Selenium IDE to Robot Framework

[Jordan Cloo]

Hello,

I am fairly new to coding and automation as well and am currently using Selenium IDE recording as a tool to help find elements I cannot find as easily on my own yet for automation. I have been having trouble finding an element to attach an enter text keyword to with selenium2library because the element only contains ember id's which change continuously. I used Selenium IDE to record it and returned a target that works which is 

<td>type</td>

<td>//div[2]/div/input</td>

<td>1/27/2016</td>

and 

<td>type</td>

<td>//input</td>

<td>1.27</td>

I am trying to convert these into Robot to achieve the same successful result by using the xpath but robot is not recognizing my command. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am new to automation and trying to learn the ropes.

[HelioGuilherme66]

Please see the documentation of Selenium2Library at [1].

Here is the help for 'Input Text':

Name:

Input Text

Source:

Selenium2Library <test library>

Arguments:

[ locator | text ]

Types the given `text` into text field identified by `locator`. 

See `introduction` for details about locating elements.

The `introduction` explains how to use xpath as locator. For example: Input Text | xpath=//div[2]/div/input | 1/27/2016

Since you are a SeleniumIDE user, I recommend the use of an exporter from selenese to RobotFramework at [2].

[1] - http://rtomac.github.io/robotframework-selenium2library/doc/Selenium2Library.html

[2] - https://github.com/NeverSmileK57CLC/Robot-Framework-Formatter

[Jordan Cloo]

Thank you so much for the help HelioGuilherme66. I was able to finish my automation and I will continue to look more into the robot framework formatter. Thanks again!