Hi Kevin,
When interacting with elements in an application through the presentation layer, you need to approach it in the same way a user would, mimicking the operations they perform to ensure the target application behaves as expected. For example, if the element is a textbox, then the user would use the keyboard to input data. In Blue Prism, this is achieved through a Write Stage. If the element is a Radio Button, Checkbox or Dropdown List, then the user would interact with these using the mouse. In Blue Prism, we achieve this through the Navigate Stage.
Whilst the Navigate Stage provides mouse actions, if you have spied the Dropdown List control rather than the inner text element of the list, then the Navigate Stage will make available the 'Select Item' action. You can then provide the text of the item in the list to be selected as an Input.
The easiest way to ensue the Dropdown List control is spied rather than the text element, is to move you mouse over the down arrow of the control during the spy operation. You want the outer part of the list to be highlighted as demonstrated below:
Hope this helps.
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Carl Carter
Developer Program Manager
Blue Prism
Europe/London
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