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Status Submitted
Categories Excel & Word Import
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 4, 2024

Complete the possibility of importing customAttributes of type LINK correctly

In our company, we intended to use the ETM Excel Importer to import mass data of Test Case Results from Excel. We have enhanced our data model of the Test Case Result with custom attributes of type LINK.

The custom attribute LINK is a tuple, consisting of an URL and a Display Text, where the display text is shown like the visible text of a hyperlink and the URL is the web address behind it.

Unfortunately, there is no way of importing a Display Text to such a custom attribute (see ticket TS017864653). One is only able to import the URL. And when importing the URL, the URL string is also put in the Display Text.

So when I import the URL http://www.google.com I get exactly that: the link name is qual to the URL.

What I wanna have is this: Google

 

Suggestion:

The line in the config file, to import the URL from a cell in column U of an Excel file is this:

executionresult.customAttributes identifier="<someID>".name="<someName>".type="LINK".value=U

 

The line in the config file, to import the Display Text from another column V of the same Excel file could be this:

executionresult.customAttributes identifier="<someID>".name="<someName>".type="LINK".label=V

 

The text in a cell of column V would be the display text of the custom attribute of type LINK with name <someName> and id <someID>.

The text in a cell of column U would be the URL of the same custom attribute of type LINK with the same name <someName> and the same id <someID>.

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Month