Selenium WebDriver code for adding a person in PeopleSoft

Question

I am new to Selenium WebDriver. I am trying to work on a script to Add a Person in PeopleSoft HCM Application. Basically, On the Personal Data Main page, you first start by adding a Effective Date in to a Date Field and click on Add Name button that opens a Sub Page on the Main page. The Sub Page has First Name , Middle Name , Last Name etc fields. You enter this fields and click OK to go back to Main Page and carry on other data entries.

When I recorded through Selenium IDE, it clicks on the Add Name Button and the sub page opens and the IDE can enter text to the name fields. However when I am using the Web Driver Code, it is not able to push the data to the sub page.

How can I get hold of the sub page through the code. I tried the driver.switchTo().window command , and this is not working.

Any Help on this would be a great help.

Below is my code for the same ,I tried many permutations and combinations but was failed in the end

 driver.findElement(By.id("DERIVED_NM_LVL2_UPDATE_NAME_BTN$0")).click();
 // String wHandle = driver.getWindowHandle();
 // driver.switchTo().window(wHandle);
 // driver.switchTo().frame(driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@id='ptModContent_6']/iframe")));

new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("DERIVED_CORE_NM_NAME_PREFIX"))).selectByVisibleText("Dr");
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='DERIVED_CORE_NM_FIRST_NAME']']")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='DERIVED_CORE_NM_FIRST_NAME']']")).sendKeys("vcxvx");
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='DERIVED_CORE_NM_MIDDLE_NAME']")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='DERIVED_CORE_NM_MIDDLE_NAME']")).sendKeys("vcxv");
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='DERIVED_CORE_NM_LAST_NAME']")).clear();
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[@id='DERIVED_CORE_NM_LAST_NAME']")).sendKeys("vcx");
driver.findElement(By.id("#ICSave")).click();

Answer 1

If you can List down the error you are facing, it would be good help and we can guide you better. Moreover, its better not to use xpath locators. I am pretty sure every field would have an 'id' or 'name' and using that would be a better approach.

The dialogue box that opens up when you hit the 'Add Name' button might have an iframe and you should first switch to the iframe and then you can push information into the fields. Following is the code to switch to iframe.

driver.switchTo().frame("iframe-name");

Answer 2

You may have already found a solution.

I faced the same issue when was doing automation for peoplesoft application.

Since the other solutions provided here did not work for me, I had to find a solution myself

Solution: If you have already used a driver.switchto.frame command then before moving to next iframe switch back to default content using driver.switchto.defaultcontent().