From the course: Robotic Process Automation: Tech Primer
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Selector challenges - UiPath Tutorial
From the course: Robotic Process Automation: Tech Primer
Selector challenges
- [Instructor] In the previous lecture, we interacted with page one dot HTML, which was a best case scenario because all of the elements on the page had ID attributes. It left us on page two and none of these elements have any kind of attributes on them. We could verify by looking at page two within Visual Studio. On this page, all we have are HTML tags with no other attributes at all. So let's see what kind of trouble that gets us when we try to use UiPath to automate the page. Before we add the page two activities, I just want to finish up this step on page one where we got text from the first paragraph. Any time you use get text any time in the properties pane, you have an output section where you can click in here and right click and create a new variable to capture the text that was found in that control. I'll talk about variables in the next section, but for now, I'm just going to name this variable page one para one and hit return and after I get the text I'm going to click up…
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