ECATT SAPGUI Recoring for co60

Hi,
I am trying to record co60 transaction thro ecatt sapgui mode.
I have issue while specifying batch number, qty on the main cockpit sheet. Scripting is not recognizing the actual fields on the PI sheet. Anyone faced this issue ,kindly share your thoughts.
Thanks in advance
Giridhar

Hi Giridhar,
Check the SAPGUI Recording if some of the steps are not recorded itself or if the SAPGUI's are jumbled(this happens some times, then split to the least level and arrange the SAPGUI's in order) correct them and execute them.
Execute the Script highlighted, so that you will exactly know where the problem is..
That should be a temporary problem. CO60 is a normal transaction which doesnt have any controls in it also, so handling that transaction for SAPGUI should not be a problem.
Try to record the TA again(my last suggestion)..
Besr regards,
Harsha
PS: Reward points if this is helpful

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Ecatt sapgui issue

Hi,
I am trying to record co60 transaction thro ecatt sapgui mode.
I have issue while specifying batch number, qty on the main cockpit sheet. Scripting is not recognizing the actual fields on the PI sheet. Anyone faced this issue ,kindly share your thoughts.
Thanks in advance
Giridhar

Hello Giridhar
The PI sheet is a quite old-fashioned report with editable fields that, unfortunately, escape the eCATT recording.
However, there might be trick how to record these fields nevertheless. For example:
- The field "QUANTITY" is (on our system) located within a block "Phase". The line begin with the phrase "Control Instruction" which occurs several times on the PI sheet but this is the last occurrence.
Phase          : 0952 / Instruction no.: 0010
Control Instruction            :               QUANTITY :
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So, if you can navigate unambigously to the line where you want to modify values using the SEARCH button (Ctrl+F) you are halfway through. Let us assume that you could navigate to the line begin with "Control Instruction". How do you get to the editable "QUANTITY" field? By moving the cursor with the "Right-Arrow" button. The distance between the beginning of the line and the editable field should be fixed.
I know it sound a bit weird but I have used this workaround already to get to specific nodes of old-fashioned trees (RS_TREE_...).
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How to deal with generated programs in eCATT SAPGUI recording?

Hi experts and professionals,
I am trying to automate testing of our solutions by eCATTs and so far i have not been able to find solution for following problem.
Whole test scenario is very simple:
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But transaction LISTCUBE generates its program "name" every time it is executed and
I am struggling to find a way how to deal with these generated programs in eCATT SAPGUI recording.
Key is that solution must be generic and work for all SAP BW releases from 7.0 upwards
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Screen Check Error: Expected Transaction: LISTCUBE, Actual Transaction: LISTCUBE.
Expected Program: GP0KOZE7EFIUBN10MZUFWX90W80, Actual Program: GPBP24INA6VV77SL0XKU5NA642O.
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RaisingClass:CL_APL_ECATT_LINE_INTERPRETER Include:CL_APL_ECATT_LINE_INTERPRETER=CM00J Line:443
Is there any way how to avoid program check in eCATT script?
Anything that would help me to find solution will be greatly appreciated.
Best Regards,
Igor

Dear Igor,
Your issue is caused by the "screen check" which eCATT processes here.
In General this screen check is a very usefull activity, since is ensures that only those screens are processed by automation, which initially where recorded. This should ensure as much as possible to invoke only intended activities.
Remember, that the driver of the screen flow is still the automated transaction program ( but not the test tool). So application logic decides which screen is send next.
Using screen check the test tool tries to ensure that menu items and buttons and other activities are only automated when the tool "believes" to work on the intended screen.
For generic test scripts and often in context of generated programs the screen check might hurt a bit.
To overcome this, one might try to make the check dynamic (as Sheetal suggests correctly).
If here the name of program cannot be determined for any reason, one can use another method and do following:
- Change the value of ProcessedScreen-Active to 'R'
This will disable/skip the screen-check for this ProcessedScreen.
Sure the solution includes a certain risk, since not checking the correct screen to appear might lead to automation of actions with not desired impact.
Maybe this can improve your solution.
Kind Regards
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Message---- End Message in Ecatt - -SAPGUI

Hi Everyone:
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Thanks,
Rajesh.S

