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salley's avatar
salley
Frequent Contributor
7 years ago

struggling to retrieve the first value found in a web table based on expected text

Hello, i'm trying to verify value in webtable.it's dynamic and row index changes based on the inputs and type of the input. what i'm trying to do is capture the subtotal in cell. so i could get the ...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    7 years ago

    Hi,

     

    The best, fastest and most reliable solution is to talk to Development and ask them to provide unique and stable identifiers for all UI elements that your test code needs to work with.

    If this is not an option, then you still may try .FindAllChildren() and use the fact that the first subtotal section will be the last element of the returned array. This is not documented, but this is how .FindAllChildren() and .FindChild() work for more then decade since their implementation.

  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    7 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Not sure I got the question...
    The code seems to be fine...

    To get the first UI object just use the last found one:

    Set myObject = arrobjects(UBound(arrobjects)) ' last found object corresponds to the first UI one

    What I am missing?

     

     

  • salley's avatar
    salley
    7 years ago

    Thanks  a lot Alex,,, it works just fine,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, i'm able to use capture the desired row and use that row to capture the amount. I really appreciate your help. Cheers!

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salley
Frequent Contributor

thanks, but for some reason it starts from the buttom. and returns me the last rowindex number for the subtotal. is there a way to use index number or something

Set objTxt=MainPage.FindChild(Array("ObjectType","contentText"),Array("Cell","Sub Total"),100,true)
If (objTxt.Exists) Then 'get the rowIndex
intRwIndex=objTxt.RowIndex
msgbox intRwIndex
End IF

thanks

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
7 years ago

That's FindChild.  The results from FindChild always start at the bottom.

Suggestion... rather than doing your search from the MainPage... what if you mapped the Table itself (you're looking for Cells, there has to be a table.  You can Alias it down to simply MainPage.MyTable if you want to.

 

With that, you could just do a for-loop through the table... that will do a top down.  Something like this (JavaScript, sorry... I'm not a VB guy).  The assumption below is that the column index for the "Sub-Total" is 2... you can change that to whatever you want.

 

var myObject;
var intRowIndex;
for (var i; i < Aliases.MainPage.MyTable.RowCount -1, i++){
    if (Aliases.MainPage.MyTable.Cell(i, 2).contentText == 'Sub-Total'){
        myObject = Aliases.MainPage.myTable.Cell(i,2);
        intRowIndex = i;
        break;
    }

}
  • salley's avatar
    salley
    Frequent Contributor
    7 years ago

    thank you so much, sounds like i plan, i'll try it and let you know how it goes. have a nice weekend.

    • AlexKaras's avatar
      AlexKaras
      Champion Level 3
      7 years ago

      Hi,

       

      Also, instead of .FindChild() you may try .FindAllChildren() which will return you and array of found cells. Then you may iterate through the array and sum subtotals to get the grand total.

      • salley's avatar
        salley
        Frequent Contributor
        7 years ago
        Hi Alex , yeah sub total makes up the grand total, my requirement is to just capture the subtotal from the top section , and whatever the types are below subtotal section capture all and the verify the grand total,,,, I am only struggling with capturing the subtotal from the top section ,, I will try all the suggested approach on Monday and update !! Thanks a lot