Question
Ford Motor Company Ltd
IN
Last activity: 28 May 2019 9:35 EDT
Enter key in Textbox
I have a text box where I give Incident number and hit 'Enter' key in the keyboard so that the page loads.
Using Pega, I am able to manage to enter the Incident number by passing text to txtIncident. Can you help how to automate Enter key after giving the Incident number?
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
As per you description, if you are entering Incident number and the very next step if you are pressing enter key. Then on the text box control, after setting the value to txtIncident, you need to use sendkeys() method to pass Enter as key. i.e keycode for Enter is {ENTER} or ~
After the focus is changing from the textbox control(may be pressing tab or by clicking mouse) above solution will not work. Hence, as screenshot of the windows form will help.
Ford Motor Company Ltd
IN
Hi,
I am not able to find sendkeys() method to pass the Enter key. That option is not available.
Is there any other way or option for this?
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
If Sendkeys() method is not available I understand that the application you were trying to automate is web application. Sendkeys() method is available only for Windows applications.
If you are trying to automate web application(using web adapter), you have two approaches to solve the issue.
approach 1:
Create two adapters as per below link.
https://collaborate.pega.com/question/attaching-files-internet-explorer
Here you will be having two applications i.e Chrome/IE is a windows application(windows adapter is needed to interrogate chrome.exe), in which you will be loading webpage i.e a web application(webadapter is needed to interrogate web content)
With help of windows adapter, bullseye interrogate Chrome/IE frame(where the webpage is loaded).
Automation design: On textbox control, after setting the value to textIncident, you need to use sendKeys() method available on the Chrome/IE frame control that you have interrogated with help of windows adapter bullseye.
approach 2:
Create a Proxy for the webpage, you will can find the sendkeys() method on the proxy. Below is the link which can help you in guiding the steps to extract proxy.
If Sendkeys() method is not available I understand that the application you were trying to automate is web application. Sendkeys() method is available only for Windows applications.
If you are trying to automate web application(using web adapter), you have two approaches to solve the issue.
approach 1:
Create two adapters as per below link.
https://collaborate.pega.com/question/attaching-files-internet-explorer
Here you will be having two applications i.e Chrome/IE is a windows application(windows adapter is needed to interrogate chrome.exe), in which you will be loading webpage i.e a web application(webadapter is needed to interrogate web content)
With help of windows adapter, bullseye interrogate Chrome/IE frame(where the webpage is loaded).
Automation design: On textbox control, after setting the value to textIncident, you need to use sendKeys() method available on the Chrome/IE frame control that you have interrogated with help of windows adapter bullseye.
approach 2:
Create a Proxy for the webpage, you will can find the sendkeys() method on the proxy. Below is the link which can help you in guiding the steps to extract proxy.
https://collaborate.pega.com/question/pega-robotics-invoke-file-upload-not-working-chrome-browser
Screenshot of the issue causing page would be helpful.