This is an article from Naveen Nischal, India. He will discuss a quick but important tip which can potentially save a lot of documentation time.
Say you want to include a piece of text every time you insert a new action. This piece of text can be some VBScript statements or a part of documentation information like date when the test was created, variables that are used by the test, change history to maintain log of all the changes etc. Something like what is shown in image below:
QTP does not provide any out-of-the-box way to include a piece of text -template- in every new action. However there is a roundabout way of doing this. We will call it as Action Template.
- Go to <dat> folder inside QuickTest Professional installation. Normally it can be found under C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\dat
- Inside <dat> folder create a file by the name ActionTemplate.mst Open it in notepad and include the information you would like to see whenever a new action is created.
- Done. Insert a new action in QTP and see it working!
Thanks Naveen. I’m sure our blog readers will like this tip.
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16 comments ↓
hi ankur, iam facing problem with creating the ActionTemplate.mst file. will you help me to create the ActionTemplate.mst file
hi ankur now iam able to create the ActionTemaplate.mst file so u can ignore my request..
Thanks,
brahma
Hi Ankur, i am unable to create ActionTemplate.mst.actualy in dat folder i created ActionTemplate.mst in note pad .there in that file whether interms of comment i have to give or what plz help me regarding this i am unable to do that
@anees – Yes, it gets inserted like comments. Check out the image above.
Hi Ankur,
Thankyou I am able to create Action Template.mst file.
and its working fine
Thanks
Anees
Hi Ankur,
i created ActionTemplate.mst in note pad. But still the text is not displayed when i insert a new action. Please help me regarding this.
merci Ankur ,pour la création c’est fait mais il y a pas d’autres “settings” à faire au niveau de QTP car ça marche pas ?! merci d’avance
encore moi dsl mai ç amarche pas ce truc je vois r1 même si j’ai crée le fichier sous le nom ActionTemplate.mst mai je peux s’avoir s’il il y a d’autres settings à faire au niveau de qtp plz ????
@koki: Can you please write that in English?
hi i’m sorry ok i created ActionTemplate.mst in note pad. But the text is not displayed when i insert a new action. Please help me .
Hi,
Thanks for the tip.
I have created the mst file but when an action is opened i could not see the format which i have used in the file.
Hi,
I created ActionTemplate.mst file in dat folder under C drive. But in QTP, when i click on New Test, i don’t see the default template. Please help me with this. Am i doing anything wrong here?
Thanks.
Hi, I want to create new QTP script with multiple actions say 3 actions login, abc, logoff programmatically. Is it possible to do this.
i could create a script with one default action – Action 1 but not able to Rename the Action programatically and not able to add additional actions into it.
i want to do it in a VBS/macro. please help me.
Regards
Mamatha TR
Its really cool
Good article
When ActionTemplate.mst file is saved in notepad, it is saved as ActionTemplate.mst.txt. So make sure that filename is correctly saved as ActionTemplate.mst.
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