Updating OR item property

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Updating OR item property

Post by SurajJaldu » Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:04 am

Hi,

There is a breadcrumb in our web application which gets updated with new text when we click few links on the page. I need to verify that the breadcrumb gets updated with new text after I click on a link.

Now, my old code is

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myOR.Home.myLink.click();
Delay.Seconds(3);
if(myOR.Home.BreadCrumb.InnerText=="exptext"){ return success;}
I had to use Delay because BreadCrumb already exists on the page so sometimes when application is slow, Ranorex gets the old text and test fails.

So, I've improved the code.. by updating OR item's properties at run-time.

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myOR.Home.myLink.click();
string text = "exptext";
string BreadCrumbPath = myOR.Home.BreadCrumbInfo.Path.ToString();
BreadCrumbPath  = BreadCrumbPath.Substring(1, BreadCrumbPath.Length-2);
BreadCrumbPath += " and @InnerText='" + text + "']";
myOR.Home.BreadCrumbInfo.Path = BreadCrumbPath;
obj = Host.Local.FindSingle(myOR.Home.BreadCrumbInfo.AbsolutePath, 10000);
if(obj.Exists()){ return success;}
Is there a better way to update OR item's properties?

[NOTE]: Code in this post is just pseudo code.
Thanks,
Suraj

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Re: Updating OR item property

Post by Support Team » Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:03 pm

Hi,

I would recommend to track the parent of the bread crumb path and simple search from this position.
Doing so, it's not necessary to use the string manipulations you've posted.
...
Element parent = "/path/to/the/parent/element";
...
parent.FindSingle("./*[@text='<expectedText1>']",10000);
...
myOR.Home.myLink.click();
parent.FindSingle("./*[@text='<expectedTex2t>']",10000);
...
Whereas <expectedText> is the actual text you want to validate.

Regards,
Tobias
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Re: Updating OR item property

Post by SurajJaldu » Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:12 pm

Yeah. That would work. Thanks.