any function to report current system time in Ranorex

[lingzhou]

Hi, there,

Is there a function in Ranorex to report the current system timetamp?

Report.Info("There is a failure at", timestampfunction);

[Ciege]

You can write your own...

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            string strYear = System.DateTime.Now.Year.ToString();
            string strMonth = System.DateTime.Now.Month.ToString();
            string strDay = System.DateTime.Now.Day.ToString();
            string strHour = System.DateTime.Now.Hour.ToString();
            string strMinute = System.DateTime.Now.Minute.ToString();
            string strSecond = System.DateTime.Now.Second.ToString();
            string strDateTimeStamp = strYear + "_" + strMonth + "_" + strDay + "___" + strHour + "_" + strMinute + "_" + strSecond;

[Support Team]

And it can get even easier, since the System.DateTime class already defines some nice overloads for the ToString() method, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... tinfo.aspx

Report.Info("The current time is " + System.DateTime.Now.ToString("U"));

Moreover, the standard Ranorex XML and console loggers already print the time that the message was logged at.

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Support Team

[Ciege]

You are correct about the "easier" way to do it. The reason I broke it out the way I did is so I can manipulate the different parts of the sate and time to name my report file in a standard fashion that was requested of me. Basically "Time_Date_logname.xml".

[lingzhou]

Alex, thanks for the link it is very helpful to manipulate the date/time format

Ceige, your function has better control of the format. By the way, how do you generate xml format report and how to control the content in that report?

[Ciege]

For the report, I use Report.Setup and pass it an XML name. That way when the report is created it is immediately viewable by anyone with the XSL available within IE.

I store my report XML & XSL in a networked directory so that others on my team (QA & Dev) have access to the reports.

The code below is what I use to create a report on the local drive that has a date/time stamped parent folder. Once the testing is complete I will move the folder to the network location that we have picked to store automation results.

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// Setup Reporter   
            string strYear = System.DateTime.Now.Year.ToString();
            string strMonth = System.DateTime.Now.Month.ToString();
            string strDay = System.DateTime.Now.Day.ToString();
            string strHour = System.DateTime.Now.Hour.ToString();
            string strMinute = System.DateTime.Now.Minute.ToString();
            string strSecond = System.DateTime.Now.Second.ToString();
            string strDateTimeStamp = strYear + "_" + strMonth + "_" + strDay + "___" + strHour + "_" + strMinute + "_" + strSecond;
            string LogFile = @"c:\temp\Report\" + strDateTimeStamp + @"\Package_Price_Quote_Reg_Test.xml";

            if (Directory.Exists(@"c:\temp\Report\" + strDateTimeStamp) == false)
            {
                Directory.CreateDirectory(@"c:\temp\Report\" + strDateTimeStamp);
            }

            Report.Setup(ReportLevel.Debug, LogFile, true);
            Report.SystemSummary();

[lingzhou]

Ceige, thank you so much for the code example. That works.

BTW, I benefit a lot from the functions you sent to me earlier, those are really good stuff!

[Ciege]

You are very welcome. Glad I could help.
Is there any functionality that you find missing in the Excel methods I sent you? I have only written methods for what I use but that is obviously not all that it can do.

[lingzhou]

I am mainly using two functions now. If I need more functions later on, I will try to change the code by myself and share it with you, or looking for help from you

You are very welcome. Glad I could help.
Is there any functionality that you find missing in the Excel methods I sent you? I have only written methods for what I use but that is obviously not all that it can do.