I saw in Expression Engine I can use {embed:title} and {site_name} variables, but now I need a variable to pull an excerpt or description of the article itself. Is there such a variable/tag?
ExpressionEngine tags are based solely on custom fields which you yourself have defined. So in the field group for your "articles" channel, you'll have some fields, maybe {article_summary}, {article_body}, {article_image}, etc. To display your summary, just use {article_summary} in your template.
I'm assuming that you're coming from something like WordPress maybe, where every piece of content has the_content() and the_excerpt() ... aside from a handful of global variables, and some fields which are universal to all entries (like {title}, {entry_date}, etc), ExpressionEngine isn't like that. You define what fields you use for each channel - you have complete control.
Here is the actual code you have to include in your EE template.
{exp:channel:entries channel="article" limit="5" dynamic="no"}
<div class="home_thumb">
<h1>{title}</h1>
<div class="home_thumb_img">
<img src="{article_image}">
{if article_content}
<p>{article_content}</p>
{/if}
</div>
</div>
{/exp:channel:entries}
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Looking for the best approach to enter / read a value from a form field that lacks human readable ids / references.
The basic outline looks like
<div id="form-2143">
<div id="numberfield-1234">
<label id="numberfield-1234-label">
<span class="x-form-label">Field Name 1</span>
</label>
<div id="numberfield-1234-body">
<div id="numberfield-1234-wrap">
<input id="numberfield-1234-input" class="form-field" componentid="numberfield-1234">
</div>
</div>
</div>
...
</div>
There are more class defs and attributes involved, but above is the "basics" I have to work with.
This form has a number of entries, and there are more forms like it, so I am looking for a way to search for the label name, and access the input field within the same container.
I lack control of the site and cannot edit the HTML structure of the site; meaning I cannot give sensible names to the ids, but want to avoid hard referencing the poor names. Any suggestions on how to get Robot Framework & selenium to reference these elements?
Highlighting Andersson's answer in the comments
Using the XPath
//label[span[text()="Field Name 1"]]/following-sibling::div//input
Works for the above example.
The key part that answers the question of how to reference nearby elements is
/following-sibling
We want to add custom fields that can be modified on the back end, yet also populate on the front end using custom fields. We have tried following, yet the fields didn't populate on the front end. See below for examples of the code and corresponding output:
Example Code
Result
How can we get these fields to properly populate on the front end?
I would start by reading the BigCommerce Stencil Documentation. The way you are calling the custom field values is not how they suggest calling these values.
The custom_fields are only accessible on the product detail page at this time in Stencil.
To display them on the product detail page, you can loop through each custom_field value with the following code.
{{#each product.custom_fields}}
<dt class="productView-info-name">{{name}}:</dt>
<dd class="productView-info-value">{{{value}}}</dd>
{{/each}}
You can check to see what values are available on each page by either reading the Stencil docs linked above, or debugging your page by removing the closing '/' and adding '?debug=bar' to the end of your localhost URL. Refresh your page and you will see all available store data in JSON format below the rendered page.
For more control over which custom field you output where you can create a reusable loop.
i.e. Create templates/components/products/custom-fields.html
{{#each product.custom_fields}}
{{#if name '===' ../custom_field}}
{{{value}}}
{{/if}}
{{/each}}
Then from your product_view.html you can specify the field value to output with a single line:
{{> components/products/custom-field custom_fields='custom field name'}}
I'm having a little difficulty with this, I'm hoping maybe someone has some ideas. It's a very complex situation, but I'll try to simplify and nutshell it here.
Let's say that I have a directive that generates several elements, for example, a Label and a Textbox. This directive will need to generate different content in differtag ent scenarious.
The problem with a directive that has more than one element in it is that you can't use the "replace:true" tag unless you wrap everything in one element. "replace" doesn't like multiple root elements. If you don't use the "replace" option then the tag that generates the directive becomes the containing element.
I don't want all these extra tags. It's breaking my CSS and generating unnecessary content. So instead of this:
<div ng-repeat="s in something">
<my-directive>
<label><input>
</my-directive>
<my-directive>
<label><input>
</my-directive>
<my-directive>
<label><input>
</my-directive>
</div><!-- End repeat -->
I want this:
<div ng-repeat="s in something">
<label><input>
<label><input>
<label><input>
</div><!-- End repeat -->
I hope this question makes sense.
Each product has the custom fields options. Can I output those custom fields on each product item in the product list page? If so, how? I have tried adding the ProductOtherDetails and the %%SNIPPET_ProductCustomFieldItem%% in the CategoryProductsItem.html, but got no output at all of any of the items I have tried. Any suggestions or pointers on how and if this is possible?
As of September 2015, you can now access %%GLOBAL_ProductCustomFields%% on any template file that renders a particular panel's individual items. For example:
-Snippets/CategoryProductsItem.html for category list pages
-Snippets/HomeFeaturedProductsItem.html for the featured products panel
I recommend adding the custom field name as a class to each field for easy hiding, and accessing of the value in case the custom fields ever change you won't be accessing them via :nth-child CSS which would break. You can do so by modify Snippets/ProductCustomFieldItem.html to add the custom field name to the CSS class or ID like this:
<div class="DetailRow %%GLOBAL_CustomFieldName%%">
<div class="Label">%%GLOBAL_CustomFieldName%%:</div>
<div class="Value">
%%GLOBAL_CustomFieldValue%%
</div>
</div>
Doing so, will output like this in each item in the category list.
Above, I am using the custom fields to send through shipping time, as well as "Starting At" to prepend to the list page price if the item is a parent which has children of higher prices. In my opinion, these features greatly increase the user experience.
For Faceted Search (handlebars.js)
I recommend adding this to Panels/FacetedSearchProductGrid.html:
{{#each product.custom_fields}}
{{ id }} : {{ name }} : {{ value }}
{{/each}}
Those filters will be limited to the Product pages specifically. The only way around it is to hash together a solution using jQuery to go and fetch items in question from the product page. A pain, but do-able with unnecessary effort.
Only the content of the div is unique. So, in the following dynamically generated html, only "My Article-1245" is unique:
<div class="col-md-4 article">
<h2>
My Article-1245
Delete
Edit
</h2>
<p>O ephemeral text! Here today, gone tomorrow. Not terribly important, but necessary</p>
</div>
How do I select the edit/delete link of this specific div, using Selenium? assertText/verifyText requires an element locator, but I do not have any unique id/name (out of my control). There will be many such div blocks, with other content text, all dynamically generated.
Any help would be appreciated.
If text 'My Article' appears each time, you may use following:
//For Delete
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//h2[contains(text(),'My Article-')]/a[text()='Delete']"));
//For Edit
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//h2[contains(text(),'My Article-')]/a[text()='Edit']"));
Hope it meets your requirement :)
Matching by text is always a bad automated testing concept. If you want to keep clean and reliable test scripts, then :
Contact your web dev to add unique identifiers to the elements
Suck it up, and create selectors based on what's there.
You are able to create a CSS selector based on what you want.
What you should do is create the selector using parent-child relationships:
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("div.article:nth-child(X) a[href^='delete']"));
As I am ignorant of your appp, this is also assuming that all of your article classes are under the same parent. You would substitute X with the number of the div you want to refer to. e.g.:
<div id="someparent">
<div class="...article" />
<div class="...article" />
...
</div>