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DarylMM's avatar
DarylMM
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Name Mapping giving multiple page elements the same name

I have a situation where I have covered a number of pages within one website. Now the Name Mapping seems to be giving the same name to multiple elements on the page. When I map to say button 2, it is...
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    tristaanogre
    8 years ago

    To be able to help, it would be best to actually see the mapping criteria you are using for those components.  

     

    Generally, the behavior you are describing usually indicates that your mapping criteria is not unique enough.... that multiple items on screen satisfy the criteria and so TestComplete is grabbing the first one it finds.  If you were to actually run the test, you might get something like "Ambiguous object recognition".

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
8 years ago

To be able to help, it would be best to actually see the mapping criteria you are using for those components.  

 

Generally, the behavior you are describing usually indicates that your mapping criteria is not unique enough.... that multiple items on screen satisfy the criteria and so TestComplete is grabbing the first one it finds.  If you were to actually run the test, you might get something like "Ambiguous object recognition".