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I want to set up Ranorex to tell me when a dropdown either adds more items or items are removed from the dropdown. Is it possible to use validation to determine this?

Just to help clarify if its not doable on its own could I have two versions of the software running and compare the changes in the dropdown?

Hello Rebus,

I am not exactly sure if I got your question, but you can for example save the data in an external file.
Please describe your issue in more detail if I didn't understand you correctly.

Regards,
Bernhard

We have dropdowns that have values added to them every build. I want to compare an old build to the new build and see what a developer has added to the dropdown. For example if in the first build we have values of yes and no in a dropdown and in the second build maybe is added to the dropdown. I want to know if Ranorex can detect that change somehow?

Hello all,

Rebus also wrote an email to [email protected]. I just want you guys know that he could solve the issue by comparing the lists using a foreach loop.
Here is a short example:

var someSelectTag = repo.SomeSelectTag;
IList<OptionTag> currentList = someSelectTag.FindDescendants<OptionTag>();
System.Collections.Generic.List<string> currentStringList = new System.Collections.Generic.List<string>();

foreach(OptionTag item in currentList)
{
	string itm = item.InnerText.ToString();
	currentStringList.Add(itm);
}

System.Collections.Generic.List<string>  DropdownOps = new System.Collections.Generic.List<string>();
DropdownOps.Add("Volvo");
DropdownOps.Add("Opel");
DropdownOps.Add("Saab");
DropdownOps.Add("Audi");
DropdownOps.Add("VW");

foreach(string item in DropdownOps)
{
	if (currentStringList.Contains(item))
		Report.Info(item + " is available");
	else
		Report.Info(item + " is not available");
}

Regards,
Bernhard