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MW_Didata
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24 days ago
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Refine area to solve OCR.Recognize found 2 object

For one of my tests I need to select the right week in an agenda object.

While reading the docs https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/program-objects/ocrtextdocument/blockbytext.html

You can set different SelectionPreferences to make sure you select the right object.

 

 

Is there anyway to combine 2 SelectionPreferences? 


in my case I want it to select the spLeftmost and spTopmost.

When clicking Weeknumber 27 I get this warning in the logs

"2 blocks were found by the text '27'. The first block was returned"

 

The test still passes, but it gives a warning in the logs.

  • sean4311's avatar
    sean4311
    12 days ago

    Hello,

    Unfortunately, this is not possible to do. Given an object, the OCR actions are only able to take in one selection preference. 

    Feel free to add this as a feature request for future considerations! Link to make the request is below:

    https://community.smartbear.com/category/testcomplete_forum/ideas/testxcompletefeaturerequests

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  • MW_Didata's avatar
    MW_Didata
    Regular Contributor
    24 days ago

    The full OCR action is use is:

    OCR.Recognize(Object).BlockByText(weeknr, spLeftMost).Click();

  • sean4311's avatar
    sean4311
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    12 days ago

    Hello,

    Unfortunately, this is not possible to do. Given an object, the OCR actions are only able to take in one selection preference. 

    Feel free to add this as a feature request for future considerations! Link to make the request is below:

    https://community.smartbear.com/category/testcomplete_forum/ideas/testxcompletefeaturerequests

  • nastester's avatar
    nastester
    Regular Contributor
    12 days ago

    MW_Didata​ 

    Question for you because I will be in a similar boat too soon I think.  Are you using OCR to automate that datepicker? 
    With the datepicker my web app has, I dont think I have the ability to set the date using some method or property or something so I'd have to click on it, which seems not good.  Just thinking about how I am going to do this... 

    • MW_Didata's avatar
      MW_Didata
      Regular Contributor
      12 days ago

      Yes I did use OCR for this, in our application clikcing either weeknumber 27 will give you the right week.
      What i ended op doing to get around the "2 code blocks were found" warning is disabling the log posting for just this issue then re-enabling after the ocr action

      In the test i just use this:

        ProjectSuite.Variables.disableLog = true;


        OCR.Recognize(object).BlockByText(weeknr, spLeftMost).Click();


        ProjectSuite.Variables.disableLog = false;

      I created an eventcontroller on log warnings:

      which fires this function that disables the log post if the msg contains "2 blocks found":

      function Disable_OCR_Log(Sender, LogParams)
      {
        if (ProjectSuite.Variables.disableLog)
        {
          if (aqString.Find(LogParams.Str, "2 blocks were found by the text") != -1)
          {
            LogParams.Locked = true;
          }
          else
          {
            LogParams.Locked = false;
          }
        }
      }