I would like to write web pages that have links to Rally issues (Test Cases, Defects, etc). I would like to be able to generate a URL with the FormattedID. Is this possible? Or do I really need the objectID? For example:
http://rally1.rallydev.com/363953481d/detail/testcase/TC1665
(or something like that, instead of the cryptic object id)
The following allows users to go directly to the detail page of a work product without having to know the Object ID:
https://rally1.rallydev.com/#/search?keywords=US1234
This relies on a feature of Rally's search functionality and isn't officially supported - so the above URL isn't guaranteed to work forever. However it's a decent way to use Formatted ID's as a workaround.
Searching by just keyword will give you the item with that ID and related items (e.g. other items that mention the desired ID in their name). Sometimes this is fine, sometimes not.
To search for DE75700 and DE72760 only, and no others use
https://rally1.rallydev.com/#/search?keywords=FormattedID%3ADE75700%20FormattedID%3ADE72760
This is equivalent to manually typing
FormattedID:DE75700 FormattedID:DE72760
in the Rally search box.
As a corollary to the main answer I have defined a Chrome browser bookmark which will take me right to any Rally item by its ID.
The URL for this bookmark in full is:
javascript:(function(){window.location = "https://rally1.rallydev.com/#/search?keywords=" + prompt("Enter ID:");})();
When this bookmark is activated, it prompts you like so:
I find this to be a huge time saver.
Thanks to Displaying a prompt from javascript Chrome bookmark.
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I need to fetch company addresses(cim) from site http://www.ceginfo.hu/
Example Company Name: AB-KONTÍR Szolgáltató Bt.
I know how to do it using WinHttp.WinHttpRequest object and FireBug.
But I am not able to decide to which URL I should send this request.
When I analyse the request/responses using FireBug, I get the following URL:
http://www.ceginfo.hu/company/search/4221638
4221638 is CompanyID here I think. But in my case I will have company name only and that's what my problem is.
So can anybody please tell me where can I get URL using firebug or any other tool using which I can track the URL with Company Name as parameter which I can use in my VBA code.
Thanks in advance!
So can anybody please tell me where can I get URL using firebug or any
other tool using which I can track the URL with Company Name as
parameter which I can use in my VBA code.
No. Unless there is a publicly available database (I would suggest calling them, if you can) or an API that allows for programmatic access, the only way to arrive at this link slug is by executing the search.
Further, the post slog is not as relevant as you think. If you search for simply "Kontir", this is the resulting page -- with many results:
http://www.ceginfo.hu/company/search/4222407
You're going to have to automate the "search" -- passing the criteria to the Web Page and executing the button-click and/or HTTPPost, and then parse the result(s). In the example company name, there is only one result. But it is possible as in my example above, that there may be multiple matches for some queries, and then you will need to have a method of dealing with these, or ignoring them.
I have a product code which I need to enter into 6 different websites in order to pull different information from them about the product. Is there away to save this product code into some sort of variable and pass it into each websites input box and it return all the information from each one automatically? Really have no idea where to go/start with this so if anyone can brainstorm a few ideas to get me moving that would be great.
In order get what you are planning for:
You need a script which visits the specified web site,
then at the website, you can get the element by tag.
For instance in javascript,
var textBox = document.getElementByTag(Input);
This will give you a reference to text field to enter the text. It can be done as follows:
textBox.value = "any string";
Once you have done this, you will have to retrieve the results from the page, based on the website layout.
So if you can specify about your work in detail, you would get better response.
Assuming you're talking about using an ordinary GUI browser, the best you can do is copy it to your system clipboard, and paste it into each page on the browser.
If you're talking about a programmatic web-access like wget or curl, it depends on what language you are writing your script in.
you have to create the web request for each web site and find a way to parse the response which will be HTML
have a look at the HttpWebRequest you can find lots of example on internet that shows how you can create an HTTP POST to a website.
http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2008/05/05/send-a-https-post-request-with-c/
I've been taking a quick look at QTP with one of our test team.
We've figured out some basics like recording a test, capturing text using output values, putting in check points, etc.
However, I can't figure out how to do the following...
We have a web form which a user fills in and submits. This will create an item and assign it an ID in the database. We can capture this ID.
A subsequent page then shows a list of all items, with a link available to open a specific item. This is a simple hyperlink on a web page.
How do I:
Check that a link exists on the page with the ID assigned from the creation step?
Click that link?
I'm sure that this must be possible, but I've been struggling grokking the tool so far, so this is a shameless cry for help to save me from having to study the docs.
Thanks.
Quickly look on Web GUI recognition principles in QTP. Get to the descriptive programming part.
