RIDE can not maintain the "..." ellipsis in a new line when re-opens the project

[yanne]

When a test case has a line with many cells including keywords and their arguments in RIDE, I want to use the ellipsis "..." to continue the previouse line, like below (display in cells format in RIDE)

${returnValue1} ${returnValue2} keyword arg1 arg2 ... arg3 arg4

then click save all button, the ellipsis is saved, and maintained when switching different test cases. But if closed RIDE or re-opened the project in RIDE, the ellipsis would be removed automatically, the two lines previously would form a single line like below

${returnValue1} ${returnValue2} keyword arg1 arg2 arg3 arg4

I wonder if the ellipsis could be maintained so it's easier to check the whole test case without dragging the scrollbar?

This issue was originally reported to Google Code on Aug 17, 2011.

[yanne]

Original comment by vito...@gmail.com on Aug 17, 2011.

Dear owner, Would you please give some comments on this, Thanks in advance.

[yanne]

Original comment by mikko.ko...@gmail.com on Aug 18, 2011.

This is a valid issue.

Requires changes to Robot Framework.

[yanne]

Original comment by mikko.ko...@gmail.com on Aug 8, 2012.

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[yanne]

Original comment by mikko.ko...@gmail.com on Aug 19, 2012.

Issue 1029 has been merged into this issue.

[yanne]

Original comment by Eugene.K...@gmail.com on Sep 10, 2012.

I'm wondering is there a workaround for this issue which can help maintain dictionaries with 10-12 and more pairs?

[yanne]

Original comment by pekka.klarck on Nov 6, 2012.

I agree that losing the information about how lines are slit is really annoying. This is due to RIDE using Robot's parsing modules to get the data and those modules combining split lines.

I submitted an issue to Robot about keeping lines separate [1]. I don't know how easy task that is so cannot tell if/when this issue actually can be fixed.

[1 https://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1272

[yanne]

Original comment by mikko.ko...@gmail.com on Jan 21, 2013.

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[yanne]

Original comment by mikko.ko...@gmail.com on Jan 21, 2013.

Waiting for Robot Framework changes. Too big task.

[yanne]

Original comment by derek.ro...@gmail.com on Jan 30, 2013.

This is also an issue for me. I hope RFW's maintainers can fix this so that RIDE can implement a solution.

[yanne]

Original comment by mic...@f1kart.com on Mar 6, 2013.

I am actually willing to donate if I can get this fixed. I really hate having to maintain my data in seperate CSV files just because RIDE cannot deal with tabular data.

[yanne]

Original comment by mikko.ko...@gmail.com on Mar 12, 2013.

@michel: Thanks, but currently core team is fully funded by Nokia Siemens Network.

Why do you need to keep your data in a separate CSV file?

[yanne]

Original comment by mic...@f1kart.com on Mar 22, 2013.

@mikko

I work for a financial institution and all of our data are in tabular(CSV) format. For small datasets(10 rows x 8 cols) I would like to include the tabular data in-line with the test case; this way everybody can see the whole test case in one page view.

Since RIDE doesn’t preserve the ellipses I have started to create the test suites in HTML, but when my test suite has about 400 rows and 10 columns(about 8 test cases) Visual Studio 2010’s performance degrades to where it is almost unusable. Having separate CSV files would solve my performance problems, but it would reduce test clarity.

This has caused me to wonder if providing tabular data inline is even possible for me, since there is no tool that seems to be a perfect fit(except RIDE if ellipses were preserved).

[yanne]

Original comment by mikko.ko...@gmail.com on Oct 21, 2013.

Issue 1295 has been merged into this issue.

[yanne]

Original comment by mikko.ko...@gmail.com on Mar 10, 2014.

Issue 1329 has been merged into this issue.

[yanne]

Original comment by mikko.ko...@gmail.com on Apr 7, 2014.

Issue 1349 has been merged into this issue.