XPath Assistance

[tbumbarger]

I am trying to click on a button that is in a repeater. So each row has it's own.

The XPath from Ranorex Spy is:

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/dom[1]//div[#'saValues']/article[3]//a[@innertext~'^ Edit\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ ']

I want to find the row by text, and then click on it's associated button. I'm able to find the index of the row I want, but I'm having trouble telling ranorex where to click.

My current failing code looks like:

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Button button = repo.Records.FindSingle<Button>("./article[" + i.ToString() + "]//a[@innertext~'Edit']");

If I add the "\\\\\" after it can't compile because it's an escape character.
It says that it cannot map the element to a button. I've tried the FlexElement class as well with no luck.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

[odklizec]

Hi,

Please post a Ranorex snapshot of the problematic element. It's the quickest and most reliable to way to get correct answer.

[tbumbarger]

Sorry about that, I've attached a snapshot. Hopefully that is what you were looking for.

[odklizec]

Hi,

I guess you want to identify the Edit button based of the hospital name, (e.g. Heber Valley Hospital), right? So then the xpath should look like this:

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/dom[@domain='10.180.224.8:8100']//div[#'saValues']/article/div//span[@title='fac.Description' and @innertext~'Heber Valley Hospital']/../..//a[@innertext~'Edit']

. Now because you most probably don't want to have the hospital name hardcoded in repo, all you need to do is to replace the InnerText Heber Valley Hospital with repo variable and connect it to a data connector. That's all. There is no need to search the button via code at all

[tbumbarger]

Got it! Thanks very much. Putting the whole thing into the repo and then just altering what I wanted did the trick.