How to capture first link in webpage when content changes everytime??

am involved in webbased testing. I need to capture the very first link in website and in my case contents change everytime i refresh the site. So does that mean i need to record so many times or is there an alternative method. Also this link will be used to retrieve a value in later part of app. How to handle this?

Folks,

After much stress i got the answer too. When you are recording a webpage you will be able to see the active snapshots of a page in Active screen of QTP.

Go to active screen right click on the link and select "Insert output value". A small window(object selection) will pop-up with the link being highlighted. Click on its parent property say Webtable. Click <OK>

Table output properties window will be displayed. Select the corresponding text of the link and output the same to datatable.
Also since link changes everytime do export the datatable(runtime) to excel sheet using

[B]DataTable.Export("filepath")[/B]. Later on you can use the excel sheet in the script again by DataTable.Import function.

How about using regular expressions?

you can use the below script to click the first link in a page:

Browser().Page().link("ClassName:=Link", "Index:=0").click

You need to create Description object for the links on web page then using For loop count the no.of links on the page then retrive first link content.

Mahi

I think, there is no need to create a description object. This would be sufficient.

Browser().Page().link("ClassName:=Link", "Index:=0").click