# Can you force all objects upon detection/recording to be identified by a certain identifier?

**URL:** <https://forum.katalon.com/t/can-you-force-all-objects-upon-detection-recording-to-be-identified-by-a-certain-identifier/10543>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous\
**Created:** [April 26, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/can-you-force-all-objects-upon-detection-recording-to-be-identified-by-a-certain-identifier/10543 "2018-04-26T12:46:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Greg\_Roy](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/greg_roy/32/4091_2.png) [@Greg\_Roy](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Greg_Roy)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/can-you-force-all-objects-upon-detection-recording-to-be-identified-by-a-certain-identifier/10543/1 "2018-04-26T12:46:21Z")

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I noticed while recording a script as part of the tutorial that Katalon tracked multiple methods to identify a web object. In many cases it selected something other than the ‘id’ of the object by default. Is there a way to change that default behavior so that it selects ‘id’ first if it is present before using other methods to identify an object when recording a script or adding via the object spy?

Thanks,  
Greg

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**Author:** ![Russ\_Thomas](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/russ_thomas/32/11884_2.png) [@Russ\_Thomas](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Russ_Thomas)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/can-you-force-all-objects-upon-detection-recording-to-be-identified-by-a-certain-identifier/10543/2 "2018-04-26T15:46:30Z")

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Hi Greg

Is this what you’re looking for?

![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/katalon-forum/editor/id/zw6cvyoeen0y.png "Image: https://s3.amazonaws.com/katalon-forum/editor/id/zw6cvyoeen0y.png")

[image.png](https://s3.amazonaws.com/katalon-forum/editor/id/zw6cvyoeen0y.png)

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**Author:** ![Greg\_Roy](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/greg_roy/32/4091_2.png) [@Greg\_Roy](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Greg_Roy)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/can-you-force-all-objects-upon-detection-recording-to-be-identified-by-a-certain-identifier/10543/3 "2018-04-27T19:25:31Z")

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That was exactly it - I again forgot to come back here to mention I found it with just a little bit of looking around. I had originally forgotten that was under the project settings