Script error "Unable to find object" on object that is defined but not used.

If the object is not present in the system memory at the time you run the test, you'll get that error.



You're not going to be able to create a list of objects in memory in this fashion when the objects don't exist yet in system memory.  That is what NameMapping and Aliases are for.   

Well, that's kind of bites.  I say this because I wrote a script that does FindAll for every relevant type of element on the page and creates code for each element definition with pageName_elementName = page.ect.ect.elementDefinition. 



Okay, so how about this: Is there any way perhaps to create aliases for the NameMapping in a Script step programatically rather than having to go in to set-up the page element names manually?

Currently, Aliases cannot be defined and created in code.  You'd have to use the NameMapping tool to map out your components ahead of time.



It's not that you cannot create an object repository in code, just that you'd have to wrap each item in a function to reference it, like below.

function participantEdit_participantUrl ()

{

return Sys.Process("iexplore").Page("*").Panel("container").Panel("pageCell").Panel("pageContent").Panel("content").Form("ParticipantSaveForm").Fieldset(1).Panel(5).Textbox("participantUrl");

}

The point is that the object would then resolve upon calling the function.  The code you posted earlier, the variables outside of the function need to resolve first... if you wrap them in functions like above, then you can do all your definitions in code and call them at will.



I'd suggest though that you liberally use code like FindChild, WaitChild, etc., in your code so that the code does the appropriate waiting until an object exists before it tries to get a reference to it.



A different tactic would be that, instead of creating objects like this or using name mapping, to liberally use FindChild and FindAllChildren within the tests themselves, specifically create wrapper routines that, given a parent object, you'd find any child object kind of like this

function GetMyObject(ParentObj, PropertyArray, ValuesArray)

{

return ParentObj.FindChild(PropertyArray, ValuesArray, 10, true)

}

Thanks!  The function thing worked.  Though it would be nice for there to be some way to set Aliases dynamically in scripts (especially for those of us coming from a framework like Watir who are used to setting up EVERYTHING in scripts), something like:

Aliases.add("alias_variable_name", "page.ect.ect.elementDefinition");

Here's the Object Repository creation code I wrote (below). It puts the object functions into c:\testfile.txt

function FindPageObjsAndCreateObjRepository()

{

//ObjRep();

var fso, tf;

fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");

tf = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", true);

var pageObjNames = new Array();

var pageObjNamesIndex = 0;



//Page

page = Sys.Process("IEXPLORE").Page("*");

pageURL = page.ObjectIdentifier;

  //find page name from Title bar in browser tab

pageTitle = Sys.Process("iexplore").IEFrame(0).CommandBar.TabBand.TabButton("*").Name.split("\"")[1];

pageTitleElements = pageTitle.split(" ");

for(var i = 0; i < pageTitleElements.length; i++)

{

 if(i == 0)

  pageTitle = pageTitleElements.toLowerCase();

 else

  pageTitle = pageTitle + pageTitleElements;  

}

pageTitle = pageTitle.toString().replace(/\W/g, '');

//Optional: specify page title alias

pageTitle = "rmLogin";

tf.writeLine("/*");

tf.writeLine("\t" + pageTitle + " page objects");

tf.writeLine("*/");

tf.writeLine("//var pageURL = \"" + pageURL + "\"\;");

tf.writeLine("function " + pageTitle + "(){return " + page.FullName.replace(pageURL, "*") + "\;}");



//Textboxes

tf.writeLine("//");

tf.writeLine("//Textboxes");

tf.writeLine("//");

pageObjs = page.FindAll("ObjectType", "*Textbox*", 9999);

pageObjs = (new VBArray(pageObjs)).toArray();

 for(var i = 0; i < pageObjs.length; i++)

 {

  //If page objects have the same name, add an index number for each subsequent entry

  var objNum = 1;

  var pageObjName, newPageObjName;   

  pageObjName = pageObjs.ObjectIdentifier;

  newPageObjName = pageObjName;

  pageObjNames[pageObjNamesIndex] = pageObjs.ObjectIdentifier;

  for(var z = 0; z < pageObjNames.length; z++)

