Not sure how to do this with QTP, but it's something that Tellurium does on the fly, automatically (www.te52.com)
How to make QTP recognize an element from sub dropdown list
When a value is selected from the dropdown the sub drop down list is populated in a field.QTP can recognize that sub dropdown list but cannot select a value from that list.
Even virtual object concept is not working. How to select (basically click)element from that drop down?
2 Answers
I once had a sub-menu in a web application that was not recognized by QTP. I came up with a very barbaric method to select the items in the sub-menu. The sub-menu that i needeed was not going to change in the foreseeable future, therefor I created a function using cases for the number of items in the sub-menu.
Lets use an example. we'll use #2 as our case, meaning that we want to select the second item in the sub menu. Calling another function(you'll use it a lot) that uses sendkeys to imitate the users click of the Down key and the Enter key. Therefor, the number of presses to the down key = 2(acording to the id of the case) and Enter one press.
Again this would really only be good if the sub-menu is not supposed to change in the foreseeable future, otherwise maintaining the code would be a big waste of time.
Hope this helps, good luck!
Yosef
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