Hello Rajesh
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For example, the following eCATT segment was used to capture a message from the program that certain data was successfully generated and saved.
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The command interface has a specific parameter called MODE which will determine whether a specific message is allowed, is expected, is considered an error or is obligatory. You can also specify whether the script should exit if the specified condition is not met using the EXIT flag in the command interface. Also note that the command interface used with the Message/End Message statement can contain a number of these kind of rules as to establish a set of rules used to govern the expected behaviour in terms of the messages being raised by the program.
In your recorded SAPGUI or TCD statements specifically look for the Message variant in the recording to see what messages should be raised by the program in terms of the message classes and message numbers since you are going to need these to fully specify your messages to the Message/End Message statement. The following is an example of the message recorded in the CONFIRM_GENERATE_SUCCESS command interface from the above code except that can be used to determine the exact information to use in drawing up the OPTIONAL_COMMANDS command interface for the Message/End Message statement:
Message
Type I
Text Report /EPIUSE/VM3REP_22000003_NEW was generated successfully.
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Number 225
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AsPopup X
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ECATT SAPGUI playback hanging..

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I have just recorded some new test script using the SAPGUI driver. The recording looks good but when i play back my recording is script hang after the first command and I loose control.
I have tried many execution option but the problem still there - This is a new problem too me as I did some recording in the past with no issue.
The error do not seem to be consistent accross my multiple attempts. Sometime the script "unlock" and then process the rest of the transaction correctly.
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Hi Gabriela,
just to explain that behavior:
eCATT SAPGUI recoding in 6.20 starts the GUI not directly into the transaction to be recorded. Depending on system settings transactions called SESSION_MANAGER, S000 or even other "startup-transactions" do come up first, before you enter "/n<TACODE>" in your OK-Code field. (BTW: you should avoid starting transaction to be recorded by menu path').
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Now the reason for your error message:
Sometimes during replay unfortunatelly the start screen is not the same as during recording. There is a certain check in SAPGUI command to avoid replay on wrong screens and that causes the message you saw.
From 6.40 on eCATT starts recording always directly in the trasaction to be recorded. You have to specify it at the "insert pattern" screen for SAPGUI recording. So screen with TA SESSION_MANAGER should not appear anymore in new recorded SAPGUI commands.
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Jonathan,
With the earlier discussion regarding SAPGUI recording pattern, following were the observations. (More details were posted on September 08, 2005 with the subject - Re: eCATT SAPGUI Recording Queries)
>> The messages, which I got, are not popup dialog boxes. They are at the bottom on status bar. And the system is expected to proceed further with the warning message without any problem. But the SAPGUI recorded script fails due to such unrecorded messages.
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Thanks & Regards.

Jonathan,
With the earlier discussion regarding SAPGUI recording pattern, following were the observations. (More details were posted on September 08, 2005 with the subject - Re: eCATT SAPGUI Recording Queries)
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Use of ECATT or CATT for creating performamce statistics

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Sorry for wrong link:
Have a look at below links which gives you PDF for eCATT.
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCCATTOL/BCCATTOL.pdf
http://help.sap.com/printdocu/core/Print46c/en/data/pdf/BCCATTOL/CACATTOL.pdf
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/1b/e81c3b84e65e7be10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
to start working on eCATT follow tru these links,
eCATT- An Introduction
/people/sumeet.kaul/blog/2005/07/26/ecatt-an-introduction
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/people/sumeet.kaul/blog/2005/08/10/ecatt-creating-test-scripts
eCATT Logs
/people/sapna.modi/blog/2006/04/18/ecatt-logs-part-vi
eCATT Scripts Creation TCD Mode
/people/sapna.modi/blog/2006/04/10/ecatt-scripts-creation-150-tcd-mode-part-ii
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/people/sumeet.kaul/blog/2005/08/24/ecatt-creation-of-test-data-container
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/people/sapna.modi/blog/2006/04/10/ecatt-scripts-creation--sapgui-mode-part-iii
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/people/community.user/blog/2007/01/02/integrating-ecatt-mercury-qtp-part-1
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ECATT-SAPGUI Recording error

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Remember, that the driver of the screen flow is still the automated transaction program ( but not the test tool). So application logic decides which screen is send next.
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If here the name of program cannot be determined for any reason, one can use another method and do following:
- Change the value of ProcessedScreen-Active to 'R'
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Sure the solution includes a certain risk, since not checking the correct screen to appear might lead to automation of actions with not desired impact.
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Kind Regards
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I'm working on eCATT with SAPGUI recording mode,
I recorded VA01 transaction, In this after enterring some articles i'm getting a statusbar message,
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Hi Chandra Sekhar,
Using a Message - End Message block would not solve your problem.
Message block basically captures your messages(that arise while execution) but you cannot use it for standard instructions. All you could do is Allow that message(which in this case could mean nothing).
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PS: Reward points if this answers your query.

SAPgui: Waiting for response

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> see a smile in my face!
>
> "- take a full backup of the database
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>
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