Find elements by Id or Name
Hi There, I have tried using Object Identification attribute as Id and Name to record a test scenario. However, when I run the same Script, the Test Complete is unable to find Drop down field by ...
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Based on on your screenshot, It is nothing to do with the Combobox since your parent object is not available.
So, Ultimately you won't be able to get access to the Comobobox.
First fix the parent object issue. To do that try following steps:
1. Try highlight the object( which is colored red in the Log pane) from Name Mapping or Object Browser.
2. If you are not able to highlight object, try find more stable properties to fix the Parent object identification issue.
There are several parts to that error message that need to be addressed. shankar_r touched on it a bit. They run down like this:
1) Searching for a mapped object took too much time - This message usually comes up in situations where the Extended Find feature in NameMapping is being used. This is NOT a bad feature... it does make NameMapping "neater". However, if you have a child object, like a Table, that is marked with Extended Find, and it is, in actuality a LOT of levels deep in the REAL web page (Extended Find "telescopes" these kinds of things), the process could take a LOOONG time to resolve the object. The solution is to actually do some mapping of more objects within the overall tree to reduce that virtual gap between parent and child. Read https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/running/handling-errors/extended-find-timeout-warning.html
2) Ambiguous recognition - This usually means that the mapping criteria for an object results in finding more than one matching object. Usually, this happens if the mapping criteria is not specific enough to uniquely identify an object. Read https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/running/handling-errors/object-not-found/ambiguous-recognition-message.html
3) Object does not exist - As shankar_r mentioned, the parent object in your Alias tree could not be found. This COULD be due to the two errors above it. Resolve those two and try again. If the parent object cannot be found, then you need to work on figuring out better mapping criteria.
So... as shankar_r, the problem is not in the inability to recognize the combobox, it is due to some NameMapping problems that need to be resolved first.
