Sharepoint modal window handling through Selenium webdriver

Question

I am automating the sharepoint application using Selenium webdriver.

On clicking one link to add the new item to the list, it opens the window/frame (not sure of), sort of modal pop up window. while executing the script, it is giving error of unable to locate element. In the below image, when i used to find all the window handles using driver.getwindowhandles(), it just gives 1 window as the parent window. and not the child window. The same code is able to run through selenium IDE but not thru JUnit. please help how can i handle this thing.

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='zz9_V4QuickLaunchMenu']/div/ul/li[4]/a/span/span")).click();
driver.findElement(By.id("idHomePageNewLink")).click();
Thread.sleep(5000);

//gives error at this point which is the id of the text field on child popup window.

driver.findElement(By.id("ctl00_m_g_99918f84_a256_44b4_819e_982688a9f15c_ctl00_ctl05_ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_ctl00_UrlFieldUrl")).clear();        
driver.findElement(By.id("ctl00_m_g_99918f84_a256_44b4_819e_982688a9f15c_ctl00_ctl05_ctl00_ctl00_ctl00_ctl04_ctl00_ctl00_UrlFieldUrl")).sendKeys("http://efgh");
System.out.println("Done!!!!");

sleep is not a correct way to ensure that the pop up has appeared. Do you see the modal popup when u see the execution? It may be that that the popup has not appeared in the 5 seconds and hence the error. — niharika_neo
It shows the popup window as in the window we need to enter the values. It waits there and gives the error. — user1844541

Amol Dakhane Amol Dakhane · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-22T11:41:07

I have had a similar problem, which I have solved using the SwitchTo().Frame method provided by the Selenium webdriver. Use the following code to set focus to the SharePoint modal file upload dialog:

driver.SwitchTo().Frame(driver.FindElement(By.ClassName("ms-dlgFrame")));

Sharepoint modal window handling through Selenium webdriver

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