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How to identify a dynamically changing html id using QTP/UFT

There is a text field on the page that I would like QTP to enter amount for me. The HTML ID of the field has a dynamic name gh44jer4u.Amount but ends with a word amount. How can I refer to that? Can I use Contains or Ends with inside html id?

Something like this:

Browser("Browser").Page("Page").WebEdit("html id:=.Amount").Set "348934"
Solution

  • When using descriptive programming UFT uses regular expressions. So the . you're using is not the literal string ".", rather it means any single character.

    The description needs to fit the entire string so you need something like this.

    .*\.Amount

    Which according to regex101.com means:

    /.*.Amount/
    .* matches any character (except newline)
    Quantifier: * Between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed [greedy]
    \. matches the character . literally
    Amount matches the characters Amount literally (case sensitive)

    So the full line should be:

    Browser("Browser").Page("Page").WebEdit("html id:=.*\.Amount").Set "348934"