Click on a list of web elements in one action

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Hi! im new in the Power automate,

I have this problem:

I have previously saved some web elements,

video1
video2
video3
video4

I should perform some actions, but they are the same as for all 4 elements, only the element changes.

How can I have a single action written in a loop for all 4?

The action simply wants to click on 4 videos in a youtube channel to listen some songs

Attached what I mean, thanks to those who will help me 🙂

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ryule 929 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Instead of clicking, could you use the "Go to web page" action....

So you'd put your 4 URLs in a list, loop through the list, putting %CurrentItem% as the URL variable...

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VgsBrazil 26 on at

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Hi ryule, I know I can put url in a list, but I need to click on the video1 element, video2 element, etc.. in the home page.. I have add the the screenshot with the element selected one of 4. Can you help me?

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ryule 929 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Yeah, I couldn't think of a way to do this by performing a physical click, so that was my only workaround idea. Sorry!

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AS-06081019-0 1,738 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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@VgsBrazil Could you please try using SendKeys {Tab}{Return}.

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VgsBrazil 26 on at

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Maybe I explained myself wrong, how can I assign a variable to the web element "video1" "video2" etc?

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ryule 929 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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You can put the web element in just a basic variable, and then reference it in the Selector Builder (ensure you toggle). Perhaps you could give that a try?

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VgsBrazil 26 on at

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I don't know how I can do it, can you explain? thanks

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AS-06081019-0 1,738 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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@VgsBrazil I believe you are looking for Dynamic Selector.

To do that please follow the steps below:
Search for the element that needs to be edited in the UI elements pane, right click on the element and go to edit selectors.
Navigate to the selector builder which can be used to easily customize the selector and click on "custom" toggle button.

Please refer the below articles on handling dynamic changing webpages and elements:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/troubleshoot/winautomation/process-development-ti...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/troubleshoot/winautomation/process-development-ti...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/troubleshoot/winautomation/process-development-ti...
Note: These are Winautomation articles, however, the same concept works in PAD as well.
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@VgsBrazil Refer this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbjkdHDN9fw
Hope it helps!

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Henrik_M 2,021 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Follow these steps:

Modify your UI element selector so there aren't any unique attributes at the end of the chain.

Experiment with adding the Ordinal filter to the video element and ensure that ... video:eq(0) selects the first video, ... video:eq(1) selects the second, and so on.

Add a loop action in your code.

Use the %LoopIndex% variable in your ordinal selector, instead of the "test integers" from step 2.

Remember to switch your Visual editor / Custom selector toggle to the left.

Test.

Note: you will probably want to instead Get details the href attributes from either an anchor element on the video or the video element itself, and then open each of those URLs in sequence, in order to do whatever it is you want.

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VgsBrazil 26 on at

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Hi Henrik, maybe surely that's what I'm looking for, unfortunately technically I can't figure out how to make it. Do you have an example file you can see?

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