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I am a beginner to UIAutomation. I wanted to know how do I tap one of the cells in a tableView thats inside an alert. As per Apple's UI automation documentation an alert will by default tap the cancel button if you dont specifically handle the alert and return true.

I tried the below written code (found at Apple developer). But this is still tapping the cancel button. 

// second alert box "Nearby listings:"
UIATarget.onAlert = function onAlert(alert) {
    var title = alert.name();
    UIALogger.logWarning("Alert with title ’" + title + "’     encountered!");
    if (title == "Nearby listings:") {
        target.frontMostApp().alert().tableViews()["Empty list"].cells()[2].tap(); //    tapping the second cell
        return true; // bypass default handler
    }
}

I would highly appreciate any kind of help.

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  • Are you trying to do this with an IOS app or something else? – Dan Snell Jun 20 '13 at 23:29
  • @DanSnell iOS App – Lisa Satpathy Jun 21 '13 at 6:08
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You may want to take a look at the index position of the cell you are trying to tap.

I am guessing that:

target.frontMostApp().alert().tableViews()["Empty list"].cells()[2].tap();

The [2] is likely the index position of that element in your collection. Take a look at the position of the cell in your collection and set the index accordingly.

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  • Thanks for the response. I moved my onAlert to the top (before the instance of UITarget)and that made it work. It was not even calling the onAlert function before. – Lisa Satpathy Jun 21 '13 at 20:01
  • Great - you can add it as an answer below with the code you changed and accepted as an answer. Good luck! – Dan Snell Jun 21 '13 at 20:41

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