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DanH
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5 years ago

How to map multiple instances of the same form

Hello,   I've got a bit stuck with a test which runs two instances of the same form.   The situation is:   We have a Winforms application which has a form frmInvoice, this is used for a wide ra...
Name Mapping
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    hkim5
    5 years ago

    are the invoice forms precisely the same for every single kind? purchase, credit note, etc?

    If not, I'd suggest creating a persisten project level variable, and using those variables as a unique identifier within the name mapping properties of that invoice object within the name mapping repo.

    So at the top , it may say something like (object type- something) for the form, but you can edit and add in additional properties, say perhaps a txt identifer of some kind, that points to that persistent variable that tells testcomplete which invoice form you want to perform the settext or keys operations on.

     

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DanH
Contributor
5 years ago

Hello there,

Thanks for your suggestion, I’ve now managed to sort the issue out.

After trying to save the form frmInvoice as an object in Stores for both Purchase Invoice and Purchase Credit Note and drilling down into its properties to figure out which one to use… then realising that, whilst it might work, would be very cumbersome, I followed your advice simply copying the mapped objects and adding a filter to the properties.  I opened up my name mappings and copied the mapped object frmInvoice. I then renamed one version frmInvoiceForPI, and one frmInvoiceForPCN. I then simply added a property to filter by the FormCaption to be either “Purchase Invoice” or “Purchase Credit Note”. It is now easy to distinguish between the two instances of the form when writing code:  The different mapped objects also seem to be correctly used when simply recording KeyWordTests.

Thanks again,

Dan