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dhundley
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2 years ago

navigating to pop up web page tab

i have just started working with a browser based application in testcomplete and I have encountered a situation where i'm clicking a print button on one page (tab) that generates a new browser tab. T...
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    dhundley
    2 years ago

    ok. i have come up with a solution. not sure if it is the best method but, at least it appears to work. i replace this: 

    Browsers.Item(btChrome).Navigate(page.URL);

    with this:

    page.ToURL;

    and that resolved the "file couldn't be accessed" issue. then i had to map the entire blob file page (cause it doesn't have anything defined beneath it) and through trial and error I found the proper x,y coordinates that performed the click action in the correct place.

     

     

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    dhundley
    2 years ago

    that allowed the mapping of individual objects above the yellow line in the image shown here but it didn't open up anything below the line (which is where the download button is located). 

     
     

     

    i think i might be able to approach it from a different angle. if i change the chrome setting for PDFs to this (instead of "open pdf in chrome") then i can just find the pdf in my downloads folder and use it from there. I'll just have to rename it. Thanks for trying though. 

     

     

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dhundley
Regular Contributor
2 years ago

i read another post on the community forum about using the visibleonscreen property and I came up with the following javascript function which would theoretically pause the script execution until the new tab appears (while loop at line 364) and then navigate to it (line 370)

but when i run this i end up getting this instead of the blob file page tab

 

i have enabled the access to file URLs in the manage extensions for smartbear

anyone know what might be causing this or anything else i can try?

 

 

  • dhundley's avatar
    dhundley
    Regular Contributor
    2 years ago

    ok. i have come up with a solution. not sure if it is the best method but, at least it appears to work. i replace this: 

    Browsers.Item(btChrome).Navigate(page.URL);

    with this:

    page.ToURL;

    and that resolved the "file couldn't be accessed" issue. then i had to map the entire blob file page (cause it doesn't have anything defined beneath it) and through trial and error I found the proper x,y coordinates that performed the click action in the correct place.

     

     

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      dhundley
      Regular Contributor
      2 years ago

      unfortunately, while my solution worked on my workstation, it fails when i run it on the VM where the automation executes because the x,y coordinates are not exactly the same. does anyone know of a way to download a pdf file from a blob type url to the computer without having to click on a download icon? i've tried right clicking on the webpage to bring up a context menu. there is a print option but not a download. is there anything i could do in a javascript function. any sort of "download" method available? thanks!