Selenium IDE:Opening in new tab and shift focus to new tab not working

Question

i have stuck in one point in selenium ide

the scenario is like this

Login-----

go to dashboard page---------

mouse over any menu on the top navigational bar----

on mouseover sub menu will appear as drop down--

now click any link from the drop down --

after clicking link will open in new tab

now from that point on-wards we have to shift our focus to that new tab because rest of the testing will be done on that new tab.

The code i have written is given below

     <tr>
    <td>open</td>
    <td>/magma/dev/</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>type</td>
    <td>name=user_id</td>
    <td>abcd</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>type</td>
    <td>name=pass</td>
    <td>1234</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>clickAndWait</td>
    <td>id=btnLogin</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>verifyTextPresent</td>
    <td>Costing List</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>verifyTextPresent</td>
    <td>Fuel</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>mouseOver</td>
    <td>//div[@id='smoothmenu1']/ul/li[3]</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>link=Fuel Cost</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>selectWindow</td>
    <td>http://10.0.1.101/magma/dev/fuelcost/</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>verifyTextPresent</td>
    <td>Manage Fuel Cost</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>clickAndWait</td>
    <td>link=Logout</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>

This code is working correctly upto clicking the sub menu from the dropdown after that it is not working and a error is showing in the log

so when ever i am trying to run that test case it is showing error

[warn] Link has target '_blank', which is not supported in Selenium! Randomizing target to be: selenium_blank84419

can any one please help me to write the code properly

Answer 1

The following code works for me:

<tr>
    <td>storeEval</td>
    <td>selenium.getAllWindowNames()[1]</td>
    <td>windowName</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>getEval</td>
    <td>this.doEcho("array length: "+selenium.getAllWindowNames().length);this.doEcho("Available window names: "+selenium.getAllWindowNames());this.doEcho("Selecting window: "+storedVars['windowName']);</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>selectWindow</td>
    <td>${windowName}</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>

I hope it will help others who face a similar type of problem

Answer 2

use selectPopUp, but not storeEval and selectWindow, both of them are too complicated.

selectPopUp:

• Arguments: windowID - an identifier for the popup window, which can take on a number of different meanings

• Simplifies the process of selecting a popup window (and does not offer functionality beyond what selectWindow() already provides).

  • If windowID is either not specified, or specified as "null", the first non-top window is selected. The top window is the one that would be selected by selectWindow() without providing a windowID . This should not be used when more than one popup window is in play.
  • Otherwise, the window will be looked up considering windowID as the following in order: 1) the "name" of the window, as specified to window.open(); 2) a javascript variable which is a reference to a window; and 3) the title of the window. This is the same ordered lookup performed by selectWindow .

The code below ( selenium script, I copied from the selenium IDE ) indicates the action of:

1.click a 'edit' link

2.wait for 2 seconds ( waiting for the new window opened)

3.focus on the new window

<tr>
    <td>click</td>
    <td>link=edit</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>pause</td>
    <td>2000</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>selectPopUp</td>
    <td></td>
    <td></td>
</tr>