Monday, 8 April 2024

Declaring Dynamic UI5 Fields in SAP Build Process Automation

While automating SAP Fiori applications, one might come across some dynamic UI5 elements such as mentioned in the snapshot below.

Declaring Dynamic UI5 Fields in SAP Build Process Automation

In most cases, recorder may not be able to uniquely identify the elements, thus terminating the automation where it may not find the suitable elements.

In such cases, SAP provides an extremely useful functionality to declare the elements manually using Design Console’s screen and tree feature.

Let us look at the steps required to fulfill the requirement.

1. Switch to ‘Both’ view.
2. In the Screen panel, click the target element.
3. Find the element in the ‘Tree’. (It’s recommended to find element type till the last child DIV)
4. Hover and right click the element and select ‘Declare Element’.

Declaring Dynamic UI5 Fields in SAP Build Process Automation

You might find that element has been uniquely identified or not, but we need to make sure that element must not use ‘id’ as an identifying criterion as it is static criteria, and we need to deal with dynamic elements.

5. Add the ‘class’ criteria from all the available criteria and remove ‘id’.

Declaring Dynamic UI5 Fields in SAP Build Process Automation

6. Now, we need to add all the parent DIVs until we find the DIV which has a criterion named ‘nth-child-tag =X’. (Here X can vary on the number of parent DIVs)

Declaring Dynamic UI5 Fields in SAP Build Process Automation

7. For this, hover to the immediate parent DIV, right click and select ‘Add to criteria’. Repeat step number 5

Declaring Dynamic UI5 Fields in SAP Build Process Automation

Once you find DIV with ‘nth-child-tag=X’ criteria, you will also find that now your element has been uniquely identified.

Element structure would look something like this.

Declaring Dynamic UI5 Fields in SAP Build Process Automation

8. Since recorder uses SAPUI5 SDK automatically, make sure you change the element class and select a SAP UI5 recorder.

Declaring Dynamic UI5 Fields in SAP Build Process Automation

9. Make sure to set the target element in automation to current declared element and you’re all set.

Declaring Dynamic UI5 Fields in SAP Build Process Automation

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