  {

    if((z != i) && newPageObjName == pageObjNames)

      {

       objNum++;

       newPageObjName = pageObjName + objNum;

       pageObjNames = newPageObjName;

      }    

  }

  pageObjName = newPageObjName.toString().replace(/\W/g, '');

    //if object name is just a number, add object type to the name to make it unique

  if(!isNaN(pageObjName))

    pageObjName = "textbox" + pageObjName;

  

  

   tf.writeLine("function " + pageTitle + "_" + pageObjName.replace(/\s+/g, '') + "(){return " + pageObjs.FullName.replace(pageURL, "*") + "\;}");

   pageObjNamesIndex++;

 }

pageObjs = page.FindAll("ObjectType", "Password*", 9999);

pageObjs = (new VBArray(pageObjs)).toArray();

 for(var i = 0; i < pageObjs.length; i++)

 {

   tf.writeLine("function " + pageTitle + "_" + pageObjs.ObjectIdentifier.toString().replace(/\W/g, '') + "(){return " + pageObjs.FullName.replace(pageURL, "*") + "\;}");

 } 



//Textareas

tf.writeLine("//");

tf.writeLine("//Textareas");

tf.writeLine("//");

pageObjs = page.FindAll("ObjectType", "*Textarea*", 9999);

pageObjs = (new VBArray(pageObjs)).toArray();



 for(var i = 0; i < pageObjs.length; i++)

 {

  //If page objects have the same name, add an index number for each subsequent entry

  var objNum = 1;

  var pageObjName, newPageObjName;   

  pageObjName = pageObjs.ObjectIdentifier;

  newPageObjName = pageObjName;

  pageObjNames[pageObjNamesIndex] = pageObjs.ObjectIdentifier;

  for(var z = 0; z < pageObjNames.length; z++)

  {

    if((z != i) && newPageObjName == pageObjNames)

      {

       objNum++;

       newPageObjName = pageObjName + objNum;

       pageObjNames = newPageObjName;

      }  

  }

  pageObjName = newPageObjName.toString().replace(/\W/g, '');

    //if object name is just a number, add object type to the name to make it unique

  if(!isNaN(pageObjName))

    pageObjName = "textarea" + pageObjName;

  

  

   tf.writeLine("function " + pageTitle + "_" + pageObjName.replace(/\s+/g, '') + "(){return " + pageObjs.FullName.replace(pageURL, "*") + "\;}");

   pageObjNamesIndex++;

 } 



//Drop down selection boxes

tf.writeLine("//");

tf.writeLine("//Drop down selection boxes");

tf.writeLine("//");

pageObjs = page.FindAll("ObjectType", "*Select*", 9999);

pageObjs = (new VBArray(pageObjs)).toArray();



 for(var i = 0; i < pageObjs.length; i++)

 {

  //If page objects have the same name, add an index number for each subsequent entry

  var objNum = 1;

  var pageObjName, newPageObjName;   

  pageObjName = pageObjs.ObjectIdentifier;

  newPageObjName = pageObjName;

  pageObjNames[pageObjNamesIndex] = pageObjs.ObjectIdentifier;

  for(var z = 0; z < pageObjNames.length; z++)

  {

    if((z != i) && newPageObjName == pageObjNames)

      {

       objNum++;

       newPageObjName = pageObjName + objNum;

       pageObjNames = newPageObjName;

      }  

  }

  pageObjName = newPageObjName.toString().replace(/\W/g, '');

    //if object name is just a number, add object type to the name to make it unique

  if(!isNaN(pageObjName))

    pageObjName = "dropDownBox" + pageObjName;

  

  

   tf.writeLine("function " + pageTitle + "_" + pageObjName.replace(/\s+/g, '') + "(){return " + pageObjs.FullName.replace(pageURL, "*") + "\;}");

   pageObjNamesIndex++;

 }

 

//Links

tf.writeLine("//");

tf.writeLine("//Links");

tf.writeLine("//");

pageObjs = page.FindAll("ObjectType", "*Link*", 9999);

pageObjs = (new VBArray(pageObjs)).toArray();



 for(var i = 0; i < pageObjs.length; i++)

