QTP - Getting current browser URL

I'm going to show and explain how to get current URL which is opened in a browser.
For example, how to get URL "http://motevich.blogspot.com" from the following browser:

There are two solutions:

1. Using GetROProperty("URL") method (run-time object property)
2. Using "URL" property of "Object" (IE DOM Object)

Let's consider both variants.

1. GetRoProperty("URL") method (run-time object property)
   
   GetRoProperty function reads properties of a run-time object in an application.
   If you open QTP Help on GetRoProperty function, you 'll see that this function can work with all objects:
   So, for example:
   
   • to check whether a link is visible or not, use:
     Browser("bname").Page("pname").Link("lname").GetROProperty("visible")
     
   • to get a page's title, use:
     Browser("bname").Page("pname").GetROProperty("title")
   • to check whether a window is maximized, use:
     Window("wname").GetROProperty("maximized")
     
   • to get width of WebButton, use:
     Browser("bname").Page("pname").WebButton("btname").GetROProperty("width")
     
   Others properties are described in QTP Help.
   
   In our case, to get URL of the current WebPage, we will use:
   
   Browser("bname").Page("pname").GetRoProperty("URL")
   This is a sample QTP script:
   
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2. "URL" property of "Object" (IE DOM Object)
   
   The sample syntax is:
   
   Browser("bname").Page("pname").Object.URL
   
   What is "Object" in the above statement?
   
   Actually, this is Internet Explorer Document Object Model (DOM) Object.
   You can read more about DOM here and here.
   Also, I recommend to read this interested article on working with IE DOM from Visual Basic.
   
   Tip: You can use DOM Object when running QTP test on Internet Explorer only!
   
   To make the long story short, I can say that using Object property you can get almost all elements and properties from Web page.
   
   Thus, I use URL property of Internet Explorer's DOM Object.
   All properties, collections, and methods of DOM Object are described in this MSDN article.
   
   Tip: The number of properties, accessed via DOM Object, is more bigger, than properties accessed via GetROProperty method.
   
   So, the result of above code is:
   
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Summary:
Two ways were discussed:

1. GetROProperty("URL") (run-time object property)
2. "URL" property of "Object" (IE DOM Object)

GetROProperty method supports both IE & FireFox, but IE DOM Object provides more accessible properties and methods.
Both can get URL of the current Web page.

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quotes in VBScript

There two ways to do that:

1. Double the quotes (""):
   
   MsgBox "#1: ""QTP - QuickTest Professional"""
   
   Use 2 double quotation marks to include a quote character in the string.
   So, the result is:
   
   


2. Use ANSI character code - Chr(34):
   
   MsgBox "#2: " & Chr(34) & "QTP - QuickTest Professional" & Chr(34)
   
   Since, the ANSI code if quotation mark = 34, we can use Chr function.
   The result is:
   
   

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How to set/get system time and date?

QTP allows running different types of test. And sometimes, it needs perform time and date manipulations on a computer. In this article, I will show and explain - how to get system time/date and change them.

Actually, today's lecture consists of two questions:

1. How to get system time and date?
2. How to set system time and date?

Let start training right now :)
So, the first section is:


How to get system time and date?

Actually, this is not difficult task! Use the following functions:

• Now - function returns the current date and time according to the setting of your computer's system date and time.
  
• Date - function returns the current system date.
• Time - function returns a Variant of subtype Date indicating the current system time.
  

So, the code is very simple. I provide it with a screen shot containing results:


Well, let's deal with the second section:


How to set system time and date?

For that, I will use simple DOS commands:

• time - this command displays or sets the system time:
  To change the time, pass it as a parameter to time command. See the above screen shot as an example.
  
  
• date - this command displays or sets the system date:
  To change the date, pass it as a parameter to date command. See the above screen shot as an example for date manipulations :)
  

Now, I will combine all the above VBScript functions (Now, Date, Time) and DOC commands (time and date):

As you can see, initial date and time were '26.10.2007 22:45:10'. Then I added 3 days and 2 hours to initial date & time. The result of addition is - '30.10.2007 0:45:10'.

By the way, could you guess, why the result day is 30th, not 29th? :) To answer, please pay attention that we added 2 hours too :)

The last step - running of time and date commands from command line. I used Run method of WScript.Shell object.


So, as you can see - date and time manipulation is easy enough.

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