iam doing my first workflow where i transfer information from one program to another via excel. The second program is webbased tool.
My problem is: via type into activity i want to clear a drop down menu, because there is a pre defined value and than choose the right value from my dictionary.
Clearing works, choosing the right value works too, BUT it doesnt safe the right value. Which means in my drop down there has to be a “cross” to choose it. Right now, iam choosing the value just via typing and entering. But this isnt enought for the web based programm. I need die validation as a cross.
How can i solve this problem, that my value will be validated with a cross and not just with an enter?
It would be helpfully, when you can share some screenshots for more illustrating the scenario.
In general, we woud setup a custom verification flow, that would realize some more steps to check the sucessfully entering. Therefore it will use some uielements and its specifics, which we can we identify at Element attribute level for the detailed selectors
Typically we encounter some constructs when with Webframeworks drop down along with autosuggest fields are presented. However each implementation / Webframework has its own specifics.
In such case we do:
deep analysis of the element structures and behaviours by using
UiExplorer and/or Browser Developert Tools (F12)
tracing what a manual selection is doing at the element level
often a discrete interaction is not supported and so we try fix it by imitating the manually entering. For such scenario we check on alternate entering paths like key up/down, ENTER, TAB.
Still a few details on the needed result a still unclear to us. But you can already start the deeper analysis rounds as mentioned above
I don’t think Type Into or Select Item will work here. Type Into may work for 2–3 values, but not for multiple selections.
You should use the Check/Uncheck activity to select the values. For testing, try selecting 3–4 values from the dropdown using checkboxes pick them randomly from top to bottom. If that works, then we can extend the logic to read values from a file.
