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answered on 07 Jun 2010, 07:29 PM

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Hi Svetlana,

Thanks for the question and based on yout previous posts, I am assuming you are trying to search rows within a RadGrid like this demo page.

If so, please try the following coded solution:

- Highlight and add the grid to your test project (see attached screenshot also for reference):
- The grid will be added to your project and should look like this in the Elements Explorer Window:
All Pages -> ASPNETGridDemo -> RadGrid1Div
- You can then find the cell you want by content, then get the row as the cell's parent. Please see the following coded step example based on the demo page:

//Add your test methods here...

[CodedStep("MyCustom Step Description")]

public void MyCustomStep()

{

GridDataCell c = Pages.ASPNETGridDemo.RadGrid1Div.Find.ByExpression<GridDataCell>("TextContent=Chai");

GridDataItem i = c.Parent<GridDataItem>();

int r = i.RowIndex;

}

The code finds the first row in the demo page by the cell content 'Chai', finds it's parent row, then int r is the row index. There are other properties in GridDataItem i you can use as well.

Please let us know if you have any questions on the above.

Best wishes,
Nelson Sin
the Telerik team

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answered on 08 Jun 2010, 11:40 AM

Hi Nelson,

1) I've got an error on execution of "GridDataItem i = c.Parent<GridDataItem>();" string.

Error text:
InnerException:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at SFT.New_Test3.New_Test3_CodedStep() in c:\Users\Documents\WebUI Test Studio Projects\SFT\New Test3.aii.cs:line 85

I tried to replace <GridDataItem> with <Telerik.WebAii.Controls.Html.GridDataItem> but the result the same :(

2) And seems that "Find.ByExpression<GridDataCell>" expression does not work because I haven't got the error when not matching value was entered.

Regards,
Svetlana

answered on 08 Jun 2010, 06:03 PM

Hello again Svetlana,

1) So the example page has that particular implementation and example code was based on it's Dom. Please check your page's implementation and the Dom Explorer to see what kind of html control you would need in your test code.

For example, you can also use the control HtmlTableRow r = c.Parent<HtmlTableRow>(); since the html tag is also a <TR>

2) I'm not exactly sure exactly what you mean with your question, but if the GridDataCell is not found by TextContent, then you would need to handle a null reference exception.

Thanks,
Nelson
the Telerik team

answered on 09 Jun 2010, 06:59 PM

Hello Svetlana,

What is it you want to do with the span element?

Assuming 'c' represents the DataGridCell that contains the span element (i.e. just this portion of your sample source code):

<td class="NoHorizontalPadding">

<span title="Not present today" class="StNotPre">

</td>

then you can locate the span element with this like of code:

HtmlSpan mySpan = c.Find.ByExpression<HtmlSpan>("title=Not present today");

Greetings,
Cody
the Telerik team

answered on 13 Jul 2010, 04:08 PM

Hello Telerik team,

I have one more question on Searching in RadGrid.
There is the following content in Grid data cell:
<td valign="middle">
 New
 
 17/06/2010 to 18/06/2010
</td>

How to find the cell in grid by value in "strong" tag?

Seems that the value does not included in "TextContent", because

GridDiv.Find.ByExpression<Telerik.WebAii.Controls.Html.GridDataCell>("TextContent=New 17/06/2010 to 18/06/2010");
- returns error.

Could you, please, write correct expression?

Regards,
Svetlana

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answered on 14 Jul 2010, 04:43 PM

Hi Svetlana,

You are very close to the right coded solution. You need to make two modifications:

Use InnerText instead of TextContent. There is a subtle but important difference between the two. TextContent looks only at the text at the same level. Whereas InnerText is recursive. it will be all text combined for the current element and all the text contained in subelements. In your example "New" is the InnerText for just the element and "17/06/2010 to 18/06/2010" is the TextContent for the <td> element. InnerText is the two concatenated together i.e. "New17/06/2010 to 18/06/2010".
Note that InnerText doesn't have a space between "New" and the date. Thus your second change would be to remove that space resulting in this line of code:

GridDiv.Find.ByExpression<HtmlTableCell>("InnerText=New17/06/2010 to 18/06/2010");

Alternatively you could just remove the "New " part (including the space) from your current line of code. Then TextContent would match the date string of your sample.

Greetings,
Cody
the Telerik team

answered on 17 Aug 2010, 09:21 AM

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Hi Nataly,

Is it the actual element you want to verify, or the text contained in a specific grid item? If you want to assert a row has been added correctly to the grid you can use the items count verification. This shows the number of items in the current page. The other option is to verify the number of total items via the pager text. Screenshots are attached to illustrate both cases. Let me know if that helps.

Sincerely yours,
Pavel
the Telerik team

answered on 17 Aug 2010, 11:03 AM

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Hi Nataly,

In that case I think you need to use Data cell text verification. Note that in order for it to search for a text in a specific cell you need to modify your Find logic settings so that the tag index has higher priority than text content. Otherwise the location of the element is done by its content which does not guarantee that the cell is in specific place in the Grid.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Pavel
the Telerik team

answered on 18 Aug 2010, 07:28 AM

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Hi Nataly,

You can edit the element's find expression via elements explorer. I am attaching screenshots for illustration. Your find expression needs to be similar to the one in the attached file. Let me know if that helps.

Sincerely yours,
Pavel
the Telerik team

answered on 18 Aug 2010, 09:24 AM

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Hi Nataly,

I am sorry but it seems I have misunderstood you. Now to clarify your requirement, you need to verify a Grid Item by its content, however the content may be different on each execution, and the location of the item may also vary, is that correct?

If the value is variable, but there is a way to extract it (I am not familiar with your exact scenario, but I am guessing there should be some way to do that), you can locate the element with code in a similar way:

[CodedStep(@"RadGridDataCell(''): cell content verification ")]

public void VerifyGridCellContent()

{

string cellContent;

//logic to get the cell content here and assign it to the sting variable

GridDataCell myCell = Find.ByContent<GridDataCell>(cellContent);

Assert.IsTrue(myCell.CellText == cellContent);

}

Note that in order to ensure that the Grid is updated before executing this step it is recommended to add a step that verifies that the control is not longer in insert mode. A screenshot is attached for illustration. This should prevent any synchronization issues where the cell is not yet present on the page.

Let me know if I am missing something else.

Greetings,
Pavel
the Telerik team

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