Wildcards

Wildcards can be used along with various functions in Tosca Commander. This chapter outlines different use cases.

Tosca Engines

Technical identification

The following table lists the Tosca Engines which support the use of wildcards for screen and control identification.

Wildcards in technical identification

Engine	Screen identification	Control identification
Delphi	unrestricted	restricted
DotNet	restricted	restricted
HTML	restricted	restricted
Java	-	unrestricted
Powerbuilder	unrestricted	unrestricted
SAP	unrestricted	in dynamic IDs
Siebel	unrestricted	only regular expressions
UIA	unrestricted	-
Win32	unrestricted	unrestricted

Specifying values

The following engines support the use of wildcards when specifying values:

• Gupta Engine: Steering controls

• SAP Engine: TableTree

Tosca TBox

Wildcards can be used as follows in Tosca TBox:

• Specifying values in the Value column.

• Tables: row names, column names, cell names

• Parameters: BusinessID, TechnicalID, ReflectiveID, Transition

Detailed information can be found in chapter "Wildcards".

WizardMappings.dat

The WizardMappings.dat file supports the use of wildcards when entering class names (see chapter "Selection of a specific engine for the screen analysis – WizardMappings.dat").

These names are required when certain engines are registered in the WizardMappings.dat file in order to be considered when working with Tosca Wizard.