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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 o...
  • 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

     

dikshika114's avatar
dikshika114
Contributor
4 years ago

1. If i am not wrong, "ClickItem" can't work for Cross Browser Testing. Is it?? I have created all objects using XPath and Css

2. Can you please share the code for that part exactly because it's not working for me??

3. ClickItem option is not displaying in suggestion to me in the way as you mentioned. Refer attached image

4. The details of my drop down is:

and ClickItem is not displayed in that case.

  • AGubarev's avatar
    AGubarev
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    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();
}

     

     

  • dikshika114's avatar
    dikshika114
    Contributor
    4 years ago

    When i try to pick "+WhatToClick+" from excel file like 'New York' , Xpath is not selecting the item. But when i pass the excat value in the xpath instead in the excel file, It's working for me. Can you please suggest a better way to pass the text in the xpath as a variable??

     

    Xpath = //span[contains(text(), 'New York')].Click();                --- working for me

     

    WhatToClick = excelSheet.Cell("A", 3).Value; Where teh value is 'New York'

    XPath = //span[contains(text(), "+WhatToClick+")].Click();      ---- Not working for me where WhatToClick is picking from the excel file.

     

     

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

    lets try to do it like this:

     

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

    put single quote before and after the WhatToClick

     

  • dikshika114's avatar
    dikshika114
    Contributor
    4 years ago

    It worked for me. Thank you so much