ago

    Martin/Cuncerw,

     

    Devin over at SmartBear Customer Care came up with a NameMapping option that worked for me, and I wanted to share.

     

    The recorded identifiers were:

    -ObjectType: "Cell"
    -RowIndex: "2"
    -ColumnIndex: "0"

     

    By changing them to the following:

    -ObjectType: "Cell"

    -textContent: "Freight Collect"

     

    I was able to get it to work for me for all customers I wished to test against.

     

    Thank you for your advise,

     

    Rich

     

     

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tristaanogre
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cunderw wrote:

You could create a utility script that loops through all options and finds one whose text value matches the text you expect and get its index for the item to click. 

 

 

Yup, that's actually probably your best bet given that it's a custom control that is not a "standard" set.  You could attempt to use Object Mapping (https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/object-identification/improving/mapping.html) to try and map the control to something close to what it is but I suspect that it's not going to work very cleanly there.  As cunderw said, you'll need to work with the properties and fields and methods that are native to the objects and build something custom.

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RichBopp
Contributor
7 years ago

Martin/Cuncerw,

 

Devin over at SmartBear Customer Care came up with a NameMapping option that worked for me, and I wanted to share.

 

The recorded identifiers were:

-ObjectType: "Cell"
-RowIndex: "2"
-ColumnIndex: "0"

 

By changing them to the following:

-ObjectType: "Cell"

-textContent: "Freight Collect"

 

I was able to get it to work for me for all customers I wished to test against.

 

Thank you for your advise,

 

Rich