F.A.Q.
A place to have questions and solutions.
A: You have to disable auto-correction in MacOS System Preferences. See Issue #1949
2. Q: In the newest versions of RIDE (1.7.4) and with Robot Framework 3.1.2, when I edit a Test Suite having : FOR, then, when is executed, appears the following error: FOR loop contains no keywords.. How to fix this?
A: Robot Framework is tolerant to the old : FOR format, and the test suite can be executed correctly. However, when the file is edited in RIDE, it looses the old style formatting, so you must add the terminating END.
In the next images you can see how is shown the old and new styles (the Code Editor is showing the file not formatted):
Then it must be changed to:
3. Q: I installed RIDE, on Python 3.7 but it does not start, see below the error. How to start RIDE?
```
C:\>ride
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Python37\Scripts\ride.py", line 21, in <module>
from robotide import main
ImportError: No module named robotide
```
A: A possible way to start RIDE is:
python -m robotide.__init__
You can then go to Tools>Create RIDE Desktop Shortcut, or run the shortcut creation script with:
python -m robotide.postinstall -install
4. Q: How can I preserve the Log.html and Report.html from different test runs, preferably with a timestamp?
A: You should use the robot option for the output directory (-d) in the arguments text field. See
Issue #1891
See below an example for Windows, using date formatting in the current test directory:
-d ./%date:~-4,4%%date:~-10,2%%date:~-7,2%
The similar result in Linux or MacOS can be obtained with the date command:
-d `date +%F_%X`