Want to add a new column in excel for a data driven loop
I have a data driven loop that is pulling from an excel spreadsheet. Four of the six columns are for products the company offers and the company has added a fifth product, so i wanted to add a new column to the excel spreadsheet and add another section to the keyword test for the new product. I add the column, but when I go into testcomplete, it does not see the new column. As a matter of fact, if delete or change the order of the columns it still doesn't seem to see the change. I tried to go through the "select data variable" wizard for the data driven loop and re-select the same spreadsheet, but when you get to the step where you select the sheet within the spreadsheet I press the "View Sheet" button and it still has the original sheet layout. I tried redirecting the data driven loop to a copy of the edited spreadsheet in a different folder and it still shows the layout for the old spreadsheet. Can somebody explain to me what is going on and if/how i can add a column to the spreadsheet for the data driven loop?
So, after spending last night thinking about the problem, Shankar's first response got me thinking and I gave the project to a colleague to try on his computer to see if it was just my setup, since what I wanted to happen was working like I expected for Shankar. My co worker opened the project, edited sheet 1 of the spreadsheet and it worked for him the way it did for Shankar. I then took his copy of the project and put it on a laptop we lend to contractors and it didn't work there. Then I realized the problem, my co worker edited sheet 1! When i was opening the spreadsheet it was defaulting to sheet 4 which is the master list of all available countrys, not the working list for the current execution... So it was something embarrassingly simple that was the problem, user error. I had been editing sheet 4 in excel and in test complete I was looking at sheet 1!
Thank you for the help everyone!
