Unable to Locate element in salesforce using watir

Question

Problem 1: Input:

browser.span(:id => 'ProdSelectionPage_Fav:mainform:pbmain:pSecId:j_id90:txtQuoteDesc').when_present.exist?

Error:

C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/wait.rb:29:in `until': timed out after 60 seconds (Watir::Wait::TimeoutError)
from C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/element_extensions.rb:18:in `method_missing'
from C:/WebAutomation/Tests/sandbox/attach.rb:52:in `<main>'

Problem 2: Input:

browser.frame.text_field(:id, /ProdSelectionPage_Fav:mainform:pbmain:pSecId:j_id90:txtQuoteDesc/).when_present.set'gautam raj'

Error:

C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/wait.rb:29:in `until': timed out after 60 seconds (Watir::Wait::TimeoutError)
from C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/element_extensions.rb:18:in `method_missing'
from C:/WebAutomation/Tests/sandbox/attach.rb:56:in `<main>'

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Without 'when_present' and used 'sleep 30' before

Input:

browser.frame.text_field(:id, /ProdSelectionPage_Fav:mainform:pbmain:pSecId:j_id90:txtQuoteDesc/).set'gautam raj'

// tried 'name' instead of 'id' for input

Error:

C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/element.rb:338:in `assert_exists': Unable to locate element, using {:tag_name=>["frame", "iframe"]} (Watir::Exception::UnknownFrameException)
from C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/frame.rb:21:in `document'
from C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/frame.rb:52:in `__ole_inner_elements'
from C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/locator.rb:204:in `each_element'
from C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/locator.rb:229:in `each'
from C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/locator.rb:217:in `locate'
from C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/input_elements.rb:20:in `locate'
from C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/element.rb:335:in `assert_exists'
from C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/element.rb:484:in `perform_action'
from C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0/gems/watir-classic-4.2.0/lib/watir-classic/input_elements.rb:252:in `set'
from C:/WebAutomation/Tests/sandbox/attach.rb:56:in `<main>'

html code:

<input name="ProdSelectionPage_Fav:mainform:pbmain:pSecId:j_id90:txtQuoteDesc" id="ProdSelectionPage_Fav:mainform:pbmain:pSecId:j_id90:txtQuoteDesc" type="text" size="20" maxlength="35">

Answer 1

The problem here is the element you are trying to location never visible to watir.

So with when_present, it will fail with Watir::Wait::TimeoutError error. If you want to click/set the element not visible, it will fail with Watir::Exception::UnknownFrameException error.

Answer 2

The problem here was, when I move to next page, system is throwing error. So, I used below command when I want to move to next page

browser = Watir::Browser.attach(:url, //) 

Now, it is working fine