Link

These are the actions associated with the Link step type.

Description

Performs a mouse click on the specified object.

See Click.

Performs the action of dragging a PTF object. It is followed by the Drop_Over action where a previously selected object is dragged and released over a newly selected object on the same page.

See Drag_From.

Performs the action of dragging and releasing a PTF object over a newly selected object on the same page. It is preceded by the Drag_From action where a previously selected object is dragged from a position.

See Drop_Over.

Description

Checks whether the object exists on the page.

See Exists.

Description

Gets the property value of an HTML object and assign to the prop=value parameter. Also stores it to the variable in ret=&variable.

See Get_Property.

Description

Gets the style value of properties in a class from the HTML stylesheet. The value is assigned to prop=value parameter and stores it to the variable in ret=&variable.

See Get_Style.

Description

Performs a right-click, save as action on a link. Enter the link name in the Recognition column and the fully-qualified file name in the Value column.

Example

This example shows test steps that save a report to a target location. From the View Log/Trace page (PMN_CDM_INDEX) in the Process Monitor, it clicks on the report name link, verifies it is the correct report, and then saves the report to a file.

Type

Action

Recognition

Parameters

Value

Link

Click

Name=PMN_DERIVED_INDEX_BTN

Link

Verify

Name=URL$0

DDDAUDIT_532.PDF

Link

SaveTargetAs

Name=URL$0

C:\TEMP\DDDAUDIT.PDF

Description

Compares the value in the browser to the expected value, and adds a pass or fail log entry for the validation.

See Verify.