Dealing with mmc and changing column sorts

houseofcutler · Post by **houseofcutler** » Fri Mar 21, 2014 4:42 pm

Hi All,

I am new to Ranorex but so fr it looks great. The automation side of things is fine and very powerful however I am having trouble when testing a product which uses mmc as a command console.

I got around the issue with dynamic IDs but now have a problem where I am trying to locate a text value within a column but the row it is no may change (due to sorting or additional items being added)

Ranorex always defaults to creating a row item in the repository and if i change this to column it does not work. What would be the simplest way to address this issue please?

I have attached a screenshot of the list. So for example if I want to locate and perform an action on an item in the 'name' column knowing that its position in the list may change what should I change the xpath to?

Your help would be very much appreciated

Thanks

Post by **Support Team** » Mon Mar 24, 2014 3:57 pm

Hello houseofcutler,

Unfortunately it is hard to say how the change of the position of the element in the list reflects in the RxPath. Therefore, I may ask if it is possible for you to provide a Ranorex snapshot file of your application to us?
If yes, please upload it to our forum or send it to: [email protected]

Thank you in advance!

Regards,
Robert

mzperix · Post by **mzperix** » Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:57 am

I have two remarks regarding your issue.

Remark 1

As I see you are looking for an exact match

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cell[@text='Alert-Photo']

Sometimes I had a problem, that there were white spaces in the cell we looked for.
Try to change the rxpath to

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cell[@text~'Alert-Photo']

This way you look for a cell containing the text 'Alert-Photo'

Please note, that the whole matching mechanism is case sensitive.

Remark 2

Regarding your concrete issue, just leave out the index number of the row, like this:

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/form[@processname='mmc' and @class='MMCMainFrame' and @instance='1']//table[@class='SysListView32']/row/cell[@text~'Alert-Photo']

This xpath should find the cell containing the text 'Alert-Photo'.

Best Regards,
Zoltán Major

houseofcutler · Post by **houseofcutler** » Mon Mar 31, 2014 5:16 pm

Sorry I haven't update for a few days.Thank you for the responses - I was able to solve my issue using the advise offered.

My Project now contains:

Rooted Folder for centre window:

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 ?/?/form[@title~'^Console\ Root\\Groupcall']/?/?/table[@class='SysListView32']

Specific Job Item:

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row/cell[@text='Dashboard-Heartbeat']

Following siblings

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row/cell[@text='Dashboard-Heartbeat']/following-sibling::cell[@columnindex=3]

And I have also added items with variables for data driven testing:

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row/cell[@text=$varJobName]/following-sibling::cell[@columnindex=1]

So far the evaluation is going well

Thanks again

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