Find Help for Link object in QTP.
Define your target Link object using descriptive programming.
It should be something like
Set objTargetLink = Browser("title:=...").Page("title:=...").Frame("title:=...").Link("id:=target_id")
Use
boolRC = objTargetLink.Exist(0)
To check if your link exists.
Use
sURL = objTargetLink.GetTOProperty("url")
to retrieve the actual url. You may get other properties the same way.
Use objTargetLink.Click to click on the link.
PS. Functional Test Automation is something different, though.
Ask your testing team to read about automation frameworks and automation requirements.
I have some stuff on my blog.
http://automation-beyond.com/2009/06/06/qa-test-automation-requirements-usability/
Thank you,
Albert Gareev
http://automation-beyond.com/
As the question states, I'm trying to figure out how google tracks clicks on search results. When you view the source, you find the following:
<em>Yahoo</em>!
The function rwt is, which is pretty messy:
windows.rwt=function(b,d,e,g,h,f,i,j){
var a=encodeURIComponent||escape,c=b.href.split("#");
b.href=["/url?sa=t\x26source\x3dweb",d?"&oi="+a(d):"",e?"&cad="+a(e):"","&ct=",a(g),"&cd=",a(h),"&url=",a(c[0]).replace(/\+/g,"%2B"),"&ei=7_C2SbqXBMW0-AbU4OWnCw",f?"&usg="+f:"",i,c[1]?"#"+c[1]:""].join("");
b.onmousedown="";
return true};
So it looks like Google is changing the href of the a tag to /url?... which I'm assuming is where their tracking is. From LiveHeaders in Firefox, it looks like this page is redirecting the browser to the original href of the a tag.
Is this correct and is this the best method of tracking clicks on links on your site, such as ads?
It's actually changing the href of the link rather than the window location. It's setting b.href, and b refers to the link itself. This runs in onmousedown, so when you release the mouse and the click is handled you magically get sent to that new href.
Any click tracking pretty much comes down to sending the user to some equivalent of Google's /url?... script, counting the click, and performing a 302 redirect to the real destination.
This javascript href replacement has the advantage of automatically filtering out any robots that don't run scripts. The downside is that it also filters out any real people that have javascript disabled. If, like Google, you just care which link is most popular with your real human users, this works out quite well. The clicks that you do record should be representative of real human traffic, and you can safely ignore the clicks from non-javascript users because they probably have the same preferences anyway.
Most adverts just link straight to the counting URL with no javascript replacement. This means that you definitely count every real click on the link, but you need to worry about filtering out requests from robots, since they'll now see your counting URL too.
Which you prefer really depends on why you want to track the clicks.
I think most people expect ads to click through via some sort of tracking system, so I shouldn't worry too much about following this particular javascript implementation - as much as anything that's probably there to ensure that the user sees the correct link in the browsers status bar, that various other interesting bits of info (search terms, position on the result set at the time, who you are, etc) are sent across (without you realising it) and that the links still work if JavaScript is disabled.
Generally, yes directing the user through some tracking page with the ID of the ad they have clicked on, and possibly some additional indication of where they have come from is sensible - that way you aren't relying on other mechanisms (such as JS event handlers) to track clicks on the links, it's certainly the way most ad systems I've used work.
Some e-Marketing tools claim to choose which web page to display based on where you were before. That is, if you've been browsing truck sites and then go to Ford.com, your first page would be of the Ford Explorer.
I know you can get the immediate preceding page with HTTP_REFERRER, but how do you know where they were 6 sites ago?
Javascript this should get you started: http://www.dicabrio.com/javascript/steal-history.php
There are more nefarius means to: http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070228/steal-browser-history-without-javascript/
Edit:I wanted to add that although this works it is a sleazy marketing teqnique and an invasion of privacy.
Unrelated but relevant, if you only want to look one page back and you can't get to the headers of a page, then document.referrer gives you the place a visitor came from.
You can't access the values for the entries in browser history (neither client side nor server side). All you can do is to send the browser back or forward a number of steps. The entries of the history are otherwise hidden from programmatic access.
Also note that HTTP_REFERER won't be there if the user typed the address in the URL bar instead of following a link to your page.
The browser history can't be directly accessed, but you can compare a list of sites with the user's history. This can be done because the browser attributes a different CSS style to a link that hasn't been visited and one that has.
Using this style difference you can change the content of you pages using pure CSS, but in general javascript is used. There is a good article here about using this trick to improve the user experience by displaying only the RSS aggregator or social bookmarking links that the user actually uses: http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/02/browser-history-sniff.html