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Posted on by Joel CustomerEffective

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Anybody have a good guide to best practices for error handling with PAD, specifically things like validating that correct values have been entered in a field?

for example, I watched this https://youtu.be/WWlyyirAqXM

i understand how this type of error handling works.

I’m talking. About errors that don't stop the flow--for example, say I am populating a field but for some.reason the value I'm entering is not entered correctly (maybe the form.was slow.loadong one time and only half of.the field value gets entered.

What is the best way to catch this kind of thing? A condition.to check field.value?

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Joel CustomerEffective 3,224 on at

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Here's how I'm currently doing it--it works, just was curious if there is a better way. In this example, I'm populating a field that is very important. I'm then doing a loop condition to check if the value of that element does not equal the desired value, then going back and doing it again. Is that the best approach?

While it works, there seems to be some delay while the flow checks the value, so it usually loops a couple of times re-entering the same value before it proceeds

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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Instead of Loop, I would use IF, but you have hit the nail on the head for what you want.

I would also set the text you want entered and validated as a variable, so as you copy this sequence to another field, you only have to update that text in one place. This will essentially seem like more work:
1) set a variable (must change text and the new variable)
2) change variable in Send Keys
3) change variable in Loop Condition
versus just changing the text twice each time; however, changing something small like a number on a variable 3 times has much less room for human error than changing an entire text sequence twice.

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Joel CustomerEffective 3,224 on at

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Thanks Michael. I have moved the text to a variable. good tip on the IF vs Loop

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