How to manage Dynamic fields (if the fields names change dynamically)

George

OS : Windows 7
Browser : Firefox 7.0.1
Sahi Build: 2011-07-19

Hi

Advise me.. How to manage Dynamic fields in a form (if the fields names change dynamically in the form on each run of my script)?
Let me make it clear by giving an example :

first time when i run the script the textbox fieldname will be say.. abc_1011_name
the second time the field name may change to abc_1013_name or abc_1015_name depends on the no of times many users used the same field to store/save data to db.

give a reply soon please.

George

Sumitra

Hi George,

Kindly use : /abc_10/

Check if this solves your issue.

Regards
Sumitra

George

even the abc_10 also may change... you know.. i cannot predict the fieldname.. its random generated most of the time. it may be abc_1022_name or bcd_3344_name.

thats another problem.. so i want to know a solution how to take the fieldname which is used at the time i arrive the form.

george

Sumitra

Hi George,

In that case, you will have to use:

/.*/ instead of abc_1022_name

Check if this solves your issue.

Regards
Sumitra

George

if i have 3 fields with the names abc_2233_name, abc_2233_add, abc_2233_desgn and if i use /.*/ will it prompt to take from one after other? let me check... i don't know... if it doesnot pl give other solutions if any..

thanks a lot

george

Sumitra

Hi George,

If you use /.*/ it will consider all the textboxs what ever is the id of the textbox.

For Eg: If you want to set a value in the text box2 then /.*/ wont work because Sahi wont know where the textbox is present. In that case you will have to use DOM relation.( i.e _in(),_under(),_near()) API's.

For more details: http://sahi.co.in/w/all-apis

Regards
Sumitra

George

ok i will try that.

thanks sumitra


George