Greetings !
I use selenium WebDriver to automate the browser , and in one of the particular flow when i click on a button it opens a PDF file in the UI...This PDF file i wont be able to handle with the webdriver commands..... fine.. So i go with the option of AutoIT to close this PDF file window and to proceed further with the webdriver commands present in the same java class....
But it looks not working for me , the autoIt script which i execute is not closing the pdf window..
I tried it many times by trying diff options,for ex: with scripts something below ..but no luck... Please share me if you are aware of how to handle this...
WinWait("[CLASS=AcrobatSDIWindow]") WinActivate("[CLASS=AcrobatSDIWindow]")
WinClose("[CLASS=AcrobatSDIWindow]")
Many Thanks in advance ~Musaffir
It looks working well for me now , autoit script with almost same line of codes as i posted in the question
WinWaitActive("[CLASS:AcrobatSDIWindow]")
WinActivate("[CLASS:AcrobatSDIWindow]")
WinClose("[CLASS:AcrobatSDIWindow]")
we need to run this script first in selenium java class, so when a pdf window comes in the UI,it just closes it
To run in the java code use: Runtime.getRuntime().exec("E:\\Auto_IT_Scripts_New\\Close_PDF_File.exe");
This will run the script in the system... and the script run stops once the file has been closed
Thanks,
Musaffir
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I am struggling with a problem.
I need to download PDF file when the Print dialog appears.
Here is an example of the dialog
I have tried both the chrome and firefox drivers. But unfortunately still cannot get it working.
I have found the following preference for the firefox
fp.setPreference("print.print_to_file", true);
But it seems that it doesn't work.
It doesn't even get applied into the configuration variables set.
Please suggest any way to automate some actions with selenium and then save to PDF file when this print dialog appears.
Firstly, you need to know selenium is a web automation tool. so it can only operate things belongs to browser. Even that, it can't operate all things belongs to browser, like address bar, favior bar, menu bar of browser.
For most case, the print dialog is not belongs to browser, it supplyed by OS or other software installed on OS. so selenium can't operate it is reasonable.
If your script code by java, you can use java.awt.robot to capture the dialog
and click 'print to file'.
If java.awt.robot can worked as your expect, I think you aslo need to set browser options in your script to give a path for browser to save the printed file, just like when you download file, browse will ask you where to save.
if you not to set that options, i guess it will pop-up another dialog to ask you where to save and this dialog is also not belongs to browser.
it's not easy to use java.awt.robot to set the save path.
Because you need to consider the possbility of script run on different OS, use abosulte path is not workable on different OS. Besides if your script run with seleniu grid, it will make you craze. So if testing print to file feature is not important, i recommend you test it manuall.
You can automate Print to PDF using Testmate as below
http://thetestmate.com/save-as-pdf-in-chrome-testmate-selenium/
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There are many examples on what to do with file upload, however I could not find anything in selecting folder. Any ideas how to handle this ?
UPDATE:
I have tried 3 different ways but none worked :
the first is using sendkeys(). This does not work because there is no input field. This dialog opens when you click a button.
The second is using AutoIt, which is used in the uploading files dialog. It causes an error when i use it because I am not uploading a file but just selecting a folder.
the third is robot, where I copy the path I want to the clipboard and try to paste it with robot. It did not work for me.
Update 2:
If you open chrome://extensions/ on chrome browser and tick developer mode you will see a load unpacked extensions buttons. This is the button that when you click you get this windows dialog:
There are different ways by which you can handle File Upload :
Way 1:
WebElement fileInput = driver.findElement(By.name("uploadfile"));
fileInput.sendKeys("C:/path/to/file.jpg");
Way 2:
By using Robot Class API:
driver.findElement(By.By.name("uploadfile")).click();
Robot r = new Robot();
r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_KP_DOWN);
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_KP_DOWN);
r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_KP_RIGHT);
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_KP_RIGHT);
r.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
r.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
Hope it will help you
Selenium support is for Web browser and not for windows dialogs.
the only option for you is to write automation using coded UI or Autoit.
Selenium only works on Web browser, You can use AutoIT but I see you already tried it. In that case I would suggest you to use Sikuli.
In Selenium, When I try to open MS Word Document from Firefox browser, dialog box pop-ups which I am unable to identify through Selenium. Can any one please help me in identifying the dialog box (How to capture ID or window ID) through selenium?
You can use autoit.Just Download the autoit software from given link and install it.
AutoIt Site
Write a few lines script in autoit according to your need and call the compiled exe before the line which causes that window to appear.
The Autoit WIndow Info Tool will help you in identifying the ID and class for the desired controls.
Is there anyway function that will insert a capture screenshot function after every page event, such as pageload or selecting a dropdown. currently I am using selenium html files and feeding those to selenium rc but have to manually insert screenshots after every command. and if i edit the script i have to edit the screenshots again.
Use captureEntirePageScreenshot(String fileName, "")
filName should be absolute path of file location say "C:/foo/bar.png"
Better way would be to create a base folder and generate a string everytime you have to caputre screenshot
`captureEntirePageScreenshot(rootFolder+"/"+generatedString+".png","")
this works very well in firefox 3.6
I had this problem. I couldn't find a way to do this exactly, but I got around it by spawning a new thread at the start of each test that took a screen shot every half second, and killed that thread in the teardown.
I searched around and couldn't find how to test a file download box using capybara/cucumber?
The following image asks the question much clearer.
This was similar to another question I just answered, hope it helps Anybody have idea how to test file download using cucumber?
#Millisami Capybara::NotSupportedByDriverError Fixed for me!
What i had to do is removing the #javascript tag from my cucumber test, which was included. I mean:
#search
Scenario: Recieving a file
...
instead of
#search
#javascript
Scenario: Recieving a file
...
Hope it helps :-)
The download box is a function of the browser. Capybara simulates a browser but without all the UI etc.. (e.g. it looks like a browser to your application, so using it you'd mostly skip over the whole file download UI stuff. It would look to the browser like someone did whatever they needed to in order to tell the browser where to put the file and start the download)
If you are trying to test a download box, (beyond clicks needed to start the download) you are now testing the browser, not your application. As yourself if that's part of your charter and worth your time.
To actually test the download box you are going to have to have a browser instance going, and use a tool like Firewatir/Watir or Selenium, to actually 'drive' the browser, and some other gem to actually automate up at the OS UI level (on windows we usually use autoit) in order to click things and fill in values of the browser's file download UI.