In Katalon Studio, when using triple double quotes to define a multi-line string in Groovy, the triple double quotes are automatically replaced by a single double quote, which causes an issue when trying to keep the code as originally written. The problem occurs because Katalon Studio’s Groovy pars…

Thanks for the heads up @Russ_Thomas I’ll make sure it gets some eyes

This is just one of many issues caused by switching between the views. The bug has always been there. My guess is, it’s not easy to recover from the switch TO manual and then BACK to Script (in manual view, code needs to be parsed and “conditioned” for the view template). In which case, at the very…

+1 Warning message could have been present

no + vote from me. The warning message will be easily ignored. It might be an excuse: “I warned you not to, but you did it”. But it wont help people who haven’t experienced this symptom. Experience only helps. In Katalon Studio, Don’t switch from Script mode to Manual mode. Or, they should be a…

Thanks, but sometimes it’s easier to add manual steps, and this issue should ideally be handled by Katalon itself. It’s not feasible to completely avoid using the manual view, as there are certain scenarios where using manual view is faster. anyway thanks for your help :+1:

OK. If you are going to use the Manual mode, then you should accept that your own code formatting in the Script mode will be no longer preserved. If you can accept it, that’s fine. The code will stay syntactically valid and will work anyway.

[image] ximino4324: Thanks, but sometimes it’s easier to add manual steps, and this issue should ideally be handled by Katalon itself. Well, I somehow agree with … but. This feature (manual view) it is mostly for new users with almost zero coding experience. Looks like you are a bit more ex…

[image] kazurayam: If you are going to use the Manual mode, then you should accept that your own code formatting in the Script mode will be no longer preserved. Mhm… well, i propose another option. Since the katalon ‘engine’ detects this somehow and do some action, instead of rising a warni…

[image] anon46315158: it should notify the user ‘cannot parse this code block properly’ and give the user the choice between keeping the code block or re-format I don’t think that they can implement this.

[image] kazurayam: I don’t think that they can implement this Neither I, but let’s see if the development team pick-up the challenge. Impossible is nothing! I have some ideas how this can be achieved but let them ask, or do a brainstorm

Katalon loses vital code switching to/from Manual View (was Katalon issue Javascript)

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kazurayam August 1, 2023, 10:30am 13

I don’t think that they can implement this.

My code is lost if after updating in manual mode

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Katalon loses vital code switching to/from Manual View (was Katalon issue Javascript)

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