Robot Framework - performing multiple keywords after running keyword if

Question

I am trying to execute multiple keywords if a condition evaluates as true.

I tried to do something like this

 *** Test Cases ***
| Example

 *** Keywords ***
| Example
|  | ${title}=  Get Title
|  | Run Keyword If      | '${title}' == 'Some Title' 
|  | ... Click Element   |  xpath=some element 
|  | ... Element Text Should Be  |   xpath=some element   |  some text
|  | ... Else
|  | ... Click Element   | xpath=other element  

The error I get when running this is that the Click Element expects 1 argument but gets 4.

I know that I can set the if statement in the Test cases section and if evaluated true it will run a keyword with all the stuff I want but I wonder if there is a way to do it from the Keywords section.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can do a couple of things. The first is to create a new keyword that calls all the other keywords, and then call that from Run keyword if . This might be the most readable solution, but at the expense of having to write and document another keyword.

The other choice is to use a combination of Run keyword if and Run keywords , like so:

| | Run Keyword if | '${title}' == 'Some Title'
| | ... | Run Keywords
| | ... | Click Element | xpath=some element
| | ... | AND | Element Text Should Be  |  xpath=some element | some text
| | ... | ELSE
| | ... | Click Element | xpath=other element

Answer 2

Run keywords does not take keywords with arguments so you cannot use this.Option is to create keyword for all statements below Run keywords and call it. https://robotframework.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/libraries/BuiltIn.html#Run --User keywords must nevertheless be used if the executed keywords need to take arguments.