The General preferences control what happens when you move test
elements, and how digital certificates are datapooled. The Colors and Fonts
preferences control how the editor displays datapool and correlation data.
The Search and Replace preferences control the behavior of search and replace.
General
Click , and click the General tab.
- Move selected items into new transactions
- Controls whether selected elements are automatically moved into
new transactions, or whether you are prompted each time to move them.
- Move selected items into new IF/ELSE blocks
- Controls whether selected elements are automatically moved into
new conditional blocks, or whether you are prompted each time to move
them.
- Move selected items into new loops
- Controls whether selected elements are automatically moved into
new loops, or whether you are prompted each time to move them.
- Move selected items into new random selectors
- Controls whether selected elements are automatically moved into
new random selectors, or whether you are prompted each time to move
them.
- Keep children elements
- When you delete a test element that has children elements, controls
whether the test element children are also deleted, or whether you
are prompted each time to delete them.
- Automatically datapool certificate names
- Controls whether and how digital certificate names are datapooled.
- Automatically adjust "once per user" datapool option
- Controls whether and how datapooled digital certificates return
datapool rows to a particular virtual user.
- Make user-defined strings available to all tests
- Click to save user-defined strings for content verification points
in the workspace (and thus make them available to other tests). Click Clear
saved to delete all saved strings.
Colors and Fonts
Click , and click the Colors and
Fonts tab.
Here are some tips for working with these settings:
- To change a color, click the color box. From the color palette that opens,
choose a different color.
- To save the current settings without closing the window, click Apply.
- To restore the settings to their factory defaults, click Restore
Defaults.
- To save and close, click OK.
- Information background
- Click to change the highlighting shade that distinguishes page
requests that contain datapool candidates, datapooled data, or correlated
data.
- Disabled Elements
- Disabled Elements: Enables you to select
the prefix and the color for the test elements that you manually disable.
Click Display nested to precede nested elements
with a double prefix (////). If you first
disable a test element and then disable an entire test, the test element
prefix is ////. Clear Display
nested to display all elements, whether nested or not,
with a single prefix (//).
- Use color to mark test elements with errors
- Click to display in red test elements that have errors.
- Appearance color options
- Shows the current color settings. Select an element, and then
click Foreground or background to
change the settings.
- Inline highlighting preview
- Enables you to inspect the settings before you actually set them.
Search and Replace
Click , and click the Search
and Replace tab.
- Save search text
- Click to retain the search text from session to session.
- Save selected search types
- Click to retain the test elements to search (pages, requests,
responses, loops, and so on) from session to session.
- Enable decorations on search results
- Click to differentiate between visited and unvisited search results.
For example, if you search for a name, and then click the text in
the search result to locate it in the test, the search result will
be marked in the color and the text that you specify.