Solutions to common Test Designer IDE Challenges

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  // Suppose you have a span with the value $19.99 but you need validate the number is greated than 15.
  Store                |  $stringValue    |  getText(span("carttotal"))     // "$19.99"Store                |  $floatingValue  |  parseFloat($stringValue.substring(1))   // removes the $ then convertes "19.99" to a floating number 
  Assert Greater Than  |  $floatingValue  |  15

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  1. ReproduceStore | $integerValue | parseInt(span("item-quantity"))

  
  Tables: getting the issuenumber of rows in a smalltable runusing ds$

  // Assuming the table has an id myTable you can get the number of rows in the IDE using: 
  Store  |  $rowsQuantity  |  _eval("ds$('#myTable tbody > tr').length")
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  Store  |  $rowsQuantity  |  getLength("ds$('#myTable tbody > tr')")

  An alternate way is to use the getLength function:

  // Assuming the table has an id myTable you can get the number of rows in the IDE using: 
  Store  |  $rowsQuantity  |  getLength("#myTable tbody > tr")

  Tables: getting the column index with a given header using ds$

  // You can use the jQuery index() function to find the column index of a table that contains certain text "MyHeader". REF: https://api.jquery.com/index/
  Store  |  $columnIndex  |  _eval("ds$('thead th:contains(MyHeader)').index()")+1

  Tables: Iterate over a table to process all the cells values of a given column using ds$

  // If you need to iterate over a table column to process the contents of a certain column you can use above functions to get the total number of 
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• Confirmcolumn that has the appropiate heade and then: Store | $rowIndex | 1 While | $rowIndex < $rowsQuantity Store | $cellValue | _eval("ds$('tbody tr:nth-child("+$rowIndex+") td:nth-child("+$columnIndex+")').text()") [ do something with $cellValue ] Store | $rowIndex | $rowIndex + 1 End While

General: close browser window.

// If the application isdoes reachablenot provide a button to close the window, need to insert
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CustomJS  |  "ds$('body').append('<a id=\"aiq-close\" href=\"javascript:close_window();\">aiq-close</a>')"Click     |  link("aiq-close")

General: get an attribute value of an element

Store     |   $url   |  getAttribute(link("id"),"href")

General: confirm an element is valid.

Set changes,FindOnlyEnabled  shared|  helpers,false      | 
Store                |  submitdis  |  getAttribute(button("cancellation-submit"),"disabled")
Set FindOnlyEnabled  |  true       | 
Assert Equal         |  submitdis  |  "disabled"

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Set Value           |  textbox("form-control")  | $caseNum
Click               |  submit("Search")         |  
Store               |  caseName                 | getText(cell(1,_near(span(["caseNameLabel"]))))
Click               |  link($caseNum)           |
Select Window       |  caseName                 |

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