Cannot automate AutoCompleteTextBox

[Gwynnbleid1]

Hi As you can see in image every AutoCompleteTextBox has the same automationid value. It is (IMO) because the name of textbox control element name is hardcoded to the name: "PART_Editor". Can you somehow fix this ? Maybe bind name property of textbox with holder property (i think it is Grid control in case of textbox)

[quicoli]

I will investigate

[mitchcapper]

It seems this is as expected from microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/ui-automation/use-the-automationid-property AutomationIdProperty does not guarantee a unique identity throughout the tree; it typically needs container and scope information to be useful. For example, an application may contain a menu control with multiple top-level menu items that, in turn, have multiple child menu items. These secondary menu items may be identified by a generic scheme such as "Item1", "Item 2", and so on, allowing duplicate identifiers for children across top-level menu items.

So having the same automation property across different instances of a control would be expected.