Unable to click object error message

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I am using Katalon with Ellucian Banner and navigating to a form. When the katalon test gets to the initial page, and I need the process to click X to close that page, I get the following error.

Test Cases/SOADEST FAILED because (of) (Stack trace: com.kms.katalon.core.exception.StepFailedException: Unable to click on object ‘Object Repository/Page_Application Navigator/Page_Application Navigator/i_Compact_ba ba-close’ (Root cause: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Element is not clickable at point (21, 9). Other element would receive the click:

(Session info: chrome=70.0.3538.77)

I have tried Xpath as well as attributes.

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It’s basically telling you that, at the point the click would be issued, something else would receive the click.

Do the elements move on the page? Has something hidden the html i element?

A screen shot of the page would help.

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Below is the page. If I use the recorded test steps\screen capture tool, the error will be that the xpath is null, if I capture the close as a single object and call that object from my (recorded) test case, then the error is that the item is not clickable. I have also tried using the xpath provided by the xpath tool in chrome.

soadestclose.jpg

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Below is the error I receive if I use the object ba-close recorded as a unit test run.

‘Page_Application Navigator/i_Compact_ba ba-close’ has parent object(s)

11-16-2018 03:29:41 PM - [INFO] - Switching to iframe: ‘Page_Application Navigator/iframe_Keyboard Shortcuts_bann’

11-16-2018 03:29:41 PM - [INFO] - Checking timeout

11-16-2018 03:29:42 PM - [FAILED] - Unable to click on object ‘Page_Application Navigator/i_Compact_ba ba-close’ (Root cause: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot find elements when the XPath expression is null.)

11-16-2018 03:29:42 PM - [END] - End action : click

11-16-2018 03:29:42 PM - [FAILED] - Verification FAILED because (of) (Stack trace: com.kms.katalon.core.exception.StepFailedException: Unable to click on object ‘Page_Application Navigator/i_Compact_ba ba-close’ (Root cause: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot find elements when the XPath expression is null.)

at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.internal.KeywordMain.stepFailed(KeywordMain.groovy:36)

at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.internal.WebUIKeywordMain.stepFailed(WebUIKeywordMain.groovy:65)

at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.internal.WebUIKeywordMain.runKeyword(WebUIKeywordMain.groovy:27)

at com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.builtin.ClickKeyword.click(ClickKeyword.groovy:86)

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Thanks for the extra info, Pablo. It’s obviously hard to discern the problem working remote so I tried to bring the site up in a browser but it’s not loading, it just times out.

In the mean time, I’m guessing that the iframe is making a mess of the target Test Object. If I could get to the site (or if you can most a bunch of the HTML surrounding the close button) then maybe we could get a little further.

@Andrej Podhajský, @4280-kazurayam

We could also do with an xpath guru taking a look (I’m certainly not an xpath guy!) B)

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Pablo,

(Root cause: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot find elements when the XPath expression is null.)

I believe that this message is due to a small bug in Katalon Studio since version 5.7.0.

Please have a look at the following discussion: