Identifying Enabled Input filed on a GUI

[WikusKirsten]

Good morning,

We're currently reconfiguring one of our automations that utilized Internet explorer (IE) to Edge.

Previously on IE, using the HTML spy mode, there is a attribute available that indicates if the input filed is enabled or not. This allowed us to click on a hyperlink within our web app, to identify a specific erroneous row that had to be deleted by extracting the path of the enabled  row.



(When clicking on the go to error link, the GUI will enable the specific row that contains the error)


Moving to Edge, I cannot find a similar attribute to utilize. Using the UI spy mode, I see a "enabled" attribute , but I don't see a way of tying that back to the path attribute that is only obtainable when spying using the "browser" spy mode. The path attribute is required to identify the row.
Browser mode

UI Mode

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Wikus Kirsten
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[devneetmohanty07]

Hi @WikusKirsten,

For Browser mode, as far as I know Enabled attribute is not available as it was available with IE mode. But using XPaths, you still can have expressions like:

'//input[not(@disabled)]' or '//input[@disabled]'


Instead of input, you can supply the also supply any other tag name which is associated with the element that you are trying to read. If you want to let say read elements which are not disabled then the first example would work and if you want to read elements which are disabled then the second example would work.

Also, on more way to read element values can be to get the source HTML of your web page by using read stage on your entire web page and use 'Get HTML' action:


From here, you can try to parse the HTML using XML business object and get the desired node value as you want. If it is a collection then you need to loop through and add logic to determine the valid values from the parsed HTML string and insert the appropriate values in your collection.
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Regards,
Devneet Mohanty
Intelligent Process Automation Consultant | Sr. Consultant - Automation Developer,
WonderBotz India Pvt. Ltd.
Blue Prism Community MVP | Blue Prism 7x Certified Professional
Website: https://devneet.github.io/
Email: devneetmohanty07@gmail.com

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