Script failing as the Object name changes for each build

[Sri]

Hi Ankur,
We have started using QTP recently in our office.I have started my regression suite with just 5 scripts and I am having difficulty maintaining those 5 scripts as the Object name that QTP assigns is changing for every build.How can I handle this time of scenarios in QTP ?

If you see at the following example. The names are different in 2 different build for the same object.

Build 1:

Code:

Browser("ADMServer Login").Page("ADMServer_3").WebEdit("ADMServerPanel1$ctl03$ctl05$Se_5").Set "100"

Build 2:

Code:

Browser("ADMServer Login").Page("ADMServer_3").WebEdit("ADMServerPanel1$ctl03$ctl05$ct_51").Set "100"

[Ankur]

Use regular expression here... I see only the last four letters/digits are changing in this case.

Go to object repository and change the description to

ADMServerPanel1$ctl03$ctl05$.*

[Sri]

Thank you for the reply Ankur. I had to alter a little bit more inorder for this to work. I changed it to .*\$.*\$.*\$.*

[Ankur]

ok, good. Since we are using $ as a literal character and not as regular expression so u need to escape with \$ and not $