How to click on element within iframe? - vba

Question

I’m trying to do web automation on IE using Selenium library.
Elements I want to click have iframes.
However, I’m getting the “element not found” error.
I tried many different approaches.
Sub activeBexIE_Final()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
Dim Perm_bot As New Selenium.IEDriver
Perm_bot.Get "https://nalcodirect.nalco.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/pcd%213aportal_content%212fcom.sap.pct%212fplatform_add_ons%212fcom.sap.ip.bi%212fiViews%212fcom.sap.ip.bi.bex?BOOKMARK=0O867HQNBT13YLB5Q21HLAL2H", timeout:=1000, Raise:=False
Perm_bot.Wait 5000
' website opening successfully
Perm_bot.FindElementById("logonuidfield").SendKeys "XYZ#ABC.com"
Perm_bot.SendKeys Perm_bot.Keys.Tab
Perm_bot.SendKeys "ABCD"
Perm_bot.SendKeys Perm_bot.Keys.Enter
' the error is element not found at .click line
Perm_bot.switchToFrame Perm_bot.FindElementByName("iframe_Roundtrip_9223372036563636042")
Perm_bot.FindElementById("BUTTON_OPEN_SAVE_btn1_acButton").Click
Perm_bot.Wait 5000
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
perm_dot.Quit
Set perm_dot = Nothing
End Sub
HTML:
Iframe Screenshot:
Element Screenshot:

Answer 1

It might because the script runs faster than the page load. You could add a wait before switch to the iframe. Besides, there might be other elements with name iframe_Roundtrip_9223372036563636042 so you could use FindElementById when searching the iframe.
I made a simple sample with code below and it can work well:
Public Sub seleniumtutorial()
Dim driver As New Selenium.IEDriver
driver.Get "https://zhouyuzy.github.io/create-test-page/iframe.html "
driver.Wait 5000
driver.SwitchToFrame driver.FindElementById("iframe_Roundtrip_9223372036563636042")
driver.FindElementById("BUTTON_OPEN_SAVE_btn1_acButton").Click
driver.Wait 5000
End Sub
The result is like below: