Attachment Editor/en

Introduction

The attachment editor is used to view and edit an attachment element. It is shown after selecting an attachment element in the navigation tree.

Attachment Editor

A file attachment is actually a file which is stored within the test suite (the ".ets"-file, which is technically a zip-file). Whenever a suite is loaded, all embedded attachments are unpacked and stored in the suite's temporary folder on your disk. A URL attachment's underlying file will be fetched during execution.

The filename or its contents is made available to other actions by dragging the attachment into a diagram. This creates an attachment-step, which is configurable to provide either the filename or its contents in a number of commonly used formats (line-wise, as a collection of lines, binary, all in one strings, etc.)

To the right, you see a CSV file which is shown in the editor in textual mode.

Buttons

• Edit the attached file using an external tool. The tool is choosen as defined by its filename extension. For textfiles, under windows, a notepad editor is typically opened. The external editor can be specified in the External Tools settings dialog.

• Edit the attached file using the builtIn expecco text editor. This provides most required editing facilities and does not need any setup in your operating system.

• Edit the attached file using the builtIn expecco bitmap editor. This provides useful functions to deal with small bitmap images, such as icons. It is not a replacement for a full featured image manipulation program, such as gimp or commercial applications.

• Display the content of the attachment as text

• Display the content of the attachment as a hex dump

Text Editor Functions

The text editor's functions are a subset of the editor used for code editing and described in the "Code Editor documentation".

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