Compare records in a FORM with that in an Excel file

Question

Guys,
As part of automating a Payroll process I need to compare the records on an Oracle FORM to that in an external Excel file. There are multiple columns that need to be compared. Does anyone have a sample ATS Java script to do this that I can refer to? I am using the external file as a databank.
Thanks,
Murali.

Answer 1

Murali,
For each part of your Oracle Form -- set a variable, this is often done for you during record. Since you are doing text matching -- add a text matching test for each place on the form that you want to check against your excel file.
Personally, I'd save it as a csv. But I suppose it will work as an xls.
Then just name the columns of your excel sheet to be the same as the name of the variables you are looking for on the Oracle form.
You shouldn't have to do any coding to make this happen, its all built in oats functionality. You should be able to do all of this stuff from OFT or openscript.
Once you have that -- you'll need to set the test to iterate smoothly -- which means having the last step of your RUN section return you to the same page as the first step of the RUN section.
Then just set your test to iterate however many rows of the databank you want and you'll be going through and comparing each row of data to the information returned by the oracle form.
For instance --
You are looking up a customer by cust_id and you will get address (add1), name (name), phone number (phone) back and want to make sure these are all correct.
Your data bank will look like this:
cust_id, add1, name, phone
1234, 100 Main St, John Doe, 800-555-1212
5678, 200 5th Ave, Suzie Queue, 800-555-1234
Your test steps will look like this (they are not exact)
Step 1) Go to the start of the Oracle Form
Step 2) Select the Form section to enter the Cust_ID {variable to get Cust_ID from databank} Enter the 1st Cust_Id from the databank
Step 3) Get additional information for the specific Cust_ID from the Form
Step 4) Select the Address and do a text matching case {variable to get Add1 from databank}
Step 5) Select the Name and do a text matching case {variable to get Name from databank}
Step 6) Select the Phone # and do a text matching case {variable to get Phone # from databank}
Step 7) Pass test and enter message indicating that {variable to get Cust_Id from databank} is all correct
Step 8) Return to the start of the Oracle Form
I hope this is helpful.
--tiff