File uploading working manually but not through program

Question

My upload of csv file goes in this way, there is a text box where file path can be loaded through the browser button subsequently I would press the upload button, Now my problem reside here, While I try to do the aforementioned process through manually it's workign fine, but what happens is, when I try to do through programmetically, It's clearing the text field at the time of clicking the upload button consequently empty is taken from text field while uploading, so it's not uploading anything.

My piece of code :

$browser.file_field(:id,"additionalInfo(clientUri)").click_no_wait
      sleep 2
      save_dialog = WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control")
      save_dialog.ControlSend("Choose File to Upload", "", "Edit1", sMEPackageData['MachineryUploadPath'])
      sleep 2
      saveClick=save_dialog.ControlClick("Choose File to Upload","", "&Open")
      sleep 2

ruby 1.8.7,watir 3.0.0 Can anyone please help me on this ?

Answer 1

Watir provides a method for uploading files to file fields - FileField#set.

You simply pass the path of your file to the set method:

 $browser.file_field(:id,"additionalInfo(clientUri)").set(sMEPackageData['MachineryUploadPath'])