Document for WebUI.findWebElements(TestObject) is missing

[kazurayam]

com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltinKeywords implements 2 keywords

• WebUI.findWebElement(TestObject) which returns WebElement
• WebUI.findWebElemmnts(TestObject) which returns List<WebElement>

But Katalon has not published documentations for these built-in keywords. The following links returns 404 NOT FOUND

• https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/webui-find-webelement.html
• https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/webui-find-webelements.html

@ThanhTo
@Shin

Why not?

Especially, WebUI.findWebElements(TestObject) is valuable for those users who want to iterate over <TR> elements in a <TABLE>, as it is the only one (exceptional) WebUI.* keyword that returns a List of references to HTML elements.

A user who is already familiar with Java programming would be able to write a test script which immediately calls the Selenium API. For example as this:

List<WebElement> rowsInTable = driver.findElement(By.xpath('//table/tbody/tr'))

Or those who are skillful enough about JavaScript programming would write something like:

String js = 'return document.querySelectorAll( css selector here);'
List elements = WebUI.executeJavaScript(js, null)

However, a user who does not have enough programming experience would get lost how to iterate over rows in a HTML table.

Therefore, I think, a document of WebUI.findWebElements(TestObject) is required for those beginners.

[kazurayam]

Another use case of WebUI.findWebElements(TestObject) would be enumerating all <a> tags in a page. For example,

• Count how many anchors(links) in a div
• Finding Broken Links in web pages with Katalon Studio

[kazurayam]

… Bump!

[chrisstu]

Hi Kazu,

We are updating the doc update, thank you for the comment. Could you indicate where did you find the links ? So we could update that also.

• https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/webui-find-webelement.html
• https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/webui-find-webelements.html

[kazurayam]

@chrisstu

Could you indicate where did you find the links ?

Nowhere.

I just guessed the URL would be like these if written.

[chrisstu]

Hi Kazu,

We updated the doc in [WebUI] Find Web Elements [WebUI] Find Web Element .

[rice]

Hi @chrisstu,

Why is it not available in the IntelliSense when we use ‘WebUI.’?

[system]

Hi there,

Thank you very much for your topic. Please note that it may take a little while before a member of our community or from Katalon team responds to you.

Thanks!

[kazurayam]

@rice

the IntelliSense

What do you mean “IntelliSence” in this case?
Please describe a bit more.

[rice]

When you type WebUI. it will show you the available methods and whatnot… but somehow findWebElements is not available.

[kazurayam]

I checked v9.0.0, I saw ‘findWebElement’ and ‘findWebElements’ keyword are included in the output of the “intelliSence” for a string fragment WebUI.fi

Which version of KS are you on?