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Hi,
Can anyone guide me how can I test notifications that appear on Role Center Page through automated testing?

After Notification.send() is called nothing happens next. Is there any way that I can catch the notification message ?
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When developing automated tests, there are external UI actions unavailable.

Notifications, might be an example. After SEND, the notification is displayed in the UI and if these has been specified with an action (ADDACTION) then users might have or not performed the action to click into the link.

This action is a UI action like, e.g. invoking an external dialog to upload a file, and test toolkit should not be able to catch it.

Maybe you could think of adding another separate testing module to mimic the action that would have been performed with the ADDACTION. That is the only solution that I could see, personally.

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you can try HandlerFunctions

docs.microsoft.com/.../devenv-handlerfunctions-attribute

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You could also extract all the zip files from test toolkit for baseapp from DVD.

These are in this directory

\applications\BaseApp\test

When you have all of them extracted, you could search in VS Code for SendNotificationHandler

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/developer/methods/devenv-sendnotificationhandler-attribute

and be inspired by the code written by Microsoft in these test codeunits.

Below just a screenshot snippet

and just an example with codeunit 138961 "BC O365 Payment Tests"

    [SendNotificationHandler]

    [Scope('OnPrem')]

    procedure NotificationHandler(var TheNotification: Notification): Boolean

    begin

        if StrPos(TheNotification.Message, 'The last email about this document could not be sent') <> 0 then

            exit;

        if TheNotification.Message = TaxSetupNeededMsg then

            exit;

        Error(UnhandledNotificationErr, TheNotification.Message);

    end;

    [SendNotificationHandler(true)]

    [Scope('OnPrem')]

    procedure VerifyNoNotificationsAreSend(var TheNotification: Notification): Boolean

    begin

        Assert.Fail('No notification should be thrown.');

    end;

Thanks to Mohana to remind the Handler usage.

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