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pkudrys
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14 days ago
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how to get Object.Name without triggering element search

Hi guys,  I know that this topic may sound a bit weird, but I have a very good reasons for it :) Here is my situation... I have a mapped element, containing an xpath, which I need to pass to a func...
Name Mapping
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    pkudrys
    3 days ago

    Hi, thanks for the suggestion. It's something I considered as a very last resort. Luckily, I finally found the solution of my problem. It fact, it was "easily" solved by unchecking option "Search for visible objects first". 

    In my initial post, I mentioned, that the element was not found. But it was not the case! The name mapped element was actually always found, it just took quite a lot of time. And because I was impatient, I (prematurely) terminated the search. 

    After multiple (unsuccessful) tries of editing the xpath, I also tried to play with TC option. I did not expect anything, but surprisingly, unchecking the above mentioned option helped. After unchecking it, the search returned the element (and so Name property) almost instantly. 

    It's really weird, because according to the description, this option should be ignored in case there is used xpath expression, which is exactly what I'm using :D So it looks like a TC bug or, at very least, misleading description? 

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rraghvani
Champion Level 3
14 days ago

You might be over complicating things here.

The Name Mapping repository stores all the objects of your tested applications. This is then used to instruct TC on how to locate the object in your app. It's assumed that these objects exists, and you have various methods that can be used to check their existence.

If you call e.g. NameMapping.Sys.browser.pageCssButtons.buttonCssButton, TC will verify each object i.e. browser, pageCssButtons and buttonCssButton exists based on the property values given.

Name Mapping can not be used as a "variable", it's used internally by TC.

Assuming object NameMapping.Sys.browser.pageCssButtons exists, you can check if the object button exists e.g.

var btn = NameMapping.Sys.browser.pageCssButtons.WaitNamedChild("buttonCssButton", 3000);
if (btn.Exists) {
  // Performs testing actions over button
  // ...
} else {
}