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RockyRoadn
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3 years ago
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DropDown() / ClickItem() Timing out

Hello All, Encountering a weird problem when interacting with a dropdown menu in a web app that I'm testing in Chrome.  Sometimes it works as expected and the test advances.  However, the majority o...
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    RockyRoadn
    3 years ago

    Thanks Marsha, so the Object name did not change after refreshing But... there is a GET request appending a query string to the URL on the page the dropdown is on.  On a lark I moved my wild card a little further down the URL string closer to the query string that's being stored in my subPage variable and it has, thankfully, started working again... 

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Marsha_R
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Is it possible that the object name (or other property you are using) of the drop down is changing when the page refreshes?  That would cause TC to not recognize it.  

 

Try checking the drop down with Object Spy, then manually refreshing the page, and then check with Object Spy again and see if the object name is different.

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RockyRoadn
New Contributor
3 years ago

Thanks Marsha, so the Object name did not change after refreshing But... there is a GET request appending a query string to the URL on the page the dropdown is on.  On a lark I moved my wild card a little further down the URL string closer to the query string that's being stored in my subPage variable and it has, thankfully, started working again...