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reshma
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago
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Test complete is not capturing the customized properties?

In our web application, developer has added 'auto-id' property for all the objects to make our tasks easier to identify the objects by unique id. We can able to see this property in Firebug of FF....
  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    10 years ago

    Object Browser shows only the standard HTML and DOM properties and attributes. Custom attributes are accessible via the getAttribute and setAttribute methods.

    But since custom attributes are included in outerHTML, you can map objects by partial outerHTML. For example, if you have this link:

    <a auto-id="my-link" href="http://example.com">Click me!</a>

    you can map it as follows:

    ObjectType: Link
    outerHTML: *auto-id="my-link"*

     

    Asterisks (*) around the value mean "any string" before and after the value.

AlexKaras's avatar
AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
10 years ago

Hi,

 

I believe that this property should be visible in the HTML markup of the given UI element (check the outerHTML property in the Object Browser). If my guess is correct, than you can search for the object with the required auto-id using .EvaluateXPath and/or .FindChildByXPath methods.

  • reshma's avatar
    reshma
    Occasional Contributor
    10 years ago

    Hi Alex,

     

    Thanks for your quick response.

     

    Yes.. You are right. I can see the property in outerHTML.

     

    Is there no way to map the object in namemapping instead of find the object in script by using EvaluateXpath() and FindChildByXpath() ?

     

    We are working in TestComplete for the past few years and we are using NameMapping instead of find the objects in script. Most of the objects in our application dont have unique id, so we fully depent on the object hierarchy. Recently few panels were introduced in between existing objects, so namemapping get broken. To make the script more robust, developers introduced a new property called 'auto-id' for all the objects. I thought that if we map the objects with this new property and enable 'extend find' feature, we can avoid name mapping issues in future though new objects would be included in between the existing one.

     

    Unfortunately object spy didn't capture the newly added property. So I have redo existing scripts by finding the objects by using EvaluateXpath() and FindChildByXpath() and eliminate namemapping? It will take lots of time for us to rework.

     

     

     

    • HKosova's avatar
      HKosova
      SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
      10 years ago

      Object Browser shows only the standard HTML and DOM properties and attributes. Custom attributes are accessible via the getAttribute and setAttribute methods.

      But since custom attributes are included in outerHTML, you can map objects by partial outerHTML. For example, if you have this link:

      <a auto-id="my-link" href="http://example.com">Click me!</a>

      you can map it as follows:

      ObjectType: Link
      outerHTML: *auto-id="my-link"*

       

      Asterisks (*) around the value mean "any string" before and after the value.

      • reshma's avatar
        reshma
        Occasional Contributor
        10 years ago

        Hi,

         

        Thanks for your valuable tips.

         

        As you suggested, I have tried with OuterHTML Property.Its working perfectly.