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Hi,

in my testcases I have to use a password within a variable. My reports are logging on Reportlevek Info and display this password. For our company this is a security risk and I'm searching for possibilities not to display the value of this variable in the report.

One way would be to use another Reportlevel. But would it be possible to prevent displaying the value of one specific variable?

The problem isn't that Ranorex prints out the password, it is that you are using a real user's password for testing.

You should not use a real person's password when running tests. You should have a "test" user that is used for testing. This user should only have rights to the test environment. This should be the case whether you are using automation or not.

We are using Testaccount, but even this password should not be documented in plaintext in the report
We are a public administration, so we have to care about data privacy...

Hi bennylew,

We also faced a similar issue. Therefore, we decided to create a small executable which encrypts a specified set of data. Please find our solution as well as an instruction attached.

Hope that it fits your requirements.

Cheers,
Robin

Thanks for your replies, I solved it like this:

Creating a static class with static method that returns your password. In your modules get the password from the static class. So it's not on the report

Hello,

i'm new to ranorex and i'm facing the opposite Problem: i would like to see, wich data is delivered from the datasource. I know, that it s easy to display the values using a separate Report.Log-Statement, but is there a way to show the values automaticly in the report: Best regards from Bonn/Germany,
Martin

Hi Martin,

I'm not sure I understand your problem correctly. Typically, all binded variables are automatically displayed in report. The reason why the variable values are "dotted" in your report is that they are masked in the data source definition dialog. Please follow this post and "uncheck" all masked variables...
http://www.ranorex.com/forum/how-do-i-m ... ask#p34325

Hi Pavel,

thanks for your reply - and for the solution! It was my fault - i've missunderstood the word "mask". I thought that "mask" would be something like a filemask "*.*" or a mapping of a variable to a database column or something like that...

But now it's clear

Best regards,
Martin