Find Element By XPATH is not working on MS Word using AppiumForMac

[AryaKrishnan08]

Hi, I am getting "No such element" error with findElementByXpath for Word app.

I have used absolute xpath generated by AFM:
driver.findElementByXPath("/AXApplication[@AXTitle='Word']/AXWindow[@AXTitle='Open new and recent files' and @AXIdentifier='DocStage' and @AXSubrole='AXStandardWindow']/AXButton[@AXTitle='Create' and @AXIdentifier='_NS:73']").click();

xpath is working fine for other apps like calculator and Notes app.
This issue is only with Word and other O365 apps.

Mac OS : Mojave
AFM Beta 3

Can anyone help me on this. Thanks in advance.

Appium logs:
[Appium4Mac] [STDERR] ************* findAllUsingAbsoluteAXPath: /AXApplication[@AXTitle='Word']/AXWindow[@AXTitle='Open new and recent files' and @AXIdentifier='DocStage' and @AXSubrole='AXStandardWindow']/AXButton[@AXTitle='Create' and @AXIdentifier='_NS:73']
[Appium4Mac] [STDERR] 2020-05-04 18:12:26.661 AppiumForMac[7620:212337] axPathComponents:(
[Appium4Mac] [STDERR] "AXApplication[@AXTitle='Word']",
[Appium4Mac] [STDERR] "AXWindow[@AXTitle='Open new and recent files' and @AXIdentifier='DocStage' and @AXSubrole='AXStandardWindow']",
[Appium4Mac] [STDERR] "AXButton[@AXTitle='Create' and @AXIdentifier='_NS:73']"
[Appium4Mac] [STDERR] )
[Appium4Mac] [STDERR] 2020-05-04 18:12:26.676 AppiumForMac[7620:212337]
[Appium4Mac] [STDERR] ************* findAllUsingAbsoluteAXPath matchedNodes:(
[Appium4Mac] [STDERR] )
[Appium4Mac] [STDERR]
[Appium4Mac] [STDERR]
[WD Proxy] Got response with status 200: {"status":7,"sessionId":"PLvdlCm2","value":{"message":"An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters."}}
[WD Proxy] The response has an unknown format
[W3C (27549f78)] Encountered internal error running command: ProxyRequestError: Could not proxy command to remote server. Original error: The request to /wd/hub/session/27549f78-1868-4a49-8a41-b98f2044630d/element has failed
[W3C (27549f78)] at JWProxy.proxy (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-base-driver/lib/jsonwp-proxy/proxy.js:213:13)
[MJSONWP] Matched JSONWP error code 7 to NoSuchElementError
[HTTP] <-- POST /wd/hub/session/27549f78-1868-4a49-8a41-b98f2044630d/element 404 5010 ms - 771

[miksch123]

Have you tried it using a webdriver wait?
I ran into a similar issue and adding a wbdriverwaiter to wait for the element to appear actually helped there. (And yes there might be the possibility that the automation performance will decrease, but stability will go up)
If the element still can't be found maybe try building an XPath using the UI Inspector App.

Hopefully this was of any help.

[jknguyen621]

@miksch123 can you please give working code example of your wait? I am also experience same issue.

[miksch123]

new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20)).Until(X => X.FindElement(By.XPath("element/you/found/using/afm")));

Here you go. This is a c# example as I am using that mainly.

[jknguyen621]

Thank you. I will have to try this out. Joseph

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On Fri, Nov 6, 2020, 11:49 PM miksch123 ***@***.***> wrote: new WebDriverWait(driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(20)).Until(X => X.FindElement(By.XPath("element/you/found/using/afm"))); Here you go. This is a c# example as I am using that mainly. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#86 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHU7LHLY2GPFRNM7XYICYJLSOT3XZANCNFSM4MYXSL4A> .

[toruncem]

did you get this working Joseph?

[miksch123]

Probably as there is no response that it didn't work.