Setting AutomationProperties on a NavigationPane?

Hi Kollen,

The Button objects you see are part of the template for the NavigationPane. When you look in UISpy, the "group" that contains them is the actual pane and that does have the Name property reflecting what title that pane has.

Does that help or would you like to tweak things more for you?

It would be good if the button itself reflected the caption in its Name property like Outlook but your suggestion is fine.

After talking more with our testers it seems the specific problem they were trying to solve is how to verify that after clicking a button that the content is loaded? Visually the caption above the pane changes but nothing changes in the automation tree i.e. the Name property of the ExpanderBar group always says "Navigation Pane". Ideally this would change to reflect the caption of the selected button.

Hi Kollen,

We have updated our automation support for NavigationBar and associated controls to more closely mimic Outlook. There is now a text element in the UI automation tree whose name reflects the selected pane. In addition, the panes are now represented by a single button with their name appropriately set.

These changes will be available in the next maintenance release.

Fantastic, thanks.