https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Digital-Exchange/Can-someone-please-help-me-to-spy-a-dropdown-on-a-Web-Browser/m-p/51611#M460 Hi - there's no single way to do it, as it depends on the application type and the way the drop down works. It can often be as easy as using Select Item in a Navigate stage. Alternatively, you may need to do Get All Items so that you can loop through a collection until you find what you're looking for, then update the drop down. Or cruder still, set up a key-down/read/stop-or-continue loop to chug down the list. That can be painful to get right and slow to execute, but if you're unlucky it may be a last resort.<BR /><BR />If it's a web app, you may find that you can spy the item element and click it, even when it's not selected and invisible.<BR /><BR />------------------------------<BR />John Carter<BR />Professional Services<BR />Blue Prism<BR />------------------------------<BR /> Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:52:00 GMT John__Carter 2019-09-05T17:52:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Digital-Exchange/Can-someone-please-help-me-to-spy-a-dropdown-on-a-Web-Browser/m-p/51610#M459 <P>I am a newbie RPA Developer, and the RPA Software that my company uses is BluePrism. Now, I have this project(actually my first project ever) that needs to interact with an in-house Application, and it has a lot of dropdown entries, where you can only select or click the options, not allowed to type anything. I got stalled on spying that dropdown and thinking how do I select the correct option inside that dropdown.</P> <P>I have tried everything that our trainer have taught us, but I still cant have it working. Please help! </P> <P>Thanks in advance <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":slightly_smiling_face:">🙂</span></P> --------------------------------------------------<BR /> <B>Disclaimer:</B> This content was auto-posted from Stackoverflow. The original Stackoverflow question is here <A href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57803145/can-someone-please-help-me-to-spy-a-dropdown-on-a-web-browser-using-blueprism">Stackoverflow Post</A>, posted by <A href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/11532891/rdee-cruz">Rdee Cruz</A>. Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:01:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Digital-Exchange/Can-someone-please-help-me-to-spy-a-dropdown-on-a-Web-Browser/m-p/51610#M459 Digital_WorkerB 2019-09-05T11:01:00Z https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Digital-Exchange/Can-someone-please-help-me-to-spy-a-dropdown-on-a-Web-Browser/m-p/51611#M460 Hi - there's no single way to do it, as it depends on the application type and the way the drop down works. It can often be as easy as using Select Item in a Navigate stage. Alternatively, you may need to do Get All Items so that you can loop through a collection until you find what you're looking for, then update the drop down. Or cruder still, set up a key-down/read/stop-or-continue loop to chug down the list. That can be painful to get right and slow to execute, but if you're unlucky it may be a last resort.<BR /><BR />If it's a web app, you may find that you can spy the item element and click it, even when it's not selected and invisible.<BR /><BR />------------------------------<BR />John Carter<BR />Professional Services<BR />Blue Prism<BR />------------------------------<BR /> Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:52:00 GMT https://community.blueprism.com/t5/Digital-Exchange/Can-someone-please-help-me-to-spy-a-dropdown-on-a-Web-Browser/m-p/51611#M460 John__Carter 2019-09-05T17:52:00Z