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LAB
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6 years ago
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A tale of two popups

Running a keyword test here, am wondering if it's possible to solve this without code.   I'm dealing with two popup windows on our website, one is start date, the other is end date. Both pop ups vi...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    6 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Unless I missed something in your question... It is my understanding that both cdk-overlay-* popups exist on the page (thus causing objects ambiguity recognition) but only one of them is visible at the given moment of time. If the above is correct, does it help if additional Visible=True identification property is added to NameMapping?

    (In the case if both cdk-overlay-* elements have Visible property set to true or false, you may consider to use Required Child functionality of NameMapping.)

  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    6 years ago

    It has to do with caching of mapped object, I believe. To improve performance, TestComplete caches a mapped object so that, if it is used more than once in the same test case, it doesn't have to be "found" again.  So, what is probably happening is that the first time it is used, it gets the handle for the "start date" generated object and caches that.  When you click the button for end date, it tries to use the cached value and probably gets lost in the process.  A potential solution to this, if you're using the same mapped object more than once in a test case and there is a potential for it to be destroyed, recreated, reconfigure, etc., to call "RefreshMappingInfo" on that object before you try using it the second time.

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LAB
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tristaanogre- I may have been a little vague in my description, these popups are originated from a start date and end date calendar button, but when they pop up they are generic in description, including any sub text unfortunately. Thanks for the response!

 

AlexKaras - This seems to have worked, at least in preliminary tests, thanks for the response!

 

I'm still a little confused as to why two objects in the same spot in hierarchy (in this case main window), with the same identifiers

 

ObjectType: Panel

idStr: cdk-overlay-*

VisibleOnScreen: True

 

are unable to be identified on screen with 1 name mapping entry. Is testcomplete looking at other object properties outside of the 3 being used?

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
6 years ago

It has to do with caching of mapped object, I believe. To improve performance, TestComplete caches a mapped object so that, if it is used more than once in the same test case, it doesn't have to be "found" again.  So, what is probably happening is that the first time it is used, it gets the handle for the "start date" generated object and caches that.  When you click the button for end date, it tries to use the cached value and probably gets lost in the process.  A potential solution to this, if you're using the same mapped object more than once in a test case and there is a potential for it to be destroyed, recreated, reconfigure, etc., to call "RefreshMappingInfo" on that object before you try using it the second time.