Re: Get the index of test object

[mrinal rao]

U cant get a index like this it's not a property of an object.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:21 AM, mabobine <raheel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I need to know what is the index of the object. For that, I did the
following

Set x = description.Create
 x = Browser("ABC").Page("XYZ").WebEdit("Location").GetROProperty
("index")
msgbox (x)

msgbox displays empty

[Sourabh Arora]

wht u can do ...is set dropdown option in Tools->options to index nad then reccord the application and from the object repository u can find the index...

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:15 PM, mabobine <raheel...@gmail.com> wrote:

So there is no way I can get the index of an object?

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[Sourabh Arora]

object identification ->ordinal identifier as index

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:18 PM, mabobine <raheel...@gmail.com> wrote:

I couldn't find the option there. Can you please provide the exact
location from where this option can be selected.

Thanks

[Roman Zilber]

Use GetTOProperty

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:03 AM, mabobine <raheel...@gmail.com> wrote:

That would identify the object by index, if i am not wrong. What my
question is if there is any way to get the index of the object.

Regards

[Roman Zilber]

You right, it doesn't work.
Why do you need to know the index?

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:43 AM, mabobine <raheel...@gmail.com> wrote:

x = Browser("XYZ").Page("ABC").WebEdit("A12").GetTOProperty("index")

msgbox (x)

Displays empty

[Biswajit Agarwal]

if i am correct it wont work because the index is the QTP's index its not application index. QTP will display only application data bnot its own data...  correct me if i am wrong..  actaully touching QTP after 2 yrs..

[Roman Zilber]

That right:) Also once you have reference to real object, you don't need its index.
You probably have number of similar objects and want to find one of it. There are different ways doing it...
Look to this presentations, it may inspire you :)

http://www.slideshare.net/yassa/qtp-descriptive-programming/
http://mercuryquicktestprofessional.blogspot.com/2006/11/descriptive-programming-simplified.html

[Roman Zilber]

In order to find an object during playback QTP need to store number unique attributes about the object. Most of such attributes you can access with GetTOProperty, the web page can be closed, but you can call obj.GetTOProperty("abc") - the information comes from Object Repository. (We just have found it doesn't work for ordinal identifier.)
Again: GetTOProperty exists to find objects from Object Repository. Information about such attributes you can find in QTP help "WebEdit identification properties".


GetROProperty - exists to find real, run time properties of an object. Another way to retrieve that information WebEdit("abc").Object.<property name>
Information about <property names> can be found here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535841(VS.85).aspx (Attributes/Properties).

QTP uses TOProperties to match it with ROProperties, that means TOProperties of an object should be unique enough to match only one object on the screen. If there is no such properties, QTP uses ordinal identifier index or location. If you have 3 similar objects, QTP will assign index:=0 to first , index:=1 to second, index:=2 to third object.

This index doesn't exists outside of QTP.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:54 PM, mabobine <raheel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for the feedback..

Can you elaborate a little bit more on this

"...it wont work because the index is the QTP's index its not

application index. QTP will display only application data bnot its own

data...."

Isn't index the property of the test object? If yes, then as we can
play with the other properties, why can't we do the same with it.
Also, we can locate the index by providing the number by ourselves, so
why can't we provide the index prior to our guess of where it is
actually located.

Regards