Click() on HtmlAncor timeout

[Tina Christiansen]

Hi

Im new to Test Studio and have run into a problem.

Im in code activating a click on a HtmlAncor object. The page is wery slow to respond and sometims i get an timeout exception on the click. If I create a Click which is not a codestep or in a codestep its posible to set the WaitOnElementsTimeout but how do I do that in the code? I have tried the HtmlAncor object.Wait.Timeout but i still gets a timeout.

Tina

[Stoich]

Hello Tina,
   you don't need to resort to code in order to set the timeout for an element. Check out this KB article:
http://www.telerik.com/automated-testing-tools/support/kb/setting-ample-timeouts-in-your-test.aspx

Let me know if you require any additional assistance.

All the best,
Stoich
the Telerik team

[Tina Christiansen]

Hi

The click is part of a codet step, i have not resorted to code in order to set the timeout for an element. There is no WaitOnElementsTimeout in the properties on a coded step.

I have a coded step which runs trough a GridView and tests a link button in each row, but the page after click on the link button is too slow so i get a timeout.

[Stoich]

Hello Tina,
    I apologize - I hadn't read your original post closely enough.

There are a couple of ways to implement WaitForExists style timeouts for your elements in a coded step.
Let's say you have an the following elment: HtmlAnchor a;
One way to wait for it so to do this:

a.Wait.ForExists();

This will wait for 10 seconds. It's possible to pass it the desired timeout as a parameter in miliseconds but currently there's a minor bug which causes this statements to always wait for 10 second. So for instance:

a.Wait.ForExists(30000);

will still wait only 10 seconds. We have this logged so we will fix it in the near future.

Here's a better way to define a Wait in code:

ActiveBrowser.WaitForElement(new HtmlFindExpression("href=http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp"), 30000, false);

Here new HtmlFindExpression("href=http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp") creates a new Find Expression for the desired element. If you don't know about Find Expression check out this tutorial:
http://www.telerik.com/automated-testing-tools/support/documentation/user-guide/telerik-testing-framework/intermediate-topics/element-identification/find-expressions.aspx
30000 is the timeout in milliseconds and it will be respected. The third parameter is a boolean value - just leave it at false.

I hope this helps.

Greetings,
Stoich
the Telerik team

[Tina Christiansen]

Hi

Thanks the ActiveBrowser.WaitForElement helped.