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jesse2's avatar
jesse2
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

Unable to create table checkpoint from Web page table

I tried looking around here for a while before posting this, but I'm at a loss.   I am trying to create a table checkpoint for an HTML table on a webpage using TestComplete 12.50. The table is gene...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    7 years ago

    Table checkpoints, based upon the documentation that I'm seeing, are only supported for Desktop applications (go to the list of supported controls https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/checkpoints/tables/supported-controls-and-required-plug-ins.html). For web tables, you'll have to do some other work for that.

     

    The link for the extension is, indeed, broken... TanyaYatskovska... do you know if there's another location for that script extension?  It does seem like it would meet the need.

     

    Basically, though, you could manually do what is described.

     

    1) Write code to grab the table object and save the baseline of the object as an XML Checkpoint in your project

    2) Use the XML Checkpoint to compare the contents of the "live" table with the stored XML copy.

     

     

tristaanogre's avatar
tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
7 years ago

Table checkpoints, based upon the documentation that I'm seeing, are only supported for Desktop applications (go to the list of supported controls https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/checkpoints/tables/supported-controls-and-required-plug-ins.html). For web tables, you'll have to do some other work for that.

 

The link for the extension is, indeed, broken... TanyaYatskovska... do you know if there's another location for that script extension?  It does seem like it would meet the need.

 

Basically, though, you could manually do what is described.

 

1) Write code to grab the table object and save the baseline of the object as an XML Checkpoint in your project

2) Use the XML Checkpoint to compare the contents of the "live" table with the stored XML copy.

 

 

  • jesse2's avatar
    jesse2
    Occasional Contributor
    7 years ago

    Thanks for the help and guidance.

     

    Yesterday, I was able to implement your method using XML checkpoints to validate the HTML table. I'm working through some of the finer details now to make it more robust. This might be a working solution although I'd still like to get a hold of that HTML table extension script. If Tanya can find the extension I'd be more than happy to try that out too. I'd like to have multiple options to show to my team to see which way we'd like to go.

     

    Thanks

  • TanyaYatskovska's avatar
    TanyaYatskovska
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    7 years ago

    Hi All,

    Thanks for mentioning me, Robert. I'm looking for the extension for you.