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Share weight rules

If you’re working with a team, it can be very useful to share your weight rules, so that your colleagues can also avoid dynamic IDs and generate robust RanoreXPath expressions.

This page explains how it works and also contains the default weight rules in XML format.

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    Copy and paste weight rules

    Ranorex Studio stores weight rules as XML files. Sharing weight rules works by copying and pasting the content of a weight rule in the configuration dialog for attribute weights.

    In the configuration dialog for attribute weights, select the weight rule you want to share.
    Right-click the weight rule and click Copy.
    Paste the content into a text editor of your choice, save the file, and transfer it to the target machine.

    On the target machine, copy the content of the file, and in the configuration dialog for attribute weights, paste it into the list of rules.

    Default weight rules

    RxWinForms ControlNet11 Classnames

    <rule  
name="RxWinForms ControlNet11 Classnames"  
enabled="True"  
capability="nativewindow"  
attribute="class"  
setweight="0"  
conditionsoperator="and">  
    <condition  
    source="self"  
    attribute="class"  
    match="^WindowsForms10.Window"  
    negate="False"></condition>  
</rule>

    RxWeb YUI (Yahoo User Interface Library)

    <rule  
name="RxWeb YUI (Yahoo User Interface Library)"  
enabled="True"  
capability="webelement"  
attribute="id"  
setweight="0"  
conditionsoperator="or">  
    <condition  
    source="self"  
    attribute="id"  
    match="^yui(_d+)"  
    negate="False"></condition>  
    <condition  
    source="self"  
    attribute="id"  
    match="^yui-gen.*"  
    negate="False"></condition>  
</rule>

    RxWeb JS Frameworks (ExtJS, Sencha, Ozone Widget ,…)

    <rule  
name="RxWeb JS Frameworks (ExtJS, Sencha, Ozone Widget ,...)"  
enabled="True"  
capability="webelement"  
attribute="id"  
setweight="0"  
conditionsoperator="or">  
    <condition  
    source="self"  
    attribute="id"  
    match="^ext-.*d+.*"  
    negate="False"></condition>  
    <condition  
    source="self"  
    attribute="id"  
    match="^[a-z]+-d{4}(-[a-z]*(-d*)?)?"  
    negate="False"></condition>  
</rule>

    RxWeb jQuery

    <rule  
name="RxWeb jQuery"  
enabled="True"  
capability="webelement"  
attribute="id"  
setweight="0"  
conditionsoperator="or">  
    <condition  
    source="self"  
    attribute="id"  
    match="^ui-id-d+"  
    negate="False"></condition>  
</rule>

    RxWeb ASP.net

    <rule  
name="RxWeb ASP.net"  
enabled="False"  
capability="webelement"  
attribute="id"  
setweight="0"  
conditionsoperator="or">  
    <condition  
    source="self"  
    attribute="id"  
    match="^ctl00($|_)(.*($|_))"  
    negate="False"></condition>  
</rule>

    RxWeb GWT

    <rule  
name="RxWeb GWT"  
enabled="True"  
capability="webelement"  
attribute="id"  
setweight="0"  
conditionsoperator="or">  
    <condition  
    source="self"  
    attribute="id"  
    match="^gwt-uid-d+.*"  
    negate="False"></condition>  
    <condition  
    source="self"  
    attribute="id"  
    match="^isc_.+"  
    negate="False"></condition>  
</rule>

    RxWeb MS Dynamics CRM

    <rule  
name="RxWeb MS Dynamics CRM"  
enabled="True"  
capability="webelement"  
attribute="id"  
setweight="0"  
conditionsoperator="or">  
    <condition  
    source="self"  
    attribute="id"  
    match="[a-zA-Z_]+_{([0-9 A-F]+(-)?)+}_d+"  
    negate="False"></condition>  
</rule>

    RxWin32 Random Control IDs

    <rule  
name="RxWin32 Random ControlIds"  
enabled="False"  
capability="nativewindow"  
attribute="controlid"  
setweight="0"  
conditionsoperator="or"></rule>