CharTop missing after refresh

[former_member793492]

hi Team,

Just want your expertise regarding the issue i'm facing, currently i am using CharTop as an identifier of a Hierarchy in SAP, after sometime and after a process some orders an i need to go back to the main screen, Chartop is now not available, how can this happen?

Set obj_Gridview = sapSession.FindById("wnd[0]/usr/")

Set gridKey = obj_Gridview.Children

For Each objkey In gridKey

'Return errors after completing some task/ seems like element change after completing some task
If objkey.CharTop >= 3 Then

[Sandra_Rossi]

SAP GUI Scripting is reinstantiating all the GUI elements after each user function like pressing function keys, button click, menu selection, scrolling, etc. (except high-level non-GUI elements like session, etc.) Repeat FindById to get the last valid instance of each GUI element you need.

[former_member793492]

Hi Sandra, Thank you for your input, FindByID is actually within the loop, the issue i'm having is that when i reinitiated the FindByID after completing some task, CharTop is now missing even when it is in the same tcode/session as before,

[Sandra_Rossi]

hmmm which other loop? I see that obj_Gridview is set before For Each. If the screen is refreshed in that loop, obj_Gridview becomes obsolete.

[former_member793492]

Apologies, Sandra. did not post all the script, basically the for loop is within another loop, i used dictionary scripting to check if CharTop which i used as an identifier has already been processed, if it's already available in the dictionary it will loop to the next heirarchy, please see below script, i removed the processing part of the script is that it will not be hard to the eyes 😄

Process_Again:
    bl_bar = False
    
    collappsedRows.RemoveAll
    icpRow = 0
    
    Set obj_Gridview = sapSession.FindById("wnd[0]/usr/")
    Set gridKey = obj_Gridview.Children
    
    For Each objkey In gridKey
        'Debug.Print objkey.CharTop
        
        If objkey.CharTop >= 3 Then
            
            iRow = objkey.CharTop
            If dicallrows.Exists(iRow) Then
                GoTo NEXT_ObjKey
            Else
                dicallrows.Add iRow, 1
            End If
         
            sapSession.FindById("wnd[0]/usr/lbl[5," & iRow & "]").SetFocus
            sapSession.FindById("wnd[0]/usr/lbl[5," & iRow & "]").caretPosition = 0
            sapSession.FindById("wnd[0]").SendVKey 2
            
'Processing code enclosed in this comment

if process = complete then

goto process_again

end if

'End of processing code

            
            For l_cntrCol = 3 To l_cntrWatch
                While sapSession.FindById("wnd[0]/usr/lbl[5," & l_cntrCol & "]").DisplayedText = 5
                    sapSession.FindById("wnd[0]/usr/lbl[5," & l_cntrCol & "]").SetFocus
                    sapSession.FindById("wnd[0]/usr/lbl[5," & l_cntrCol & "]").caretPosition = 0
                    sapSession.FindById("wnd[0]").SendVKey 2
                Wend
            Next
          
            GoTo Process_Again
            
        End If
NEXT_ObjKey:
    Next

[former_member793492]

this is before processing some data, charTop is available, but after processing, charTop is not available anymore even after reinstating the FindByID

[former_member793492 · Accepted solution]

Just an update regarding this issue, I've figured that every time I completed a process and going back to the previous screen adds another child from the object which does not have the CharTop count, the rest of the child has a CharTop count, what I did is I just to ignore the first child and proceed to the other child.