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Don's avatar
Don
Contributor
8 years ago

WebApp: Clicking on a button in a grid cell

Hello Community.   I'm having an issue that I can't figure out and hopefully someone can help me. I have a grid on a web application that has several rows and columns. I know the sample pic below s...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    8 years ago

    Can you post the code of what you've actually tried?  

     

    Here's what we're doing. These two functions combined can take any table and, given the particular set of parameters, click on the child link within the found cell within the table.

    function findRow(tableObject, stringSearch, searchColumn, maxRows = 0) {
    var cellFound = Utils.CreateStubObject();
    var upperLimit;
    if (maxRows == 0) {
        upperLimit = tableObject.RowCount;
    } 
    else {
        upperLimit = maxRows;
    } 
    if ((searchColumn == 999) || (searchColumn == undefined)) {
        cellFound = tableObject.FindChild('innerText', aqConvert.VarToStr(stringSearch) + '*', 0, true);
    }
    else {
        for (var i = 1; i < upperLimit; i ++) {
            if (aqString.Trim(tableObject.Cell(i, searchColumn).innerText) == aqString.Trim(aqConvert.VarToStr(stringSearch)) ) {
                cellFound = tableObject.Cell(i, searchColumn);
                break;
            } 
        
        } 
    }
    if (cellFound.Exists) {
        return cellFound.RowIndex;
    }
    else {
        return -1;
    }
}

function clickTableColumn(stringToFind, objectTableInput, colIndexToClick, searchColumn = 999) {

    var rowFound;
    if (objectTableInput.Exists) {
        rowFound = findRow(objectTableInput, stringToFind, searchColumn);
        objectTableInput.Cell(rowFound, colIndexToClick).Child(0).scrollIntoView(true);
        objectTableInput.Cell(rowFound, colIndexToClick).Child(0).Click();    
        }
    else { 
        throw Error('Unable to find the table '+ objectTableInput.MappedName) ;
    }               
}




tristaanogre's avatar
tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor

Can you post the code of what you've actually tried?  

 

Here's what we're doing. These two functions combined can take any table and, given the particular set of parameters, click on the child link within the found cell within the table.

function findRow(tableObject, stringSearch, searchColumn, maxRows = 0) {
    var cellFound = Utils.CreateStubObject();
    var upperLimit;
    if (maxRows == 0) {
        upperLimit = tableObject.RowCount;
    } 
    else {
        upperLimit = maxRows;
    } 
    if ((searchColumn == 999) || (searchColumn == undefined)) {
        cellFound = tableObject.FindChild('innerText', aqConvert.VarToStr(stringSearch) + '*', 0, true);
    }
    else {
        for (var i = 1; i < upperLimit; i ++) {
            if (aqString.Trim(tableObject.Cell(i, searchColumn).innerText) == aqString.Trim(aqConvert.VarToStr(stringSearch)) ) {
                cellFound = tableObject.Cell(i, searchColumn);
                break;
            } 
        
        } 
    }
    if (cellFound.Exists) {
        return cellFound.RowIndex;
    }
    else {
        return -1;
    }
}

function clickTableColumn(stringToFind, objectTableInput, colIndexToClick, searchColumn = 999) {

    var rowFound;
    if (objectTableInput.Exists) {
        rowFound = findRow(objectTableInput, stringToFind, searchColumn);
        objectTableInput.Cell(rowFound, colIndexToClick).Child(0).scrollIntoView(true);
        objectTableInput.Cell(rowFound, colIndexToClick).Child(0).Click();    
        }
    else { 
        throw Error('Unable to find the table '+ objectTableInput.MappedName) ;
    }               
}




Don's avatar
Don
Contributor
8 years ago

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

I usually just do something like this

 var editLink = Sys.Browser("*").Page("*").FindChildByXpath("//td[@id='SaveIncomplete']/descendant::img[@role='editLink']");

 

I have also used following-sibling instead of descendant. Usually that works for other methods but this one is giving me some problems.

  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    8 years ago

    While FindChildByXpath works well in many situations, one problem I have with it is that it is scanning the whole page to find the particular Xpath.  I'm not particular fond of that aspect of things hence why I use the more targeted FindChild that allows you to find the specific children of a specific parent object... in this case, the edit link in cell in the row that contains the target text.  I'm not familiar enough with FindChildByXpath to comment on why that code isn't working for you. Sorry.  Our code that I posted before works well for any table that we want to click in a control in a column.