Multiple smart folders with same name?

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Multiple smart folders with same name?

Post by Thomas953 » Thu Oct 24, 2019 6:33 am

Hello,

I have a pretty big tree of different test cases and smart folders and sometimes the smart folders need to have the same name, but in other parts of the tree (like in other test cases). Is this possible or should I attempt at doing my tests in another fashion?

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Re: Multiple smart folders with same name?

Post by Support Team » Thu Oct 24, 2019 2:26 pm

Hello Thomas,

Thank you for posting your feature request.
There is a much debated feature request already entered on our User Voice platform. You can find it here.

It looks like the feature could make it into Ranorex soon.
I would recommend that you place your vote and leave a comment on our user voice platform.
Meanwhile, you unfortunately cannot use the same name for different smart folders and test cases.

Sincerely,
Tomaž

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Re: Multiple smart folders with same name?

Post by odklizec » Thu Oct 24, 2019 2:29 pm

Hi,

I'm desperately looking forward for this enhancement! ;)
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Re: Multiple smart folders with same name?

Post by Stub » Thu Oct 24, 2019 3:00 pm

Oh gosh, yes please. I've already voted for that one it seems. I ended up exploiting multiple Test Suites to work around clashes in the folder namespace at least a little bit. But within a test context it's often still a problem, yes.