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royd
Regular Contributor
8 years ago

Handling different values of the same object attribute, in two areas of the application?

Using TestComplete 12.3, JScript.   The menu panel of our application "idStr" (id) value are different in two areas of our application ("mainMenuInner" and "navMenuInner" repectively). Is there a w...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    8 years ago

    Hi Dave,

     

    Two more options:

    a) Wildcards: e.g. var mainMenu = page.Find("idStr", "*MenuInner", 10, 1000);

    b) Regular expressions: e.g. var mainMenu = page.Find("idStr", "regexp: (mainMenuInner)|(navMenuInner)", 10, 1000);

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HKosova
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
8 years ago

UPD: AlexKaras beat me to it. :)

 

If there are no other objects with IDs ending in "MenuInner", you can use wildcard search:

var mainMenu = page.FindChild("idStr", "*MenuInner", 10);

Since v. 11.2, Find methods also support regular expressions:

var mainMenu = page.FindChild("idStr", "regexp:^(main)|(nav)MenuInner$", 10);

A couple of notes:

  • Use FindChild and not Find. Find starts searching from the parent object itself (in your example - page), FindChild skips the parent object.
  • The fourth parameter of Find/FindChild is a boolean (Refresh=true/false) and not a number. Review the parameters to make sure they are correct.