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Ordinal Identifier in QTP

While learning the objects, QTP tries to identify objects based on the mandatory and assistive properties of the object. In case the above properties are insufficient to uniquely identify the object. QTP uses the ordinal identifier properties to uniquely identify the object together with the madatory and assistive properties.


There are three type of Ordinal Identifier in QTP which are assigned as numeric integer value for the object based on the order occurrence of object in the browser.


The three types of ordinal identifier are described below:



Ordinal Identifier

Description

 Index Based

Based on the object in the window, An index value is assigned to object based on existence in the source code. Index value starts from 0.

Location Based 

The Location property is based on location of object, works vertically from top to bottom and then from left to right. value starts from 0.

Creation Time

The Creation Time property is used for browser objects mainly and used to identify multiple browsers based on the time the browser/page was open. Value starts from 0

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