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Select multiple choices in web page

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Im working on a flow that basically will search objects by an ID, the problem is that some of this objects IDs have more than 1 object. How can I select everything that appears on the web page? I want the RPA to select the "Checkbox" if only 1 object appears and if 10 objects appear to also select those 10.

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Gidi 601 on at

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Hi carcmena99,
it woud be helpful to inspect the web page to find out the selectors.
Usually I would start with creating an UI selector fo the first checkbox and with extract data from web page to get the changing parts of the selector.

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You will not be able to click on 10 different elements using a single action (unless there is a button to select everything). You will likely need to build a loop that iterates through each item and selects it. For this to work, you will need to create a selector that is dynamic and usually includes some sort of a row index or something like that.

I suggest reading this article on modifying selectors: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/build-custom-selectors#use-variables-in-a-custom-selector as well as watching this tutorial for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PcyBa22Jj8&ab_channel=Thomas%22Shaky%22Petersen

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carcmena99 75 on at

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Hey thanks for the reply, I really need to fix this quickly can I do something like this:

Step 1: EXTRACT website info
Step 2: If WEBDATA.ROWCOUNT = 2,3 OR 4
Select 2, 3 or 4

Can I do this?

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Not really. Maybe it’s possible with a quick and dirty solution using your approach with send keys to mark the checkboxes within a loop, but for a stable approach you should find the difference between the checkbox selectors first to find the way how to define and use the selector with variable values.

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Do you have a tutorial or an explanation video, to help me with this problem?

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