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merose
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4 years ago
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How to turn off stylization of parameters in the Test Player – screws up cut-and-paste

Is there a way to turn off the blue box stylization of parameter values in the Test Player? It's screwing up our testers because when they cut-and-paste into a terminal window a command that includes...
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    merose
    4 years ago

    Possibly solved: It looks like whenever you type a parameter name in a test step ("{" parameter name "}"), Zephyr Scale changes the parameter name into a <span>...</span>, but also adds a nonbreaking space: &nbsp;

     

    This is what is causing cut-and-paste problems. The nonbreaking space is a Unicode \u00A0 character, which on some platforms is cut-and-pasted as the UTF-8 bytes for that character, not as an ordinary space.

     

    Workaround: Whenever you add a parameter to a test step, immediately backspace to delete the nonbreaking space. You can also check your test cases by exporting to XML and searching for "&nbsp;". If non are found, the text of the test steps can be safely cut-and-pasted by the person executing the test.

     

    It would be convenient if Zephyr Scale did not add the nonbreaking space – or any space – when adding a parameter to a test step.

merose's avatar
merose
New Contributor
4 years ago

Possibly solved: It looks like whenever you type a parameter name in a test step ("{" parameter name "}"), Zephyr Scale changes the parameter name into a <span>...</span>, but also adds a nonbreaking space: &nbsp;

 

This is what is causing cut-and-paste problems. The nonbreaking space is a Unicode \u00A0 character, which on some platforms is cut-and-pasted as the UTF-8 bytes for that character, not as an ordinary space.

 

Workaround: Whenever you add a parameter to a test step, immediately backspace to delete the nonbreaking space. You can also check your test cases by exporting to XML and searching for "&nbsp;". If non are found, the text of the test steps can be safely cut-and-pasted by the person executing the test.

 

It would be convenient if Zephyr Scale did not add the nonbreaking space – or any space – when adding a parameter to a test step.