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pss-miracle
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4 years ago

Lost formatting of test steps when importing Test cases from Zephyr

This one is about import of test cases, that are exported from Zephyr (on premise) to XML, converted using tm4j-file-converter and imported into Zephyr Scale (on premise).    What's common for the ...
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    pss-miracle
    4 years ago

    We've figured out that having:

    "convertWikiMarkup": true,

    in the settings.json configuration of the tm4j-file-converter prevents text between brackets to be removed. 

    The point 2 with parentheses was not an issue after all (that text was also in some brackets)

     

    So the remaining issue here is the lost formatting of bullets / text decoration such as bold, italics and headings in test steps: these are lost after export of Zephyr test cases to XML.

    Bullets remain in the XML but are not interpreted as separate lines in Import from file, probably due to line breaks are gone as well during the export to XML.

    I'm posting a question in Zephyr forum in regards to XML export 

pss-miracle's avatar
pss-miracle
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

We've figured out that having:

"convertWikiMarkup": true,

in the settings.json configuration of the tm4j-file-converter prevents text between brackets to be removed. 

The point 2 with parentheses was not an issue after all (that text was also in some brackets)

 

So the remaining issue here is the lost formatting of bullets / text decoration such as bold, italics and headings in test steps: these are lost after export of Zephyr test cases to XML.

Bullets remain in the XML but are not interpreted as separate lines in Import from file, probably due to line breaks are gone as well during the export to XML.

I'm posting a question in Zephyr forum in regards to XML export 

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    pss-miracle
    Occasional Contributor
    4 years ago

    Also figured out that missing formatting like headings and lists is a known problem with Zephyr export.

     

    The answer I got from support:

    As of now, we can only export text files and we can't export formats.

    Also, there is no roadmap for this feature.

     

    So basically you need to know that if you migrate from Zephyr to Zephyr scale, you'll loose formatting in test steps.