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copy/cut/paste multiple commands
When I write tests, I often find the need to break apart my complex creations into more manageable chunks. Is there a way to copy/cut/paste multiple commands between tests? This would be an awesome add.
Sounds interesting, but we don't have a way to handle more than one item selected.
I'll have to think about it, but it definitely sounds like something we should do.
copy/cut/paste multiple commands helps a lot...thanks for looking in to it @corevo
This would be extremely helpful! Thanks!
On a related note, the new .side file type seems to group all "tests" into one file (unlike the old ide file structure which stored each test as separate .html file), so I can't copy or move individual tests from one "suite" (or "project" .side file) into another, except by manually trying to copy the text from notepad, which is difficult to do with human imprecision).
Being able to select 5+ commands at once to cut or copy and move into another test in same project or even across projects would be very helpful (the latter piece would ameliorate the problem with being unable to copy/move individual tests across suites/projects).
Any update on this? Even if I could copy multiple lines within same test case, that would be helpful. Record doesn't capture everything I need and it is labor-intensive to copy/paste one line at a time when I need to reuse 5 commands (or sometimes more) later in the same test case.
Could really use this feature. I feel Copy and Delete should work on multiple commands for a really effective tool.
Just checking to see if any headway has been made with this. The more I use the new IDE the more I am really missing the ability to copy/paste steps.
Thanks!
Just another vote for this. I've just started using the new IDE and I'm really missing this.
+1
- copying of multiple commands between test scenarios
- copying full test cases between projects
Yeah, this chewed up a lot of time for me again today.
We have a registering website that allows me to key a primary record (registering for trade shows) and before I collect payment, I can add another record to the group and I can continue doing that indefinitely. When I use the add another, it takes me to the address/name page vs the starting page, then every page after that is the same as the primary record. My script was creating a group of 5. Ended up with 816 commands...
Usually I'd duplicate 75% of the script just by copy/pasting in the IDE and then edit the records first name/email to make them unique. With copy/paste, that's an easy thing to do. Without it, I was going into notepad, copying the 600 lines (90 commands) into another txt file, globally changing the "id": "nnnnn" to insert a new letter for each iteration, and pasting it back in the main script. It was a very clunky process, but it was far quicker than recording the 5 iterations, then editing the script to work properly/dynamically from variable data.
That said, when I was "done" with my script, it was super slow to load and run. I suppose I could have tried breaking my script up into pieces then running the entire suite and hope it didn't freak it out since I wouldn't be opening a url for any script but the first and last. Maybe I'll just do a single record tomorrow and see if it feels faster or if it was just my imagination. It took the script 20 minutes to key the 5 records... which would usually take 3 minutes using the old ide.
Another vote for adding this. My company just started using Selenium IDE at the end of last week. They gave it to four of us and we are supposed to learn it, create some regression scripts, and then train others. On our site we have different order flows for new customers, existing customers, recurring shipments, etc., but much within each flow is the same, such as adding a new payment method, or new address. It would be so helpful if once we get others trained, that they could just select all the commands for something like adding a new address and they could copy it into their new script. This seems like such a basic thing that I figured the functionality must exist and I just hadn't figured out how to do it, but reading this thread it sounds like that is not the case.
I would like to add my +1 vote for the request to copy+paste multiple lines within and across Test Scripts in Selenium IDE.
I recently started using the Selenium IDE again (after 2014-2015), and this is the one feature that I sorely miss.
I would also like to add a similar request for multiple-line "Select+Delete".
Oh, I almost forgot to add requests for multiple-line "Select+Comment-out", and "Select & remove the Comment-out".
Appreciate your attention to rebuilding these features back into the new Selenium IDE!
+1 I also tried this and searched for help. Would be very helpful, if the feature gets implemented.
This would be extremely helpful! Thanks!
On a related note, the new .side file type seems to group all "tests" into one file (unlike the old ide file structure which stored each test as separate .html file), so I can't copy or move individual tests from one "suite" (or "project" .side file) into another, except by manually trying to copy the text from notepad, which is difficult to do with human imprecision).
Being able to select 5+ commands at once to cut or copy and move into another test in same project or even across projects would be very helpful (the latter piece would ameliorate the problem with being unable to copy/move individual tests across suites/projects).
It is also important to me to be able to export and import individual (or multiple) Test Scripts between .side files. I have a .side file from which I inadvertently deleted a few important scripts, but I have an older .side file with the exact scripts that I need to re-include into the latest .side file - please have this functionality included in Selenium IDE. BTW, Selenium IDE has proved to be a life-saver for me on my current project - cheers, and Happy New Year 2021!
+1 Yes please! Being able to copy and paste commands across projects and tests would be extremely helpful! Great tool!!!
Hey everyone,
It is clear that this will NOT be implemented by Selenium Team. How about we start proposing / reviewing implementation solutions instead of putting a +1 I love this feature comment?
LUCIANO BARGMANN
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 4:01 AM joseaurrutia [email protected] wrote:
+1 Yes please!
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Any progress on selecting multiple commands to cut/copy/paste?
Selenium is dead folks, move on to other modern tools. Obrigado,
LUCIANO BARGMANN
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+1 for this request. Re @lucianobargmann yes it's frustrating, but it doesn't seem to be (completely) dead and there is still home?
See https://www.selenium.dev/
This is still a pain. i have found a simple workarround to do this today. i am unable to attach the video so uploaded to youtube, hope this helps. https://youtu.be/VEVx-Tq3WtU
@hi2rashid - I'm sorry I never updated here. The last post here was from just before I became a maintainer. v4 supports this inherently. It's still in alpha here (https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium-ide/releases/tag/latest), but in v4, it's shift + cmd/ctrl + c/x/v respectively
Edit: Oh, and I believe shift and option and selecting things should do all the stuff. The only thing is that multi stuff on commands requires holding shift because I didn't want to block standard cut/copy/paste interactions. Also, it doesn't work for tests yet. It only works for commands, but I've found it quite nice.
@hi2rashid - I'm sorry I never updated here. The last post here was from just before I became a maintainer. v4 supports this inherently. It's still in alpha here (https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium-ide/releases/tag/latest), but in v4, it's shift + cmd/ctrl + c/x/v respectively
Edit: Oh, and I believe shift and option and selecting things should do all the stuff. The only thing is that multi stuff on commands requires holding shift because I didn't want to block standard cut/copy/paste interactions. Also, it doesn't work for tests yet. It only works for commands, but I've found it quite nice.
bro, it not work
Also, are you using the v4 electron binary or building locally? Which version are you on?