 {

  //If page objects have the same name, add an index number for each subsequent entry

  var objNum = 1;

  var pageObjName, newPageObjName;   

  pageObjName = pageObjs.innerText;

  newPageObjName = pageObjName;

  pageObjNames = pageObjs.innerText;

  for(var z = 0; z < pageObjNames.length; z++)

  {

    if((z != i) && newPageObjName == pageObjNames)

      {

       objNum++;

       newPageObjName = pageObjName + objNum;

       pageObjNames = newPageObjName;

      }  

  }

  pageObjName = newPageObjName.toString().replace(/\W/g, '');

    //if object name is just a number, add object type to the name to make it unique

  if(!isNaN(pageObjName))

    pageObjName = "link" + pageObjName;

  

  

   tf.writeLine("function " + pageTitle + "_" + pageObjName.replace(/\s+/g, '') + "(){return " + pageObjs.FullName.replace(pageURL, "*") + "\;}");

   pageObjNamesIndex++;

 }

 

//Buttons

tf.writeLine("//");

tf.writeLine("//Buttons");

tf.writeLine("//");

pageObjs = page.FindAll("ObjectType", "*Button*", 9999);

pageObjs = (new VBArray(pageObjs)).toArray();



 for(var i = 0; i < pageObjs.length; i++)

 {

  //If page objects have the same name, add an index number for each subsequent entry

  var objNum = 1;

  var pageObjName, newPageObjName;   

  pageObjName = pageObjs.ObjectIdentifier;

  newPageObjName = pageObjName;

  pageObjNames[pageObjNamesIndex] = pageObjs.ObjectIdentifier;

  for(var z = 0; z < pageObjNames.length; z++)

  {

    if((z != i) && newPageObjName == pageObjNames)

      {

       objNum++;

       newPageObjName = pageObjName + objNum;

       pageObjNames = newPageObjName;

      }  

  }

  pageObjName = newPageObjName.toString().replace(/\W/g, '');

    //if object name is just a number, add object type to the name to make it unique

  if(!isNaN(pageObjName))

    pageObjName = "button" + pageObjName;

  

   tf.writeLine("function " + pageTitle + "_" + pageObjName.replace(/\s+/g, '') + "(){return " + pageObjs.FullName.replace(pageURL, "*").replace(pageObjs.Name, pageObjs.Name.replace(/\s+/g, "*")) + "\;}");

   pageObjNamesIndex++;

 }

 

//Tables

tf.writeLine("//");

tf.writeLine("//Tables");

tf.writeLine("//");

pageObjs = page.FindAll("ObjectType", "*Table*", 9999);

pageObjs = (new VBArray(pageObjs)).toArray();



 for(var i = 0; i < pageObjs.length; i++)

 {

  //If page objects have the same name, add an index number for each subsequent entry

  var objNum = 1;

  var pageObjName, newPageObjName;   

  pageObjName = pageObjs.ObjectIdentifier;

  newPageObjName = pageObjName;

  pageObjNames[pageObjNamesIndex] = pageObjs.ObjectIdentifier;

  for(var z = 0; z < pageObjNames.length; z++)

  {

    if((z != i) && newPageObjName == pageObjNames)

      {

       objNum++;

       newPageObjName = pageObjName + objNum;

       pageObjNames = newPageObjName;

      }  

  }

  pageObjName = newPageObjName.toString().replace(/\W/g, '');

    //if object name is just a number, add object type to the name to make it unique

  if(!isNaN(pageObjName))

    pageObjName = "table" + pageObjName;

    

   tf.writeLine("function " + pageTitle + "_" + pageObjName.replace(/\s+/g, '') + "(){return " + pageObjs.FullName.replace(pageURL, "*") + "\;}");

   pageObjNamesIndex++;

 }

  

 tf.close();



}

And what's the flipping code to make stuff appear in a Code box?  I tried <JScript> ... </JScript> and [JScript] ... [/JScript] to no avail...

use the word code in the square brackets... and then to indicate the script language do code=JScript.

This uses