Is it possible to use another repository element in xPath?

[lucian.teodorescu]

Hi all,

I am facing this issue: on a specific screen I have several labels (text) and some other elements: textboxes, comboboxes etc, like this:

Label 1 - Textbox 1
Label 2 - Textbox 2
Label 3 - Combobox 3 etc.

The labels are not linked to their mate element. Also, the elements have unique ID's in the database, but Ranorex doesn't see them. So far I can identify these elements (i.e. textboxes) by ChildIndex Value. But the hard part comes when this index changes (whether the order/location is changed, or strangely with every new build of the app Ranorex finds different indexes).

So I was wondering if there is any possibility to include another item in xpath, for example to reference the item on the same line with another.

e.g. textbox1=myapp/screen1/text[@location.Y=$variableRepositoryItem.Y] or even better:
textbox1=myapp/screen1/text[@location.Y=$variableRepositoryItem.Y and location.X=$variableRepositoryItem.X+100]

where in this case $variableRepositoryItem is bound to Label1.

I hope my question is clear enough for you to understand. If not, I will try harder

AUT: Android app

Thank you!

[odklizec]

Hi,

I believe the xpath does not accept @location.X or @location.Y attributes, but you can use cx() and cy() functions instead. And I'm afraid, xpath also does not accept calculations nor you can pass repo element to xpath via variable. However, it should be possible to achieve what you want via code? here is a quick&dirty example (constructed for MS Calculator buttons )...

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        public void Mouse_Click_ButtonToClick(Ranorex.Adapter srcButton)
        {
        	int xVal = srcButton.Element.Location.X+39;
            int yVal = srcButton.Element.Location.Y;
        	string xPathStr = "//button[@class='Button' and cy()=" + yVal.ToString() + " and cx()=" + xVal.ToString() + "]";
			Ranorex.Button destButton = Host.Local.FindSingle<Ranorex.Button>(srcButton.Element.Parent.GetPath(PathBuildMode.Reduce) + xPathStr,2000);
			destButton.Click();
        }

Basically, the above code gets the location coordinates from the button "1" (passed to method via parameter), adds value 39 to x coordinate (constant distance from one button to next button on the same Y coordinate), creates new xpath, finds element belonging to that xpath and finally clicks it. Hope this helps?

[lucian.teodorescu]

Hi Pavel!

Thank you very much for the post, especially for the code example. I was thinking about user code approach and your help is highly appreciated.

This is what solved my problem:

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public void selectAssociateElement(Ranorex.Adapter srcLabel)
		{
			int xVal=srcLabel.Element.Location.X;
			int yVal=srcLabel.Element.Location.Y;
			int widthVal = srcLabel.Element.Size.Width;
			
			string xPathStr = "/mobileapp[@title='Wera.PL.Android']//androidelement[@Platformclass='Wera.Controls.Android.MobileAndrCombobox' and @Visible='True' and cy()=" + yVal.ToString() + " and cx()>" + xVal.ToString() + " and cx()<" + (xVal+widthVal+75).ToString() + "]/text";
			Report.Info("Info","Touch element to the right of " + srcLabel.Element.As<Ranorex.Text>().TextValue + " identified by location: "+ xPathStr);
			Ranorex.Text destElement = Host.Local.FindSingle<Ranorex.Text>(xPathStr,30000);
			
			destElement.Touch();

[odklizec]

You are welcome. I'm glad I could help!