Clicking a test page shows you a table that lists datapool candidates and correlated data on that page. (If correlated data is not displayed, right-click the table and verify that Show References is selected.) References are shown in blue letters and datapool candidates are shown in black letters.
If the contents of the Value column corresponds exactly with column data in your datapool, click the row, and then click Substitute. The Select Data Source window opens. Skip to step 6. You can ignore step 8, because URL encoding is preselected.
Otherwise, double-click the row to navigate to the page request that contains the value to replace from a datapool, and continue to the next step.
The value to replace from a datapool might not be listed in any page table. In this case, manually locate the request string that includes the value.
To indicate that the association has been set, the highlighting for the selected test value turns dark green, and the datapool table for this page is updated as shown in the example.
If a test value contains special characters such as spaces or commas, click the row and select URL Encode. With this option, special characters are encoded when variable data is substituted from a datapool. For example, data that is space-separated in a datapool column might need to be encoded. When URL encoding is enabled, John Doe is substituted as John%20Doe. If URL encoding is not selected, the variable data that is substituted is literal. Do not enable URL encoding for datapools that contain data that is already encoded.