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pkudrys
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14 days ago

FindAll returns only one (first) element

Hi guys,  I'm experiencing a weird problem. I have a mapped element, from which I need to get an array of elements. If tested in chrome/edge dev mode, the xpath of mapped element happily returns num...
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rraghvani
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13 days ago

The reason I said to do this,

let headerItems = headerInputs.FindAll('type','*',5000);
Log.Message("Number of items: " & UBound(headerItems))

Is so that I can see the number of items being returned by the FindAll method, without performing toArray.

Is there any object called 'type'?

The example that I provided, searches for this (ObjectType = Button) -

For reference, use any object name as shown in green, followed by a matching property value as shown in orange

 

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    pkudrys
    Frequent Contributor
    13 days ago

    Yes, there definitely is "Type" property in the found element. In fact, each of the elements, if inspected with Spy, have Type property. And I also tried other properties, unfortunately, with he same result. 

      

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    pkudrys
    Frequent Contributor
    13 days ago

    Just tried FindAll with Enabled=True. The same result.

     

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      rraghvani
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      13 days ago

      Could you create a new project and select JavaScript as the language (or convert the code and use VBScript). Using Chrome, navigate to https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_buttons.asp and run the following code,

      function GetAllButtons()
{
    var browser = Sys.Browser("chrome");
    var page = browser.Page("https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_buttons.asp").Panel(2).Panel(0).Panel("belowtopnav").Panel(0).Panel("main");
    var buttons = page.FindAll("ObjectType", "Button", 1);
    Log.Message(`Number of buttons on page ${buttons.length}`);
}

      Does it work, and does it return 56 buttons? I just want to eliminate and ensure that FindAll method is working as expected, before proceeding to the next step.

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        pkudrys
        Frequent Contributor
        13 days ago

        So, what happens is, that your code works, as expected. However, it fails in case there is used an Alias element as a parameter.

        It seems to me as a TC problem? Or is there another way how to get an array of items from an alias element, whose xpath points to multiple elements?