Advanced Options

Modify Advanced options to change the matching of locator attribute names between case sensitive and case insensitive, to enable or disable Windows Accessibility (Accessibility) control recognition, and to add or remove focus when capturing text. Modify the Advanced > ActiveData options to control aspects of how Silk Test Workbench writes data to text-based (.csv or .txt) ActiveData files when editing the files using the ActiveData Asset Setup window.

  1. Click Tools > Options.
  2. Set Locator attributes are case sensitive to Yes to add case-sensitivity to locator attribute names, or to No to match the locator names case insensitive. The names of locator attributes for mobile Web applications are always case insensitive, and this option is ignored when recording or replaying mobile Web applications.
  3. Optional: If text capture does not work for your application under test, you can set Remove focus on capture text to Yes to take the focus off the application under test during a text capture. The default setting No leaves the focus on the application under test during a text capture. A text capture is performed during recording and replay by the following methods:
    • TextClick
    • TextCapture
    • TextExists
    • TextRect
  4. Set Use Microsoft Accessibility to Yes to enable Accessibility control recognition for Win32 applications, or to No to disable Accessibility.
  5. Click the plus sign (+) next to Advanced in the Options menu tree and then click ActiveData. The ActiveData options display in the right side panel.
  6. Set the options for your environment:
    Always quote fields

    Select Yes to enclose the data in each cell of a new ActiveData file in quotes. This option pertains to new ActiveData files only. Setting this option to Yes has no affect on existing files.

    Set this option to Yes when data to be used from an ActiveData file requires quotes.

    Note: If set to Yes, data in new ActiveData files does not appear in quotes during editing. However, the quotes do appear when editing the ActiveData file using the file's native application.
    Write empty trailing fields

    Set to Yes if you want trailing spaces entered after characters for each data item. For example, if the required data in a field is "data ", setting this option to Yes includes the trailing spaces as part of the data, so "data" is written to the field in the ActiveData file. Selecting No only includes characters without any trailing spaces. For example, if set to No, "data " written into a field would be saved in the ActiveData file as "data".

    Set this option to Yes if data to be used in an ActiveData test requires the trailing spaces to correctly test the application.

  7. Click OK.