How to open UFT with “Run as administrator” option via script?

Document ID:KM01417384
Creation Date:25-Feb-2015
Modified Date:25-Feb-2015
- Micro Focus Products:
  unified functional testing

Summary

For different reasons it could be needed UFT to be started with “Run as administrator” option via script. How to do that?

Question

For different reasons it could be needed Unified Functional Testing (UFT) to be started with “Run as administrator” option via script. For example the first connection to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) should be done with administrator rights in order the ALM components to be downloaded and registered. Instead of doing it manually it could be done via script by starting UFT with "Run as administrator" option.

Answer

The following script provides example how to run UFT with “Run as administrator” option and then to connect to an ALM server.

set shellObj = CreateObject("Shell.Application")

shellObj.ShellExecute "full path to the UFT.exe", "" , "", "runas", 1   ‘That line will start UFT with “Run as administrator” option
WScript.sleep 30000    ‘wait till UFT is launched
set qtApp = CreateObject("QuickTest.Application")
qtApp.Launch
qtApp.Visible = True

qtApp.TDConnection.Connect "http://server name:8080/qcbin", "domain", "project name", "user name", "password", False ‘Connect to an ALM server
      If qtApp.TDConnection.IsConnected then ‘perform a simple check if the connection is successful
           msgbox "Connection successful"
      end if
qtApp.TDConnection.Disconnect     ‘disconnect from the ALM server
qtApp.Quit
set qtApp=nothing

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