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Leahy's avatar
Leahy
Contributor
6 years ago

Object Not Found during test but is mapped

Hi, I am having difficulty with testcomplete recognizing objects.  My computer was recently upgraded to Office 365. All my scripts fail (they all worked before).  I get "waiting for object" warning...
Leahy's avatar
Leahy
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I am not sure what is meant by "go to the object and map it from there".

 

I have re-recorded the script and still get "Waiting for pay_code object" then

 "Preparing Object Recognition Hint".  After another long, long wait, the script continues (succesfully) with the value copied into the variable

 

 When I look at the log I see "The object "pay_code" does not exist."

When I pull up the Object Spy, I get as the mapped name : "Aliases.hastus.Form.WIN_FORMTOOLSTRIPCONTAINER.WIN_FORMTOOLSTRIPCONTENTPANEL.Panel.pay_code"

 

From my code, this line gives the error:

"cur_paycode = Aliases.hastus.Form.WIN_FORMTOOLSTRIPCONTAINER.WIN_FORMTOOLSTRIPCONTENTPANEL.Panel.pay_code.wText;"

I have tried replacing "wText" with "Value", get same result.

 

I dont understand why it says it cant find it, says it will  give a recognition hint, waits for a very long time with error message on screen and then continues properly AND it found the item.

TanyaYatskovska's avatar
TanyaYatskovska
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
6 years ago

Hi Leahy,

 

You need to play with mapping criteria used to map your objects. Please refer to the following explaining in detail the suggested approach:

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/object-identification/name-mapping/basic-mapping-criteria.html

 

Name Mapping is a very powerful feature once you learn it in detail. Also, I recommend that you watch the following video explaining how to handle objects whose mapping criteria are changed from run to run (like in your case):

https://support.smartbear.com/screencasts/testcomplete/reliable-tests-for-dynamic-objects/

 

This video is quite old. However, it's still extra helpful.