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dikshika114's avatar
dikshika114
Contributor
4 years ago

What is the best way to automate Dropdown which have lot of values to select (Eg: State Dropdown)

Can anyone suggest me:

1. how can i automate State dropdown which have lot of values to select (By Using TestComplete and JavaScript)

As of now i have created object of some values and clicking on them in a simple way. But it's not convenient.

 

I want to select one state (Which I want to pick from Excel File) from State Dropdown.

 

2. Is there any way to select the value from dropdown after getting the list of values with Find Element. (Like we do

most of the time in selenium)

Eg of selenium:

List L =  Dropdown.findElemets (.......................);

L.selectByName ("Pass the name of the value that you wanna select from the Dropdown");

 

Like this, is there any way to do so with Test Complete Also?????

 

  • AGubarev's avatar
    AGubarev
    4 years ago

    1. For native web dropdown controls (even for Scalable Web Testing) the code will be:

     

     

    function test()
{
  Sys.Browser("chrome").ToUrl("https://material.angular.io/components/select/examples");
  Sys.Browser("chrome").Page("https://material.angular.io/components/select/examples").FindElement("//select[@id=(//label[.='Cars *']/@for)]").ClickItem("Audi");
}

     

     

    So, maybe the control which you use is not supported one.

    In this case you can request support of this control in the special section for feature Ideas: https://community.smartbear.com/t5/TestComplete-Feature-Requests/idb-p/TestXCompleteFeatureRequests

     

    2. 3. 4. Unfortunately, I have no access to your web page, but it seems, yes, it's not simple drop-down. That's how it's possible to deal with controls without special support:

    function Test1()
{
  let URL = "https://material.angular.io/components/select/overview";
  let whattoclick = "'Pizza'";
    
  Browsers.Item(btChrome).Navigate(URL);
  let browser = Sys.Browser();
  browser.BrowserWindow(0).Maximize();

  let page = browser.Page(URL);
  page.FindElement("//select-overview-example/mat-form-field//mat-select//span[contains(@class, 'mat-select-placeholder')]").Click();
  page.FindElement("//span[contains(text(), "+whattoclick+")]").Click();
}

     

     

  • AGubarev's avatar
    AGubarev
    4 years ago

    lets try to do it like this:

     

    WhatToClick = "'"+excelSheet.Cell("A", 3).Value+"'"

    put single quote before and after the WhatToClick

     

  • AGubarev's avatar
    AGubarev
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    4 years ago

    Do you mean something like this?

    function Test3()
{
  Browsers.Item(btFirefox).Navigate("https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/select");
  Sys.Browser().Page("https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/select").Panel("root").Panel(0).Article(0).Panel(0).Frame(0).Panel("editor_container").Panel("output").ShadowOutput(0).ShadowRoot(0).Panel(0).Select("pet_select").ClickItem("Cat");
}
    • dikshika114's avatar
      dikshika114
      Contributor
      4 years ago

      This is the object details of drop down:

      dropdownObject = //single-select//div[contains(@class, 'dropdown-toggle')] - something like this  - Defined in Name Mapping

      Below is the image of values exists in the dropdown - not defined in Name mapping - Because it can be more than 150

       

      and i want to get all the values of this dropdown at a time in a ArrayList. So that i could itrerate through that and

      could click on the exact one (whose name - i will pass into my excel sheet eg: New York) and find the values by property name like "class"

      • AGubarev's avatar
        AGubarev
        SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
        4 years ago

        Do you know which UI framework is used in your web site?

        Maybe I can look on it and invent something