maintain Object Properties for UI in separate file and reference it in Browser Playback tool
Is there a way to maintain the object properties (xpaths) for each object in the UI as a separate entity and reference it in browser playback tool so that for any changes in UI properties, it can be modified in this file instead of visiting each test step.
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Hi @UK_
This is possible using a data source like CSV or Excel to maintain all the XPaths in separate columns and reference them from the Browser Playback tool. Even though there is no dropdown to select a parameterized data source column for the XPath in a Browser Playback took, you can use the ${COLUMN} notation for the referenced value to be resolved at runtime.

Just remember to escape double quote characters in CSV files. For details see https://www.freeformatter.com/csv-escape.html
I am attaching a working example of SOAtest TST and CSV files with UI xpath locators maintained separately.
Hey all,
The link that @Matt Love keeps posting in this thread is not working. Do you have a different link by chance?
This is @UK_ 's coworker
Hi @UK_
I'll summarize the information in the link on how to escape characters in CSV.
You can search on Google for the same information.