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Largent803
Contributor
4 years ago

Locating away where Copying and Pasting Data into a Web Textbox with multiple user accounts

I have a Website where I go outside of the Website and Copy in a Word File and a Excel Spreadsheet to the Web Textbox. The files are the same whether I am in my system or another users system and th...
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  • hkim5's avatar
    hkim5
    4 years ago

    Largent803 

    my second reply should solve that problem for you, since we are no longer using hostname, but using the Sys.UserName instead (which should give you the "Largent" or any other username value that you wanted; that is, whoever logged on to the VM with testcomplete should run this script and expect to get their username filled into that path)

    as for exporting as a script file, that is not possible (nor would it be helpful, since you cannot run these scripts outside of the TC environment) 

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Largent803
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The host names are on virtual boxes this is how we run this company right now. So a actual host name is is always different depending on the day. My profile remains the same though. In addition and this will be how all testers are login to this although they will have the same Word and Excel files so those are the same.

 

As for the script do I use this in the Unit test or is there another part of the application that I am missing. Because it did not work at all on my machine.

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hkim5
Staff
4 years ago

actually i overcomplicated things

theres a Sys.UserName property that will get you this username. so the script would look like 

def test3():
  username = Sys.UserName
  Log.Message(username)
  filePath = "C:\\users\\" + username + "\\Desktop\\" + "myFile.txt" 
  Log.Message(filePath)
  return filePath

and as for where to use it, theres a "Script" test item in your project explorer:

right click, add new item

remember though, the scripting language is the one you chose at the beginning at the time of your project creation. you can also see this in the very bottom of your window while you are in the scrip editor.

 

and now to use this script snippet in your keyword tests, just drag and drop the relevant script unit into your Keyword test.

 

 

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    Largent803
    Contributor
    4 years ago

    A couple of  last questions my host name changes because I am on a virtual machine. All my settings are set up by my user profile so how do 

    I get this set against various user profiles. Second do I need to export my scripts to a script file?

     

    Thanks

    Killoran

    • hkim5's avatar
      hkim5
      Staff
      4 years ago

      Largent803 

      my second reply should solve that problem for you, since we are no longer using hostname, but using the Sys.UserName instead (which should give you the "Largent" or any other username value that you wanted; that is, whoever logged on to the VM with testcomplete should run this script and expect to get their username filled into that path)

      as for exporting as a script file, that is not possible (nor would it be helpful, since you cannot run these scripts outside of the TC environment) 

      • Largent803's avatar
        Largent803
        Contributor
        4 years ago

        I worked with Technical Support and here is the way which seems to work for everyone. 

        We created a object method with the following parameters:

         

        TestedApps.WINWORD.Params.ActiveParams the operation is a command line set and the code is "/n \"" + aqEnvironment.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERPROFILE") + "\\Desktop\\Myword.docx\" /o"

         

        This seems to be working on for other users.