Using Excel Files as data sources - very slow behaviour

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Re: Using Excel Files as data sources - very slow behaviour

Post by carsonw » Thu May 16, 2013 10:48 pm

ajw wrote:The Ranorex project files are on the network drive while Ranorex Studio is installed on my computer, so I access the project files across our network; this ensures the project files are included within our server's nightly backup routine. Whenever I create a new data source from an Excel spreadsheet, I always use the 'Copy File To Project' option, to ensure the spreadsheets are also backed-up.
Have you considered putting them in source control? That way you can have them all locally and still keep them safe!

All of our code AND datasheets containing our test are source controlled. Our automation developers just update when they are ready to test... and our build machine builds the projects and the test machines just pick them up from there.

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Re: Using Excel Files as data sources - very slow behaviour

Post by ajw » Wed Jun 19, 2013 10:56 am

Just an update on this particular item:

Updating to 4.0.4 did not address the binding speed but moving all of the files locally has fixed the problem.

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Re: Using Excel Files as data sources - very slow behaviour

Post by Support Team » Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:27 pm

Hello,

Thank you for your update on this.

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