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Unable to extract Text from a Combo Box for a Desktop App

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Posted on by Indu

Hi All,

 

I am using a Desktop App which has a ComboBox field. I am able to select an option from the dropdown. However when I try to extract the selected value for this Combobox I am getting the output as "System.Data.DataRowView".

 

I have tried using the below available actions.

1. Get details of a UI Element in window with Attribute name set to 'owntext'

2. Extract data from Window

But both returning output as 'System.Data.DataRowView'

 

Any help around this will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!!

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  • MichaelAnnis Profile Picture
    MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

    Have you tried OCR.  Use the "Extract text with OCR" and tell it specifically where to look at using the Search mode.

     

    Good luck.

  • Riyaz_riz11 Profile Picture
    Riyaz_riz11 4,214 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Indu 

     

    You can even try with extract text from web page.

     

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