Automation Id for system tray icon

[sebastso]

Hi,
Is there a way to provide automation ID for the system tray application? We're using Hardcodet wpf notify icon. When I use inspect tool, I cannot find Automation Id for the app.

[Lakritzator]

I know you are probably deep into this context, but pretend others do not know what you want to achieve with the information you wrote.

I will do some guessing:
You either want to do some UI automation, or you have a application which increases accessibility for less able users, and one of those solutions does not work optimally with your applications tray icon.

Some questions I got:

• You say you cannot find the automation ID for this app, you mean for the icon?
• Do you expect something you specified yourself, or are you talking generally that you expect some ID to be there?
• I'm not so deep into automation, just know some basics, so it's fair to ask: do other icons have such an automation ID?

I found in the Microsoft documentation of the Shell-API, which this project uses, only one reference of something called the guidItem, see here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi/ns-shellapi-notifyicondataa

I'm not sure, but I'd guess you expect a GUID for an automation ID?