I'm not positive this is why but ordering, created by, and modified by are all not set when a new item is created and the fields actually don't show in the UI. They display after the first save. So depending on where in the test things are this might be why they are not acting the way you might expect.

Hi Elin,
This is decided on the created by field rather than editing fields. However out of the 3 you just mentioned only ordering doesn't physically show. Created by does show and is editable on creating a weblink.

Also if you look at the contact pull request there's another dodgy field - 'State or Province' - which should just be a straight input field - yet its not recognizing that either :/

Yeah there is a bug in the contact layout right now for new items.

Elin

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Hi Elin,
This is decided on the created by field rather than editing fields.
However out of the 3 you just mentioned only ordering doesn't physically
show. Created by does show and is editable on creating a weblink.

Also if you look at the contact pull request there's another dodgy field -
'State or Province' - which should just be a straight input field - yet its
not recognizing that either :/

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OK Now the contact component fix has gone through things have got a bit better :) The Revision and ordering fields don't show to new users

Which means that the only thing that Selenium isn't recognizing now is 'user select' fields. i.e. Created/Modified by fields and linked user field in the contact component.

Any ideas?

All three of those fields are field type users right? Maybe that is the
commonality?

Elin

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:13 PM, George Wilson notifications@github.comwrote:

OK Now the contact component fix has gone through things have got a bit
better :) The Revision and ordering fields don't show to new users

Which means that the only thing that Selenium isn't recognizing now is
'user select' fields. i.e. Created/Modified by fields and linked user field
in the contact component.

Any ideas?

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Indded - that's what I meant by 'user select' fields - I've dumped a post
into the joomla dev-cms group - hopefully someone may be able to explain
why those fields can't (for lack of a better word) be detected.

Kind Regards,
George

On 23 May 2013 19:24, elinw notifications@github.com wrote:

All three of those fields are field type users right? Maybe that is the
commonality?

Elin

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:13 PM, George Wilson notifications@github.comwrote:

OK Now the contact component fix has gone through things have got a bit
better :) The Revision and ordering fields don't show to new users

Which means that the only thing that Selenium isn't recognizing now is
'user select' fields. i.e. Created/Modified by fields and linked user
field
in the contact component.

Any ideas?

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Commit 642969b in master. Thanks!