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Hi,

I'm experiencing an issue with the usage of "If window" action.

My flow consists in looping through a material list and performing some actions in SAP.

At some point, I need to check whether a window called "Warning" exists or not, using the "If window" action.

The window does not have to appear for every material number.

When I start my loop and that window appears, it is properly identified by the "If window" action. That is good.

The problem occurs when the next material number is being processed, after the one that has triggered the "Warning" window.

The "If window" condition is always filled, even if the window does not exist. I do not know why this happens...

Does someone have an idea why the condition for the existing window is met, even if the window does not exist ?

Thank you in advance,

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mathiaskjeldsen 224 on at

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Hey

Once the first warning window pops up, do you do anything to it? Do you close it before continuing the loop?

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Riyaz_riz11 4,214 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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Hi,

As you mention first it is working after 2nd iteration if not exist if it is going inside condition then you need to work on selector and make a dynamic selector.

You can also try with if windows contains action and pass the text.

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Hi CU06081340-0 I hope you are doing well.

Based on my experience, SAP is quite tricky from time to time, and the issue that you are facing could be due to different scenarios, especially these 2 below:

Timing Issues: The window might take some time to appear, so the "If window" action might NOT be catching it in that moment.

Residual Window Handle: Sometimes, window handles or processes might remain in memory, causing the "If window" action to detect them.

To resolve this, my recommendation is that you need to Add a Delay in the process to wait for the Warning window to appear.

Prior to the action that you are using right now, you can utilize a “Wait for Window” Action, this is more dynamic than utilize a “Wait” Action set up for X number of seconds.

Also, you can use the wildcard * before the keyword Warning, this well helps your code to look for any window that contains the Warning word.

Finally, you can have a Fallback process in place in case that these steps above does not work.

Please see the sniped Code below:

WAIT (UIAutomation.WaitForWindow.ToOpenByTitleClass Title: $'''*Warning''' Class: $'''''' FocusWindow: True) FOR 5
ON ERROR REPEAT 3 TIMES WAIT 2
ON ERROR

END
IF (UIAutomation.IfWindow.IsOpenByTitleClass Title: $'''*Warning''' Class: $'''''') THEN
    # HERE GOES A "PRESSES A WINDOW BUTTON" Action
    Display.ShowMessageDialog.ShowMessage Title: $'''YOU ROCK!''' Icon: Display.Icon.None Buttons: Display.Buttons.OK DefaultButton: Display.DefaultButton.Button1 IsTopMost: True ButtonPressed=> ButtonPressed
END
**REGION FALLBACK PROCESS FOR WARNING WINDOW
IF (OCR.IfTextOnScreen.TextOnScreenExistsWithWindowsOcr TextToFind: $'''Warning''' IsRegex: False WindowsOcrLanguage: OCR.WindowsOcrLanguage.English SearchForTextOn: OCR.SearchTarget.EntireScreen ImageWidthMultiplier: 1 ImageHeightMultiplier: 1 TextLocationX=> LocationOfTextFoundX TextLocationY=> LocationOfTextFoundY) THEN
    # HERE GOES A "PRESSES A WINDOW BUTTON" Action
    Display.ShowMessageDialog.ShowMessage Title: $'''YOU ROCK!''' Icon: Display.Icon.None Buttons: Display.Buttons.OK DefaultButton: Display.DefaultButton.Button1 IsTopMost: True ButtonPressed=> ButtonPressed
END
**ENDREGION

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