Config Action Step in-Place Editing

A Config Action test command performs an action on an IxLoad test configuration element.

To edit a Config Action test command:

  1. Select the Config Action step in the Test Steps table.
  2. Edit the step parameters as follows:
    • Session: This column displays an Built-In Event session name.
    • Return Variable: This column displays a composite return variable name.
    • Command String: This column displays the Configuration Action string, followed by an X-Path expression that corresponds to the IxLoad configuration element you want to perform an action on, and an action string:
      • select: An X-Path expression that selects the IxLoad configuration element instance(s) you want to perform an action on.
      • In addition to the X-Path notation, the select statement also supports the notation that is used by the IxLoad Tcl API, whereby a configuration element is specified using an expression composed of the tree path, an ":" string, and an element index. For example, the "/traffic/trafficItem[2]" expression could be rewritten using the "/traffic/trafficItem:6" specifier, which illustrates the fact that the X-Path index and the Tcl API index referencing an entity of a configuration element are not necessarily the same.

      • action: An action to be performed on the selected element instance, which can be selected from a list of actions that are relevant to the current element.

Click into the column and then click the button that displays a drop-down pane as shown in Figure:Config Action GUI:

Figure:Config Action GUI

In the left pane, navigate the IxLoad configuration tree (which mimics the IxLoad Tcl API object hierarchy) and select an element. To quickly locate an element in the tree, enter its name in the Search field at the top of the pane and click the adjoining button.

From the middle pane select the instance(s) of the element currently active in the left pane.

From the right pane, which displays the actions relevant to the current child element instance, choose an action to perform.

Example:

Assuming we had the following Config Action command

Config Action Built-In Event Configuration Action

select="/ixload/repository/test[1] " action="startRun"

this would start ( action = start ) the execution of the test (specified by the select statement) located in the IxLoad repository.