Difficulty in spying Angular JS Combo Box

[Anonymous]

Hi, We have a web page containing an Angular JS Combo Box and we need to select one of the item from it. On selecting the specific item a web form is supposed to load below on the same page. We have tried using all the three spying modes (HTML,AA,Region Mode) and Global Send Keys/Events to achieve this;still we are unable to select that option and hence not able to access that form as it doesn't gets loaded. Please suggest a methodology to work efficiently with Angular JS Combo Box. Regards, Surabhi

[Denis__Dennehy]

It is very rare for Global Send Key/Events to not work - because you are effectively doing the actions a manual user would. Ensure you are replicating manual user keystrokes exactly (with the required activate application, click in the element to focus it, etc) and ensure you have the required tiny waits between each of these actions. Also worth noting that there is an 'Invoke Javascript' action available in the navigate stage. IF there is someone technical in your team that knows how to read HTML source code and if the underlying combo box invokes a javascript when selected this may be an option for you. There is a section on how that works in the Browser Automation guide in the learning area of this portal.