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Posted on by VijaySingh

Hi All,

I have a web page on which I had created a process using PAD.

I have used "Wait for web page content" action to wait for web page to load.
Once web page is load it will give screen where either element is load or error screen is load.
Error when element is not created due to erro
Error - Element is not exist
Screen when element is loaded.
Element Exist

I want to check and set a variable if element is not loaded and error is displayed. So want to check if that is possible?

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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I have done something like this before:

Loop 1 to 9999 increment of 1
If element exists %CorrectPage%
Exit Loop to continue process
EndIF
If element exists %ErrorPage%
Stop Flow with Error
EndIF
Wait 15 #or however long you want it to wait in between each time it checks for either page
End #Loop

This will check for both possibilities every 15 seconds (or whatever you set the "WAIT" to). If it finds either page, it will take the appropriate next actions.

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VJR 7,635 on at

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Hi @VijaySingh

- Add the UI element for the text inside the below

- Read the text from the above UI element. (This will happen after the page loads because you have given Wait for web page content)

- After the page finishes loading if the text of the above UI element contains "Error occurred" then that means the element does not exist.

Also you can make use of the "On error" error handling to detect if any of the lines of code threw an error while reading or writing to it, indicating that the element was not found.

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Hey @VijaySingh , and also how about making use of below action where you can check after the web page has loaded whether the element exists (use "contains element" or "doesn't contains element" depending on your requirements).

Here is the official documentation link to this action.

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