On Element Appear not detecting element

Hello,

I need to scroll to an element on this site. I tried a solution read on the forum: Element Exist variable always returns true, even though element is not visible - #11 by aanandsanraj

I used a While with a Try Catch with “On Element Appear”, the loop runs indefinitely. Is like the element is never visible. I have tried using Timeout of 3 secs, also RepeatForever as False and it never stops scrolling, also tried WaitVisible and WaitActive.

I hope you can help me. All I need to do is to scroll to that table. I have also used the table as the selector.

Thank you for your help

@jorge.grajales
in general we do assume that the table / TH already exists even when it is more down and requires a scrolling. So the hover activity should work (maybe test it with option simulate hover).
(refered to your screenshot the selector was validating)

  • a hover could fail e.g. when the application is not already fully loaded
  • the bot requires some sync on the page (more then WaitForReady and more reliable)

for finding out what is needed, what to adress:

  • implement a proper working / validated hover activity
  • run in debug mode, stop with a breakpoint before the hover and wait till loading is fully done
  • continue the flow and check if hover is working

if it is still failing:

  • repeat and check hover with simulate hover
  • check element existence before hover and maybe react on this as an alternate

Thanks for you answer.

Hover is working, but hover doesn’t scroll down. I validated it by scrolling myself to the required location.

Do you have any other suggestion for scrolling down to that selector?

@jorge.grajales
hover should scroll the page.

could mean as you see the hover that no scrolling is needed. Maybe you want to get scrolled a diffeent part.

However down key, pgdown would be the alternate as you already had done. So let us fine out the more details on what is to scroll , till where and which strategie we could find to detect the successfully scrolled down result.

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You are absolutely right. All I needed to do to click on those boxes was just to activate simulate click option in Click Activity and that’s it.

Thank you very much for your help

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