Intermittent Objects Not Found

Hi Tom,



I would suggest you to delay the script until that particular object gets exist.



While (QuickSearchIcon.Exists = False)

      Delay(1000);

Wend



QuickSearchIcon.Click();



Also , to add further , please check the properties selected for identifying the objects in name-mapping file.. it might be the case that the properties selected are clashing with other objects. Please try to give unique properties.



I hope this has been of some help

I'm trying that, thanks.



This morning I am running two scripts in the same project, one immediately after the other. The same object with the same name mapping is called in each script. TC will find it easily in the first script but does not find it in the second script.  The properties of course are the same in the name mapping and seem to be very stable.

I have added the delays and checked properties. I am continuing to have the same problem, even in locations where I have "corrected" it. What else can I do?

WaitProperty method is more appropriate, if you are not sure about exact delay. Further check the variable names may be there is some misspelling or upper/lower case issue.



QuickSearchIcon.WaitProperty("Exists", true, 10000); // wait for max 10 sec.



QuickSearchIcon.Click();

Thanks, I have not tried that.



Why is it when I do this

while(POLinesTab.Exists==false)

Delay(1000);

POLinesTab.Click();

It will sometimes  tell me the POLinesTab object is not found?  Where is it overriding this, or is it simply ignoring the 'while', or does the object somehow exist but still is not found?

I am getting the same behavior with the WaitProperty as I did in my previous post with Wait.

I would suggest check you Namemapping, use Object Spy and point out to your control and see MappedName value is filled. Copy MappedName value and compare it with the value you are using in script.

Thanks.



I've done that repeatedly.

Hi Tom,



I am guessing here, to be honest. Just wondering whether there is a container page element that is slow to load, causing the occassional 'object not found' for the target object.



I understand that you are making use of Name Mapping and have tried WaitProperty.



I'm wondering whether a FindChild might help, if possible?





  Set objObjectToStartFrom = objPage

  arrProperty(0) = "ObjectType"

  arrValue(0) = "Textbox"

  arrProperty(1) = "ObjectIdentifier"

  arrValue(1) = "TUserName"

  intDepthOfSearch = 12

  clkStopTime = GetTickCount() + 30000

 

  Set objObjectToBeFound = objObjectToStartFrom.FindChild(arrProperty, arrValue, intDepthOfSearch)

 

  Do While GetTickCount() < clkStopTime

    If objObjectToBeFound.Exists Then

      Log.Checkpoint "Object found: " & arrValue(0), "", pmNormal

      Exit Do

    End If

    Set objObjectToBeFound = objObjectToStartFrom.FindChild(arrProperty, arrValue, intDepthOfSearch)

    aqUtils.Delay(100)

  Loop

I tried using "Find" but it slowed performance down unacceptably and there were issues concerning finding objects by properties, so we abandoned that approach as too slow and unreliable.