This article is a part of the series “Tutorials on HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)”

1. QTP Tutorial 4 - Recording of Tests in QTP with Drag and Drop Web Elements
This short tutorial guides you to the process of Recording and Running of tests in
QuickTest Professional (QTP) involving web application has drag and drop of elements
QTP does not record web drag and drop events such as ondragstart and ondrop by default. QTP
needs to be configured to capture these events. In QTP goto the Tools->Web Event Recording
Configuration and click the Custom Settings button. Save the settings to an XML file. Open the
XML file in notepad and enter the following two XML lines of code under <Object Name="Any
Web Object">
<Event Name="ondragstart" Listen="1" Record="2"/>
<Event Name="ondrop" Listen="1" Record="2"/>
In the custom settings screen, select Load Configuration from the screen anbd load the modified
XML file. If you click on "Any Web Object", now it should show on the list that it is capturing the
events ondragstart and ondrop.
When recording a test you will now see that QTP is capturing the drag and drop events. The code
will show that webElement("").FireEvent "onDrop"
If the drag and drop code uses Javascript to pass data through the clipboard for the drag and
drop operation, code needs to be changed. Since the event is executed from externally,
Javascript is not able to get a handle to the clipboard. The code might look like this:
var oData = window.event.dataTransfer;
This code needs to be changed to:
var oData = window.clipboardData;
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