ScenarioSteps in automation

[qwerty]

I'm currently trying to manipulate scenario steps via automation but to no avail. I can create steps and the update succeeds, but looking into the GUI there is nothing (the t_objectscenarios is also empty).

Vice versa when I look into a manually created scenario with steps via automation EA tells me that Steps.Count is zero.

Is it me doing something completely stupid or is the Steps collection not working at all?

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[Eve]

It might be easier to say what you're doing wrong if you include a code sample.

[qwerty]

Yes. Might be a bit more helpful:

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$e = $rep->GetElementByGUID ($guid);
$scenario = $e->Scenarios->AddNew ("abc", "Basic");
$scenario->Update;
$s = $scenario->Steps->AddNew ("step1", "1");
$s->Update();
After that I don't see any new steps. The scenario is created.

Now, I just ran the reverse code to retrieve a manually created step. This failed before but now does work.

However, above code still does not work.

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[Eve]

Add a call to $scenario->Update; at the end.

If fact in this case (I know, unlike everywhere else) you don't need the update before calling AddNew to create the child.

[qwerty]

Thanks Simon, that worked. Well, I will not start arguing about EAUI ;-)
Instead this comes handy as another little chest for my book.

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[qwerty]

Hi Simon,
hope you read this one. I went on and tried to populate the scenario steps:

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$s = $scenario->Steps->AddNew ("step1", "1");
$s->{Uses} = "use";
$s->{State} = "state";
$s->{Results} = "results";
$s->Update();After that Uses and State contain the passed values. But Result is empty. I looked in the debugger which showed me that all values were set correctly. But EA seems to throw away Results. Doing it from the GUI works.

What's wrong here?

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[qwerty]

I guess it's simply once again EA...

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