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TestingDWaters's avatar
TestingDWaters
New Contributor
4 months ago

including hyperlinks in csv uploads

Scale allows us to include hyperlinked text, tables etc when manually creating test cases.  However, when uploading a csv as a test case, I cannot find what formatting is required for Scale to recognize the text as a hyperlink, or table or other special formatted text.  I cannot find any documentation on how to do this.

I have also noticed that while we can uplink links to JIRA issues, Confluence or external web applications do not get uploaded.  Why, if the capability exists when manually creating test cases, can we not do so when creating test cases from csv files?

  • MisterB's avatar
    MisterB
    Champion Level 3
    4 months ago

    It looks like a bug to me.  I created a test case with hyperlinks, exported that to both CSV and XML files, then re-imported both.  The CSV import loses the hyperlinks.  The XML retains almost all hyperlinks.  When I look at the code for a hyperlink in the XML file I can see that it looks different to what is contained in the CSV file

    CSV: <http://www.disney.com>
    XML: <a href="http://www.disney.com">step1</a>

    Changing the CSV file to have the same hyperlink reference that's in the XML file = success, so I can only conclude that it's a bug, but on the plus side, it looks like you can import hyperlinks in CSV files if you change the text as in the example above ( I'm guessing you can remove the mention of the step so it's just <a href="http://www.disney.com"></a> )

    Can you let me know if you are going to raise a ticket with SmartBear support about this please?