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. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] --- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
