Directory Actions
Last Modified on 28 February 2023
The Directory actions give you control over creating, moving, copying, and deleting directories that are used in developing tests.
Directory Copy
| Icon | Description |
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 | The Directory copy action copies one directory to another location. If the directory that's trying to be copied doesn't exist, the test fails. |
Directory Copy Editor
| Function | Description |
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| Overwrite | Enables overwriting of directory contents at the target. If disabled, and you try to copy over existing content, the test fails. |
| Source | The location of the directory you want to copy. |
| Target | The location where you want to copy the directory. |
Directory Create
| Icon | Description |
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 | The Directory Create action creates a directory at a user defined location. |
Directory Create Editor
| Function | Description |
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| Target | The location where you want to create the directory. |
Directory Delete
| Icon | Description |
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 | The Directory Delete action deletes the target directory. This action has recursive and strict options that can control the behavior of the test. |
Directory Delete Editor
| Function | Description |
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| Recursive | If enabled, the element deletes all sub-directories and files. If disabled and the target directory has content, the test fails. |
| Strict | If enabled, and the target does not exist, the test fails. If disabled and the target does not exist, the test continues on as normal. |
| Target | Location of directory you want to delete. |
Directory Move
| Icon | Description |
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 | The Directory Move action moves a directory from one location to another. You can specify to overwrite a directory's contents if the target location already exists. |
Directory Move Editor
| Function | Description |
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| Overwrite | Overwrites the content of the target directory if it already exists. |
| Source | The location of the folder to move. |
| Target | Location where you want to move the source folder. |
Load Directory Content
| Icon | Description |
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 | The Load Directory Content action loads the content of a directory into a grid. This can be useful for verifying that a list of files matches an expected set, or for use within data driven testing to allow a test to run for each file in a directory.
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| Function | Description |
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| Directory Reference | This is the directory reference asset that stores the path to the directory to load. Select the arrow to choose the asset to use. |
| Resource key | This is the resource key of the grid that's loaded. |
| Include files in sub-directories | Select this to load files in sub-directories as well as the selected path. |
| Wild card | This is the wild card used to select files - it could be of the form '*.txt' or 'Report*.*'. For more complicated restrictions, use the filter. |
| Edit filter | Use this button to edit the filter of files to load. For more information about filtering, see the filtering topic. |
