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ecertain's avatar
ecertain
New Contributor
7 years ago

Identical Instances of an Object in same window - Same Mapped Name.

I need to be able to use buttons or icons that have identical properties, except for dynamic properties such as Id or position related items.  Below shows two sets of identical buttons/icons that are...
  • Marsha_R's avatar
    Marsha_R
    7 years ago

    What I would do is delete them both from the mapping and remap them.  Accept the default mapping from TestComplete so it takes the whole path.  That will get you the different ancestries and keep them separate.  Then you can change their Aliases if you want but keep them separate too.

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sreedevtr
Contributor
7 years ago

The two controls are having different object hierarchy. We can see this clearly in the Object Browser. If we map both the controls starting from their highest level parent control we can see that at some level both the controls will have  a different parent and hence we will be able to identify the controls uniquely if we can find properties combination that can identify this parent control uniquely

  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    7 years ago
    Exactly. Make those mappings in the ancestry of the objects and you'll have two unique objects. Let us know how it works out.