Hello everyone,
I've got a problem with identifying attributes of elements on the website. I captured elements through the spy mode of Application Modeller. I have a problem with identifying attributes of Birthday and E-mail address. I want to create a loop, where after clicking a generate button it will change. And what names of attributes do you prefer to pick? In the picture below you can see the elements which I want to capture and identify. Of course, I want to get values from birthday and e-mail address and get into my collection, but I try to set the best attributes to identify them. And I put in pictures with attributes in my BluePrism version which I can set. What Attributes should I pick?
Hi @jacobitwaco,
It looks like those elements are the tricky ones where dont have much atributtes to play with, you could just use the attribute Web Path/xPath and it will do, I like to have the attributes at the minimun possible, normally I use the default WebPath, WebClass and Match Index but in some platforms the HTML structure is dynamic and the default path is not going to work on the next query that you do.
What if that platform that you are automating is the dynamic type and cant use the default WebPath. then you have to think to other ways to recognize those elements that are prone to changes, in these scenarios you could use xpath expressions (There's a course on BP university that you could see on https://blue-prism.docebosaas.com/learn/course/16924/blue-prismr-spying-using-css-selector-and-xpath )
I did some test with xpath that you could try too. Just type these expressions in the value input of the attribute "Web Path/XPath" (unchecked the rest of attr)
For birthday;
//dt[contains(text(), 'Birthday')]/following-sibling::dd
For email:
//dt[contains(text(), 'Email Address')]/following-sibling::dd
The result on email can be replaced with a simple Replace function
If you right click on the page and select Inspect it will show the structure and you will see that the birthday is a single tag dd inside a dt tag the same applies for Email Address.
The expression looks for dd tag that is inside a dt tag containing text Birthday/Email Address
Hope it helps
