Hello everybody! I would like to ask you what is the best way for coding a function in Java script for choosing (click) a value into a dynamic table? Thank you for helping me in advance. Best regardslambada

Hi, > Why value, or what exactly it means [...] Tools by SmartBear have excellent documentation available online and offline. This documentation is really worth reading and this is the reason of why replies on this forum quite often reference this or that help topic. For this particular case, reading documentation for .Find()/.FindChild() method had to made it clear what is the 'value' and 10 parameters. > but now I should write a script The easiest and fastest way is to turn on (script) recording in TestComplete, record required actions and analyze the recorded result. Use Object Browser in TestComplete to understand what and why was recorded. Then modify recorded code as per your needs. As I already wrote, exact implementation depends on the design of your tested web page. And until you let us know its structure, no one will likely provide you with the code sample. Right now, your request sounds like 'How to drive?'. While there is a small chance that someone will describe how to drive a bike and a car and a truck and F1 bolide, and a yacht, most likely that first you will be asked to let the guys know what exactly would you like to drive, will you drive for yourself or as a professional driver, etc. So, read referenced help topics, check videos from the https://support.smartbear.com/screencasts/testcomplete/ page, try recording and examine the tested page using Object Browser.

Did you try Find() method? function choose_value( value ) { Aliases.browser.page.Find( 'contentText', value, 10 ).Click();}

lambada wrote: Or do I have to look up into the properties of name123? Yes, do it. Usually string values are stored in contentText property. lambada wrote: Why value, or what exactly it means (actually my needed value is a string)? And why 10? Please read this topic >>>

Hi, > I hope that explains it better. No, it does not. Implementation depends on your tested application, conditions and your needs. For example, if the value you are looking for is unique, then you may just search for it within entire page. Or within the given table. If you must find the cell on the intersection of the given row and column, then you must find a way to get the required row and column and than find a way to find an object that corresponds their intersection. (In modern web applications table does not necessarily have a <Table> markup, likewise cells do not necessarily have a <TD> markup.) If your table is long and lines that are out of view are populated only when they are scrolled into view, then you will have to search for the data within the view, scroll and search again until search success or data end. So the more actual information and data, but not generic description that is applicable to any dynamic table, you provide, the better are chances to get a helpful piece of advice...

I don't know, while you have not provided us with the source code of this page or the ObjectBrowser data. :) Also you can use Object Spy to find required control and check its properties.

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lambada
Contributor
7 years ago
Hello everybody!

I would like to ask you what is the best way for coding a function in Java script for choosing (click) a value into a dynamic table?

Thank you for helping me in advance.

Best regards
lambada
- baxatob
  Community Hero
  7 years ago
  Hi,
  
  Can you provide more details about your application and task - technology used (iOS/Android), screenshots, element properties (Object Browser data) etc?
  - lambada
    Contributor
    7 years ago
    Thank you for answering
    
    It is browser testing. There is a application and a table into a side. I have to choose a specific value I need and to click on it. The table is dynamic, so the cell column of the specific value I need is changing by any changes (if bytime new values are generated).
    
    I hope that explains it better.
    
    BR
lambada
Contributor
7 years ago
baxatob thank you, I will try it!

AlexKaras thank you, I will try it. Of course I have recorded it first to see how test complete is dealing with it, but the recorded Java sript contains clicking at a position and not at the expected value. And because this value changes its position I have to write a function by myself, so I was asking if anybody can help me to write a code (Java script). The logic I understand, now I should get the practice.

Later I will give you a feedback. Thank you guys!
- AlexKaras
  Champion Level 3
  7 years ago
  Hi,
  
  > the recorded Java sript contains clicking at a position and not at the expected value.
  
  Why not to provide a piece of recorded code with your comments? This well could be saving you several days and save our time as well. :)
  
  Use Object Browser. Object Browser is you primary tool for UI testing in TestComplete. If something is identified in the Object Browser then it can be interacted with from test code. If something is not identified in the Object Browser, but you know that it exists in the tested application, then either you must find a way to make it to be identifiable in the Object Browser or to find a way to do what you need but without interacting with this entity.
  
  So, use Object Browser, explore your tested page, make a mental correlation between the layout rendered on screen with its internal structure displayed in the Object Browser, talk to developers and ask them to describe you what tools/technologies they used to create the tested page to get better understanding of how internal page objects relate to each other to provide you with the visual experience that you have from the page. This all must help you to understand what and how should be coded in your test code and this is what is required from you here before someone can provide you with some more or less meaningful and relevant code sample.
  - lambada
    Contributor
    7 years ago
    Thanks to you.
    
    I am not sure if I am permitted to share my recorded code, but I agree with you, that would be the best.
    
    Test Complete is doing:
    
    function (){
    
    var browser;
    
    ... //here are some other vars
    
    var panel;
    
    browser.BrowserWindow.Click(149, 52); //when I click for typing the webpage www.
    browser.pageWww ... .Keys("... [Enter]"); //typing the webpage www. and I press enter
    
    ... //here are some other test steps
    
    panel.table.cell.Click(36, 19);
    
    ... //here are some other test steps as well
    }
    
    instead of "panel.table.cell.Click(36, 19);" the code should contain something with "name123" beacuse the position changes. Few days later, if I would let the test case play, and TesComplete would execute "panel.table.cell.Click(36, 19);" the test case would fail becaus at the position "panel.table.cell.Click(36, 19);" I wouldn´t find "name123" anymore because the dynamic table changes (some other values will be created meantime).

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