Format of external ID

[mikewells85]

Hi there,

I have searched these forums, and others, exhaustively. Can find lots of info about external IDs in general, just not what I am looking for.

I am planning to use TestLinks ability to import Test Suites and Test Cases as a way of Auto-Generating the import XML files in another tool and importing them in to TestLink. In the course of researching this I cam across a deviation in the format of the external ID.

I am currently using TestLink 1.9.5.

From the forum and various other locations, TestLink documentation etc, I am under the impression that the external ID format is PREFIX-<auto-generated number>, ABC-1, ABC-2, ABC-3 etc

However when I export the TestCase as an XML file the external ID that was assigned to it by TestLink was simply 1,2,3 etc.

Is this a setting that has been changed, a new format perhaps? At this point I am not sure if this is going to have an impact on my solution either way, apart from variable types, int or String for example.

I am just looking for clarification on the format, if my system is wrong, then perhaps some guidance on who to resolve it.

Thanks in advance,

Mike

[fman]

EXTERNALID = TESTPROJECT PREFIX + NUMBER
testproiects table column prefix contains TESTPROJECT PREFIX, if you change it external ID for all test cases belonging to test project will change
NUMBER: generated using testprojects table column tc_counter , and saved on tcversions table

[fman]

what about providing some feedback ?