1. Do one of the following:

   • Ensure that a GUI test, action, or component is in focus in the document pane.
   • In the Solution Explorer, select a GUI test or component node or one of its child nodes.
2. Select Tools > Object Identification.

• Only currently loaded environments are listed in the Environments box.
• You cannot include the same property in both the mandatory and assistive property lists.
• Any changes you make in the Object Identification dialog box have no effect on objects already added to existing object repositories. To update the test objects in the object repository, run the test or component in Update Run Mode using the Update test object descriptions option.
• The learned and Smart description properties of certain classes cannot be configured, for example, VbLabel objects. Such classes are therefore not included in the Test Object classes list for the selected environment.
• Insight and Text test objects are not available in this dialog box.

• To quickly jump to a property, click in the list of properties and start typing the property name.

Configure object identification for a test object class

The list of environments, according to the loaded add-ins. This list may also include additional environments for which you or a third party developed support using Add-in Extensibility.

The list of the test object classes associated with the selected environment.

The list of properties that OpenText Functional Testing always learns as part of the description for test objects of the selected class.

The list of additional properties that OpenText Functional Testing can learn for a test object of the selected class to create a unique test object description.

Up and Down arrows. Enable you to set the preferred order for the Assistive Properties list.

When OpenText Functional Testing learns an object, and assistive properties are necessary to create a unique object description, OpenText Functional Testing adds the assistive properties to the description one at a time until it has enough information to create a unique description, according to the order you set in the Assistive Properties list.

Enables you to add or remove properties for the test object class using the Add/Remove Properties Dialog Box.

Enables or disables Smart Identification for the selected test object class.

Opens the Smart description properties Dialog Box, which enables you to specify the properties for OpenText Functional Testing to learn as Smart description properties.

Enabled only when the Enable Smart Identification checkbox is selected.

The type of ordinal identifier to use when OpenText Functional Testing needs to identify an object with an otherwise identical description. The ordinal identifier enables OpenText Functional Testing to assign a serial order value to each of the otherwise identical objects. For details, see Ordinal identifiers.

Supported for Web test objects

Values taken from property. The property OpenText Functional Testing uses to create the test object's logical name.

Using regex. (Optional) A regular expression that extracts the part of the property to use for the name.

See Configure object identification for a test object class.

Enables you to map an unidentified or custom class to a standard Windows class by opening the Object Mapping Dialog Box.

The down arrow enables you to select one of the following options:

• Reset Test Object. Resets the selected test object to the system default. (Default selection)

• Reset Environment. Resets the settings for all the test objects in the current environment to the system default.

• Reset All. Resets the settings for all currently loaded environments to the system default.

You can restore the default settings for object identification and the Smart identification settings for all loaded environments, for the current environment only, or for a selected test object, using the Reset Test Object option in the Object Identification Dialog Box.

Only built-in object properties can be reset. When you reset the settings for the standard Windows environment, user-defined objects are also deleted. For details on user-defined objects, see Test object mapping.

Enables you to generate an automation script that sets the current object identification settings.

When you click the Generate Script button, a Save As dialog box opens, enabling you to specify the name and file system location to store the generated file.

You can use some or all of the script lines from this generated script in an automation script. This can be useful, for example, if you to set the same object identification settings on multiple OpenText Functional Testing computers.

View a sample generated script

For more details, seeProduct automation scripts and the OpenText Functional Testing Object Repository Automation Reference.