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Posted on by Jacklin_Jency 31

Hi,

In my use case I have to read the value from excel ,and select the row in the table with the value read from the excel . I tried with 2 value VISA13 and VISA14 ,got the below value in the UI Selector page

div[Id="pt1:_FOr1:1:_FONSr2:0:_FOTsr1:0:AP1:AT1:_ATp:t2::db"] > table > tbody > tr > td > div > table > tbody > tr > td:eq(12)
div[Id="pt1:_FOr1:1:_FONSr2:0:_FOTsr1:0:AP1:AT1:_ATp:t2::db"] > table > tbody > tr > td > div > table > tbody > tr > td:eq(18)

 so the value in td:eq() dynamically changes 

can anyone help me how to dynamically pass the value in UI element ?

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below is the inspect of the row VISA14

 

<tr _afrrk="3" class="p_AFSelected p_AFFocused xem"><td nowrap="" _afrrh="true" class="xwl"><span style="white-space: nowrap"></span>&nbsp;</td><td style="padding:0px"><div style="position:relative;overflow:hidden;width:100%"><table summary="" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 1402px;" cellspacing="0" _afrit="1"><colgroup span="6"><col style="width:131px;"><col style="width:111px;"><col style="width:131px;"><col style="width:101px;"><col style="width: 767px;"><col style="width:161px;"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="width:120px;" nowrap="" class="xen"><span class="x2hg" style="white-space: nowrap"><a id="pt1:_FOr1:1:_FONSr2:0:_FOTsr1:0:AP1:AT1:_ATp:t2:3:cl22" class="xmv" onclick="this.focus();return false;" href="#">VISA14</a></span></td><td style="width:100px;" nowrap="" class="xen" title="Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority"><span class="x2hg" style="white-space: nowrap">Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority</span></td><td style="width:120px;" nowrap="" class="xen"><span class="x2hg" style="white-space: nowrap">01-Jul-2023</span></td><td style="width:90px;" nowrap="" class="xen"><span class="x2hg" style="white-space: nowrap">1</span></td><td style="width: 756px;" nowrap="" class="xen"><span class="x2hg" style="white-space: nowrap">VISA</span></td><td style="width:150px;" nowrap="" class="xen"><span class="x2hg" style="white-space: nowrap"><a id="pt1:_FOr1:1:_FONSr2:0:_FOTsr1:0:AP1:AT1:_ATp:t2:3:cl1" class="xmv" onclick="this.focus();return false;" href="#">TESTV (0 more)</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr>

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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
    Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

    Why don't you use the Excel actions for this? There is an action called Read from Excel worksheet that does exactly that.

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  • Jacklin_Jency Profile Picture
    Jacklin_Jency 31 on at

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    Hi Agnius,

    I have attached my flow above 

    I read from excel and store the value in the variable, so inside the loop it has to select the value of variable that in passed from excel which is dynamic.
    Suppose out of 5 rows I have to deal with only 2 rows where the value of that 2 rows (ie:VISA14,VISA13) is pulled from the excel and click on VISA14 & VISA13 only

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    Okay, I misread that then.

    I would suggest using Extract data from web page to get the entire table. Then use Find or replace in data table to find the value you are looking for (the one from Excel). This will give you a variable called %DataTableMatches% that will contain the indexes for where the values you are looking for are in the data table from the web page.

    Then use those indexes as variables in your selector. See here for reference on how to add variables to selectors:  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/build-custom-selectors#use-variables-in-a-custom-selector

    Also watch this video on building dynamic web selectors: https://youtu.be/2PcyBa22Jj8

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    Jacklin_Jency 31 on at

    thanks Agnius
    will check with it 

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    Jacklin_Jency 31 on at

    Hi Agnius,

    I work with the website where I have to scrap the data from the inner scrolling HTML table. But while extracting the data it scraps only the 1st set of data (data available before scrolling the page). How to capture the entire data in the inner html table or window ?? any guidance? It has got 100s of data on it.

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    It likely means that your data is also divided into some sort of sections, and not only rows. The section likely includes a certain number of items in it. If the Base CSS selector in your Extract data from web page action has the ordinal value ( :eq() ) of the specific section in it, it will only extract the items from that section. 

     

    Try making a copy of your Extract data from web page and use it to extract a few items that come right after those that are currently extracted successfully. Then compare the Base CSS selector of this copied action against the one from the original action. See if there are any values in the Base CSS selector that are different. Then try to make it so that it works for both sections. When you do that, it should work for all items.

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