Pick a Saturday from a calendar

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maamer
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Pick a Saturday from a calendar

Post by maamer » Fri Jan 25, 2019 10:50 pm

Hello All,
i ran into a trouble. i am trying to pick a non business day (saturday) from the calendar(in snapshot). given that the calendar tr and td tags change every month. how to uniquely define xpath for this?.
i am trying to do in a user code method in a recording:

string dateday = System.DateTime.Today.Day.ToString();
tdtag todaydate = "/dom[@domain='6012-sbx.btbanking.com']/body/div[7]//table/tbody/tr[4]/td[@innertext='25']//following-sibling/td[@childindex = '6']";
todaydate.click();

since child index of saturday column is always 6.
obviously this will not work tomorrow.. is there any way to insert the dateday variable in the xpath of todaydate something like "td[@innertext=dateday]". i tried "td[@innertext=$dateday]" and it didnot work.

could anyone help me with this.

Thank you.
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Re: Pick a Saturday from a calendar

Post by odklizec » Mon Jan 28, 2019 9:06 am

Hi,

To pass the variable to xpath (in code), you must do it like this:

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tdtag todaydate = "/dom[@domain='6012-sbx.btbanking.com']/body/div[7]//table/tbody/tr[4]/td[@innertext='" + dateday  + "']//following-sibling/td[@childindex = '6']";
BTW, you should also remove all indexes, otherwise, it will fail with day in another row. I would suggest xpath like this:

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tdtag todaydate = "/dom[@domain='6012-sbx.btbanking.com']/body//table/tbody/tr/td[@innertext='" + dateday  + "']//following-sibling/td[@childindex = '6']";
Additionally, using xpath directly in code is a big mistake people often do. You should rather pass the repo element to code via method parameter. So then if the xpath of repo element changes, you don't have to change it at many places in code. Just change it once in repo ;)
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maamer
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Re: Pick a Saturday from a calendar

Post by maamer » Mon Jan 28, 2019 3:46 pm

Thank you sir, This is awesome.