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WesWhit
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23 days ago
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Textbox not found during test

I'm having a little trouble with a textbox on a WPF app. When I map it during record it fine and I can update the properties in the name mapping fine with the app open. These 2 thing can find the tex...
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    rraghvani
    23 days ago

    You have, what looks like, two identical dialogs. The only difference being the dialog caption name, one being "Detail for 'Asset 1test'" and the other being "Detail for 'Asset1'". 

    You need to manually create a name mapping for the dialog, using wildcard, e.g. "Detail for *" and then manually create the name mappings for Name, Type, Head etc controls.

    It's vital that you understand how Object Identification works in TC, and ensure you fully understand Name Mapping

    During record and playback, TC will map them separately, because the parent object being the dialog, has different caption names.

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rraghvani
Champion Level 3
23 days ago

To simulate user actions on an object in your tested application, you first need to identify the object, that is, to instruct TestComplete on how to locate the object in your tested application. Using name mappings, textboxInstasearch has the following values to identify the control ObjectType = Textbox, idStr = instasearch

I understand that it's not working, but I'm trying to understand what properties and property values have been chosen.