An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters.

[AnhPhamIT]

Here is my code
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability("app", "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe");
capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Windows");
capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "WindowsPC");
notePadPlusSession = new WindowsDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);
notePadPlusSession.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
String notePadTitle="new 0 - Notepad++";
String actualNotePadTitle = notePadPlusSession.getTitle();
System.out.println(actualNotePadTitle);
Assert.assertEquals(actualNotePadTitle, notePadTitle);
Thread.sleep(10000);
RemoteWebElement new_btn = notePadPlusSession.findElementByName("Find...");
new_btn.click();

Issue: Error shows
"An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters. (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)" even Name attribute is correct as inspect.exe tool

But it did work when using

• using findElementByXPath as below
  RemoteWebElement new_btn = notePadPlusSession.findElementByXPath("//Button[13]");
  => it is not timeout problem as I thought
• And findelementByName also worked fine when automating Calculator app
  => it is not a problem with findelementByName as well

My setup
Appium v1.14.0
WinAppDriver version 1.1
selenium-java-3.141.59

Attached appium log and image
Appium_log.txt

I am not sure what was wrong here so I am really appreciate if anybody can have a look on this.

Thanks,
Anh Pham

[mills-andrew]

The recording tool grabs the absolute xpath, maybe try that?
Below is an example of how it was able to find mine.

string xpath_LeftClickButtonFind_7_16 = "/Pane[@classname="#32769"][@name="Desktop"]/Window[@classname="Notepad++"][@name="new 1 - Notepad++"]/Pane[@classname="ReBarWindow32"]/ToolBar[@classname="ToolbarWindow32"]/Button[@name="Find..."]";
var winElem_LeftClickButtonFind_7_16 = desktopSession.FindElementByAbsoluteXPath(xpath_LeftClickButtonFind_7_16);

[AnhPhamIT]

Hi @KitoCoding

Thanks for your response. I updated my code with absolute path as your suggestion but the problem still occurs

	Thread.sleep(5000);
	String xpath_LeftClickButtonFind_7_16 = "/Pane[@ClassName=\"#32769\"][@name=\"Desktop 1\"]/Window[@ClassName=\"Notepad++\"][@name=\"new 0 - Notepad++\"]/Pane[@ClassName=\"ReBarWindow32\"]/ToolBar[@ClassName=\"ToolbarWindow32\"]/Button[@name=\"Find...\"]";
	RemoteWebElement winElem_LeftClickButtonFind_7_16 = notePadPlusSession.findElementByXPath(xpath_LeftClickButtonFind_7_16);
	winElem_LeftClickButtonFind_7_16.click();

It would be great if you can have a look at the code, logs and images in attachment.
NotePadIssue.zip

Thanks,
Anh Pham

[pradeipp]

Hi @AnhPhamIT Did you figure out why this issue was occuring? I'm facing a similar issue and can't figure out the cause.