Opening folder tree with getElementsBy...

qaweb

Can any one point me to an example for the common test of returning a collection or array by "getElementsByName"?

i do this regularly with VBS and QTP, but am trying to convert those scripts to Sahi.

For instance: I want to click on each of 200-500 closed nodes in different folder "trees" marked by <div class=abc id=img01n4><img src="plus.gif" title="xyz">definition of xyz</div>

Recording this just gives me 200-500 lines with every ID - useless unless I can use some glob or regex pattern of ID to return an array? I thought surely this has already been documented - but haven't seen any of the "getelement" functions in the help examples?

qaweb

Well, I was 99% wrong, sort of. I found the answer, deep inside the help, after finding an EXAMPLE in the demo folder of "_collect".

I have posted the code below for the next person to find, with less friction loss!

(I call the function 2-3 times, one for each of two nested levels.
A clone of the function handles a single node identified by DIV rather than SPAN.
I failed to open the topmost of each inner/second level node until I ran the loop "backwards" from top to bottom.
And I absolutely failed with no workaround (so far) to open the top most "zero-th" node, even though its id = "img157span1"

openNodes(); // first pass
openNodes();	// second / inner set  of nodes
openDivNodes(); // one lonely stubborn node
openNodes();	  // the last hold outs (the zero-th) inner / second level nodes
openLastNode();  // a failed but harmless attempt to open the top most outer mode
   
  
function openNodes() {

var $plusgifs = _collect ("_image", "/plus.gif/", _in(_image("image")));  // 

_set($Count, $plusgifs.length);

	for (var $i = $Count - 1; $i > 0 ; $i--) 
	{ 
	_click($plusgifs[$i]);
	}

}

function openDivNodes() {
 
var $plusgifs = _collect ("_image", "/plus.gif/", _in(_div("stuff1div1")));  // 

_set($Count, $plusgifs.length);
for (var $k = 0; $k < $Count - 1; $k++)	{ 
	_click($plusgifs[$k]);
	}

}

function openLastNode() {
var $somegifs = _collect ("_image", "/plus.gif/", _in(_span("cellPic"))); 

_set($Count, $somegifs.length);
//	for (var $m = 0; $m < $Count - 1; $m++)  // didn't help either way
	for (var $m = $Count - 1; $m > 0 ; $m--) 
	{ 
	_click($somegifs[$i]);
	}

}


/*
pasted revealHTML here for reference
[<div id="stuff1div1">]<span id="stuff14imgspan" ><img class="image" id="stuff14imag1"  src="plus.gif" ...>...stuff...</span>[</div>]

alternative to getElementByID getElementByName getElementByClass getElementByClassName
*/

globalworming

Thanks for sharing and congratz on discovering the _collect API