Hi All -
I have a situation where I have 2 tasks to perform. The first is to set a system date (run -> cmd -> date 01/01/2010), and the second to click a button in my app's UI. The problem is that I have to do this 180 times (at least, once for each date).
What I envision is something like this:
Date_01_01_2010.Start()
Click_Button.Start()
Date_01_02_2010.Start()
Click_Button.Start()
Where Click_Button.rxrec is called over and over (single recording), but with unique date files as they have different dates for each iteration.
My question is - how might I do this most effective, hopefully without having to run the recorder 179 more times? My ideal solution would be to create the first recording, Date_01_01_2010.rxrec, then copy and paste it 179 times, making the very small changes needed to each one. This is still a lot better than recording each one from a blank recording, but still painful.
Any ideas on how I might accomplish this very unpleasant task?
Thanks so much, in advance!
Copying / Reusing Recordings for Very nasty repetitive task
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Re: Copying / Reusing Recordings for Very nasty repetitive task
Hi,
Peter
Ranorex Support Team
Instead of record each date to its own recording, I would automate this by code. You have access to the whole framework of Ranorex and .Net. You can use a method like following:jhance wrote:My question is - how might I do this most effective, hopefully without having to run the recorder 179 more times?
private static List<System.DateTime> GetDateRange(System.DateTime startDate, System.DateTime endDate) { if(startDate > endDate) { return null; } List<System.DateTime> dateList = new List<System.DateTime>(); System.DateTime tmpDate = startDate; while(tmpDate <= endDate) { dateList.Add(tmpDate); tmpDate = tmpDate.AddDays(1); } return dateList; }And use this method in your main:
System.DateTime startDate = System.DateTime.Parse("01/01/2010"); System.DateTime endDate = System.DateTime.Parse("01/03/2010"); foreach(System.DateTime date in GetDateRange(startDate,endDate)) { //Execute your code actions }Regards,
Peter
Ranorex Support Team