I am manually writing some scripts to test a web application with Coded UI. What is the best way to know which HtmlControl tag I should be using for the elements I want to manipulate? For example, how can I easily tell if I should be using HtmlDiv or HtmlSpan, etc? I know that the tag gives a hint, but is there an easier way to do this?
Try using the object recorder that comes with CUITe. That records the object properties for you as well for easy copy/paste.
Use browser development mode (like firebug in Firefox) to identify what is what.
You can also use inspect.exe application (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd318521(v=vs.85).aspx) to help with other windows that are not a browser.
Try to extract object information with ExecuteScript method of BrowserWindow
object control = BrowserWindow.ExecuteScript("return $('#yourControlId');");
if your control is of Type HtmlCustom then on hover on return type it will display CustomType[Custom] or CustomType[Span] for HtmlSpan then you can easily cast it to the appropriate control.
If you have only HtmlDiv and HtmlSpan control then you can use generic method as well perform any action on them
protected void PerformAction(object control)
{
object htmlControl = ((List<object>)control)[0];
HtmlDiv htmldiv = htmlControl as HtmlDiv;
HtmlSpan htmlspan = null;
if (htmldiv == null)
{
htmlspan = htmlControl as HtmlSpan ;
if (htmlspan != null){
// Write your action
}
}
if (htmldiv == null && htmlspan == null) return;
// Do your code
}
On hover it you can get your control info as in attached screenshot.
Related
Suppose I want to pass one object (reference) through several pages. I can navigate and pass parameters via Frame.Navigate(typeof(FirstPage), object). But how to pass the reference back on back press properly?
protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e) {
if (e.Parameter is SomeClass) {
this.someObject = (SomeClass)e.Parameter;
}
else {
this.someObject = new SomeClass();
}
SystemNavigationManager.GetForCurrentView().AppViewBackButtonVisibility = AppViewBackButtonVisibility.Visible;
SystemNavigationManager.GetForCurrentView().BackRequested += OnHardwareButtonsBackPressed;
base.OnNavigatedTo(e);
}
private void OnHardwareButtonsBackPressed(object sender, BackRequestedEventArgs e) {
// This is the missing line!
Frame.Navigate(typeof(FirstPage), this.someObject);
}
But when I press back button it goes back to the FirstPage OnNavigatedTo with no parameter, and then back to the SecondPage OnHardwareButtonsBackPressed and then back to FirstPage OnNavigatedTo with filled parameter.
Could you please advice me some better approach?
In your back handler, don't navigate forwards again, just call GoBack -- and it's typically easier if you handle that at a global level rather than at a page level.
You can store your application state (the things you want to persist across page navigations) in global / static objects, or you could directly modify the object that was passed from the initial navigation (if the calling page still has a reference, it will be able to see the changes).
I would consider doing a search for "MVVM Windows Apps" and looking at some of the results to learn about a common way of building XAML apps.
I am upgrading some software from 16 bit to 32 bit in VC++ using MFC, and I understand that in recent versions of MFC I can no longer access m_templateList in CDocTemplate, I must use GetFirstDocTemplatePosition and GetNextDocTemplate instead. That is no problem as far as enumerating templates is concerned (a dialog being opened only in the case where there is more than one template). My question is what approach is best to get round the fact that a reference to the template list is currently being passed to the dialog on creation, and a selected template is being returned? Here is the code:
void CMtApp::OnFileNew()
{
CString s;
if (m_templateList.IsEmpty())
{
TRACE0("Error : no document templates registered with CWinApp\n");
AfxMessageBox(AFX_IDP_FAILED_TO_CREATE_DOC);
return;
}
CDocTemplate* pTemplate = (CDocTemplate*)m_templateList.GetHead();
if (m_templateList.GetCount() > 1)
{
// more than one document template to choose from
// bring up dialog prompting user
COpenTypeDlg dlg(&m_templateList);
if (dlg.DoModal() != IDOK)
return; // none - cancel operation
pTemplate = dlg.m_pSelectedTemplate;
pTemplate->GetDocString(s, CDocTemplate::docName);
}
ASSERT(pTemplate != NULL);
ASSERT(pTemplate->IsKindOf(RUNTIME_CLASS(CDocTemplate)));
m_bNew = TRUE;
pTemplate->OpenDocumentFile(NULL);
}
You can pass the CWinApp to the dialog's ctor and the dialog can GetFirstDocTemplatePosition and GetNextDocTemplate itself. But you don't really need to pass the CWinApp because the dialog can use AfxGetApp to get it itself.
If you insist on passing a template list then build your own list based on what GetFirstDocTemplatePosition and GetNextDocTemplate return.
I have an editable text web part on a page template. It has a custom HTML envelope before and after the text. How can I hide the whole thing, envelope included, if the editable text is empty?
I need to hide it because the envelope adds stylized markup that shouldn't be visible when there is no text.
Can it be done with a K# snippet on the Visible property? I'm unclear how interrogating a document's property works.
Thanks!
Try this as the "Visible" property:
{% (ViewMode != "LiveSite") || (CMSContext.CurrentDocument.editabletext != "") #%}
Change "editabletext" to whatever you have for your web part control ID.
I'm not familiar with Kentico but these solutions might help. They may not address your problem specifically but might aid in a solution.
