Actions recorded in IE 6 won't playback in IE 7

[Steve Groves]

I am trying to find out why Internet Explorer 7 is having problems with actions recorded in IE 6. In particular, I have a TreeView that has Images to expand or collapse the TreeView in our application. I recorded them in IE 6, and am trying to run them in IE 7. I get a message that the Image object can't be found. The same settings are used for QTP 9.5 regardless of which IE version I am using; however, only IE 6 can click the images to expand/collapse the TreeView folders.

I've checked as much as I know about the Internet Options for both versions, and can't come up with why IE 7 can't find the Image object.

Any ideas or assistance is greatly appreciated. I have to be able to support both versions of IE, so the actions need to be able to Run under both.

[Ankur]

Have you disabled the tabbed browsing feature of IE7? Secondly can you let us know the object properties that are recorded in IE6 as well as in IE7 for the conflict image object?

[Steve Groves]

Ankur,

I checked the Object Identifications and the Object Repository, and here is what I have for each:

1. Object Idenficiations - Currently for the Web environment, I have the Image type setup with these properties: enabled, file name, image type. Smart Identification is enabled for this Object type, and it has Mandatory: html tag. The Optional properties are default values.

2. Object Repository - This action was recorded some time ago, but the Object Repository for the object in question currently has: "image type: Image Link", "html tag: img", "html id: blank", "class: icon", "alt: blank"

I have not disabled the tabbed browsing of IE 7, but will attempt to do so within the next few days. QTP is on my back burner, so I don't have the luxury of spending much time to devote to analysis.

Thanks for your interest in my problem.

Steve Groves

[Steve Groves]

Ankur,

I took your advice and I turned off the tabbed browsing for IE 7 and surprisingly enough to me, that seemed to solve my problem. I don't have time to figure out why, but if you could shed some light as to why you asked me to do this, I would appreciate that. Any extra knowledge I get will only be beneficial to me down the road.

I have a more serious problem with our application and QTP, but I will open a new thread for that.

Thanks for your assistance.

Steve Groves

[Ankur]

Good to hear that... The reason is simple, QTP doesn't support tabbed browsing feature yet and this was a known issue.