PartialPageObjects should be scope providing

[Amiron49]

If I define a PartialPageObject I would expect it to be a reusable component so that you do not have to re-define it on every single page and that you do not need to rely on IDs to select sub components of it.

For example consider a kind of message box that has a button inside of it which is used multiple times on different pages/same page but each with a different ID, possibly generated from a template like this

<div id="{{ID}}">
 <button class="MyDialogButton">Ok</button>
<div>

PageObject

class Dialog: BasePageObject
{
 [Locate(How = How.CssSelector, Using = "MyDialogButton")]
 public Button Ok { get; set; }
}

Now on the page which uses 2 of them I would want to define it like this WITHOUT relying on extra IDs to access the Buttons
PageObject

class myPage: BasePageObject
{
 [PartialPageObject]
 [Locate(How = How.Id, Using = "Dialog1")]
 public Dialog Dialog1 { get; set; }

 [PartialPageObject]
 [Locate(How = How.Id, Using = "Dialog2")]
 public Dialog Dialog2 { get; set; }
}

class PageTest : AbstractTestcase
{
 ...
 myPageInstance.Button1.Ok.Click();
}

Considering how every single Locator is using an Xpath anyway a simple way would be to concat the Xpaths.

[florianwittmann]

Good request for sure.
If no Locate for a PartialPageObject and thus no scope is provided, it should keep the current behaviour and search the elements globally.