CMSEditableImage Extension Method
I came up with a way to check this, I added an extension method for
the CMSEditableImage class that takes the CurrentPage PageInfo object
to check the value of the editable region, don't know if this is the
best way or not, but here's the code.
public static bool IsPopulated(this CMSEditableImage editableImage, PageInfo currentPage)
{
bool isPopulated = false;
string value = currentPage.EditableItems.EditableRegions[editableImage.ID.ToLower()].ToString();
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
{
value = value.ToUpper();
isPopulated = (value == "<IMAGE><PROPERTY NAME=\"IMAGEPATH\"></PROPERTY></IMAGE>") ? false : true;
}
return isPopulated;
}
via http://devnet.kentico.com/Forums/f19/fp5/t4454/Empty-CMSEditableImage.aspx
JavaScript Method
The webcontainer needs an id, example:
<h2 id="webpart-header">Headline</h2>
Then I have a small javascript function that is attached in an
external js file:
/* Hide Webcontainer via javascript if empty*/
function hideLayer(element) {
elem = document.getElementById( element );
elem.style.display = "none";
}
Now in the wep part configuration, at no data behaviour, you uncheck the checkbox and call the js function by entering following
script in the no record found text: hideLayer("webpart-header");
Whereby webpart-header the id name of your container is. You could
also have a more complex <div> structure here.
via http://devnet.kentico.com/Forums/f22/fp3/t4180/Webcontainer-and-hide-if-no-data.aspx
I have implemented List.cshtml to provide a custom display for an image gallery. This is the first time I have tried to override a Projection with a Template and at first it seemed to work fine. Then I noticed that when I try to access the Projection on the backend Orchard 1.7 falls over with:
RuntimeBinderException 'Orchard.ContentManagement.ContentItem' does
not contain a definition for 'TagsPart'
Here is some code from the template List.cshtml:
List<TagRecord> uniqueTags = new List<TagRecord>();
List<dynamic> items = Model.Items;
if (items != null && items.Any())
{
foreach (var item in items)
{
if (item != null && item.ContentItem != null)
{
TagsPart part = item.ContentItem.TagsPart;
if (part != null && part.CurrentTags != null)
{
foreach (var t in part.CurrentTags)
{
if (!uniqueTags.Contains(t))
{
uniqueTags.Add(t);
}
}
}
}
}
I am ignorant on a couple of points, which I suspect may be causing the error:
How to specify a template for a Projection (more specific than 'List.cshtml'). Can I use Placement.info? How?
How should I test for the presence of a specific part in the ContentItem? Just assigning TagsPart part = item.ContentItem.TagsPart; throws the exception above.
UPDATE: I had implemented this as a Module; that is, the List.cshtml was in the Views folder of a simple Module. If I move List.cshtml to the Theme then the problem goes away. However, I would still prefer to use a module so that the layout is independent of the theme.
Orchard 1.7 includes a new query layout provider called 'Shape'. I simply used this provider, gave it a Shape Type of 'LightboxIsotope', and created a view called 'LightboxIsotope.cshtml'.
In a projection you can customize the html rendered for each property on the List. In order to acomplish this you need to go to your query, and add a new Layout, choose the properties you need, and set everything you want.
If the layouts provided in the Queries Module don´t fullfill your requirements, you can allways create your own layout provider, this blog post shows an example:
http://www.stevetaylor.me.uk/image-carousel-using-twitter-bootstrap-and-orchard-cms-projections
I'm trying to hide the "Title" field in a list.
This doesn't seem to work:
SPList myList;
...
SPField titleField = myList.Fields.GetField("Title");
//titleField.PushChangesToLists = true; <-- doesn't seem to make a difference
titleField.ShowInEditForm = false;
titleField.ShowInDisplayForm = false;
titleField.ShowInNewForm = false;
titleField.Update();
//myList.Update(); <-- make no difference
What am I doing wrong?
Try this:
field.Hidden = true;
field.Update();
None of the above examples of setting Hidden true will work unless CanToggleHidden has a value of true. The problem is, CanToggleHidden only has a Get, not a Set, so you have to perform a radical "SharePoint programming gymnastics stunt" using reflection to first flip CanToggleHidden from false to true. Once you have done that, you can change Hidden to true (or back to false). There are plenty of examples out on the web (although not all of them are written correctly). If needed, I can probably dig up a PowerShell example that works.
if(field.CanToggleHidden) {
field.Hidden = false;
}
else
{
// display an error message or write to your favorite logging location
// explaining that there is no hope of changing the value of Hidden until
// CanToggleHidden changes to TRUE first.
}
Make sure you are grabbing a new SPWeb instance.
using (SPSite site = new SPSite(webUrl))
{
using (SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb())
{
try
{
//... Get SPList ...
}
}
}
I believe visibility of fields in lists are controlled by the default view that the user "gets". Don't you want to modify the view? I know you can get the Views for a list, as well as the default view.
I'm just spit-balling here...
There is a price you pay when you use Hidden property.
It's been discovered that setting a column hidden will remove the ability to delete it via code.
try this one this will work...
Title field is named as LinkTitle...
other fields can be hidden in the same way.
SPView view = list.DefaultView;
if(view.ViewFields.Exists("LinkTitle"))
{
view.ViewFields.Delete("LinkTitle");
view.Update();
}
The solution above is for hiding the field everywhere. It will also be hidden in the column overview of your list.
If you only want to hide the field in a particular list. Or if you still to manipulate the field (set back to visible) by using the list settings page. You need to set the "Hidden" property of the field in the "FieldLinks" property of the list.
myList.FieldLinks["SomeField"].Hidden = true;