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While writing a Selenium test I needed to access the nid of a newly created node from Drupal.settings to use as part of a URL in another method. Simply trying to access Drupal.settings.nid in the storeEval method didn’t work, but dgtlmoon eventually figured it out. To access any global objects in the main browser scope, you need to access it from this.browserbot.getUserWindow(). Once you have stored a variable, you can access it with storedVars['key']....

There are plenty of blog posts out on the interwebs detailing this topic, but after having to sidestep 3 different tutorials and delve deep into the osx86 forums a few times to get my hack mini to where it is now… Lets just say I’ll be happy if this saves just one person the frustration and mental anguish I have experienced the last few days. If you don’t want to waste 60 seconds and get right to the good stuff, jump down 2 paragraphs....