How do you run multiple suites back to back in vscode?

Tools Visual Studio Code(ium)
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I just set up RobotFramework in vscode and got it to work finally, but it only runs the first suite when I select multiple suites. This is my first time using vscode. How do you run multiple suites back to back like in RIDE?

Thanks

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If you are using the Robot Framework Language Server (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=robocorp.robotframework-lsp), then you need to create a custom launch configuration in launch.json where the target is the folder with the files you want to run.

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Got it! It works! Thank you.

4

How would you skip a test suite? For example run test1.robot, test3.robot, test4.robot.
Thank you.

5

Hi, i remember that you could exclude test cases with tags like so: Robot Framework User Guide

6

Thank you. I am very new to vscode and the learning curve seems steep to me. I understand how to exclude tags in a command line, but not from vscode. I barely understand how to use vscode with robot framework.

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I figured it out. I may be wrong, but it works for me. I added the test suites into the arguments of the launch.json file and commented out TestSuite2 so it wouldn’t run. I had tried doing it in the tasks.json file but couldn’t get it to work. Again, I have no knowledge of how to use vscode as I have always used RIDE and probably will continue to do so for editing.
Here is what i did:
launch.json:

{
    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "robotframework-lsp",
            "name": "Robot with arg file",
            "request": "launch",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "target": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "args": [
                "TestSuite1",
                //"TestSuite2",
                "TestSuite3"
            ]
        }
    ]
}