Short version: new tabs in Chromeprevent old tabs from being used, fixing that means that opened tabs with PDFs in them get reused before a human can examine the PDFs.
Originally it worked like this: 1. open new Chrome window to main page of the app (tab #1) 2. [do process A and then] click the button and a new tab (tab #2) opens with PDF A in it. 3. Go back to tab #1 [do process B and then] click the button and a new tab (tab #3) opens with PDF B in it. 4. Go back to tab #1 [do process C and then] click the button and a new tab (tab #4) opens and Word document C document gets downloaded. 6. Go back to tab #1 [do process D and then] click the button and a new tab (tab #5) opens and Word document D document gets downloaded. All tabs stay open and PDFs can be viewed. Not perfect, but workable. But then things changed. I pulled frequently used stuff out, put them in methods in another file so all of the various tests could use them, which seemed like a good idea. But that seems to have caused problems with losing focus on the original window. (I may be wrong) now I'm stuck with: 1. open new Chrome window to main page of the app (tab #1) 2. [do process A and then] click the button and a new tab (tab #2) opens with PDF A in it. 3. Stay in tab #2 [do process B and then] click the button and a new tab (tab #3) opens with PDF B in it. PDF A is now lost 4. Stay in tab #3 [do process C and then] click the button and a new tab (tab #4) opens and Word document C document gets downloaded. PDF B is now lost 6. Stay in tab #4 [do process D and then] click the button and a new tab (tab #5) opens and Word document D document gets downloaded. This was caused by using "b.windows.last.use" So I tried using "b.windows.first.use" But that fails, because focus isn't going back to tab #1, and watir can't find the object in the modal that it needs to click. (in `assert_ok': Element is not clickable at point (737.5, -373) (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError)) So far as I can tell, I would be fine if I could do any one of the following 1) get PDFs to download. I cannot. This page<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/watir-general/gItPeAaWZWY>seemed promising, but the code didn't work and I couldn't fix it. 2) get watir to go back to the first page, "for realsies", and find the buttons it needs 3) perhaps open a new tab for every section of the test (I'm going to look into this one, but I'm not overly hopeful) Any ideas? I updated Watir and Ruby both within the last two months. I'm using Chrome on OSX. Moving to Windows or IE are not viable options. Here is a section of the code. No, I'm not a programmer first and foremost. # print Inventory Report .PDF b.goto currenturl b.div(:id, 'page').a(:text, 'Inventory Report').click sleep 1 b.div(:id, 'printInventoryReportModal').a(:text, 'A4').click b.link(:id => "submitBTNprint-inventory-report").fire_event "onclick" status = page_status(currenturl) # these are the methods that I pulled out passtest = section_results(currenturl,b) # and put in a shared file # print General List .PDF b.goto [main page URL] b.div(:id, 'page').a(:text, 'General List').click sleep 1 b.div(:id, 'printGeneralInventoryListModal').a(:text, 'A4').click b.link(:id => "submitBTNprint-general-list").fire_event "onclick" status = page_status(currenturl) passtest = section_results(currenturl,b) # print General List .DOC b.goto [main page URL] b.div(:id, 'page').a(:text, 'General List').click sleep 1 b.div(:id, 'printGeneralInventoryListModal').a(:text, '.DOC').click b.div(:id, 'printGeneralInventoryListModal').a(:text, 'A4').click b.link(:id => "submitBTNprint-general-list").fire_event "onclick" status = page_status(currenturl) passtest = section_results(currenturl,b) # print Inventory Report .XLS b.goto [main page URL] b.div(:id, 'page').a(:text, 'Inventory Report').click sleep 1 b.div(:id, 'printInventoryReportModal').a(:text, 'A4').click b.div(:id, 'printInventoryReportModal').a(:text, '.XLS').click b.link(:id => "submitBTNprint-inventory-report").fire_event "onclick" status = page_status(currenturl) passtest = section_results(currenturl,b) -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
