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michelleunique
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3 years ago

Using Variables for Numbers that Increase

Hello,    I want to create a test that goes in to our system and tests the function of creating and saving a work order. It needs to open up a new work order and assign that work order a unique num...
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  • MW_Didata's avatar
    MW_Didata
    3 years ago

    I believe you could use persistent variables, if you use +1 then the next day it should remember the value and do +1 again and so on...

    They can be found here:

     

    Temporary variables will not be remembered

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Marsha_R
Moderator
3 years ago

As MW_Didata said, persistent variables are the way to go. You might run into an issue if someone else is running the same test from a different TC instance or the work order gets updated some other way outside of TestComplete. If this is an issue, then you can add an If statement to check when you start to make sure that your variable value is greater than the highest one in the database, and if not, display an error.