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Find text on browser without OCR (Custom UI Selector)

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Hey All, 

 

Was wondering if anyone could help. I am trying to do a browser automation flow where I go to a directory, search for the last name of a person, and then find the full name and click on the full name and do extract from web page. 

 

Let's say I want John Smith's info. I go to the website, click on the text box, and search "Smith". On the same webpage, almost instantly, Smith, John comes up and I want to click on it and his info pops up. 

 

When I do a flow like this 

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I get the message box saying yes, which means the text exists. However, when i try to do this 

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The flow seems to fail on the OCR Step. I can't figure it out for the life of me. 

John Smith is an example. But this exercise has French names as well with characters like Ã‰. I tried installing french language on settings and changing Windows OCR Language to French with no luck. 

 

EDIT: 

I tried an alternate solution by creating a custom UI Selector

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Here, FName is a dynamic value for Full name. In the above scenario FName would return John Smith. When I try to use the function "Click on UI Element" it gives me the error "Click Failed (error while clicking)" 

 

I also checked the html using developer tools and the name is within <a> tags

 

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

    Try using Send keys

  • Imrans23 Profile Picture
    22 on at

    Sorry, could you please clarify? How would that move my mouse to the name "Smith, John" and click? I am trying to do step 8 in the second screenshot. If you could kindly take a look at my original post as I experimented with another solution but couldn't get that to work/

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

    Instead of mouse move and click.

    I am suggesting use, Sendkeys Tab to go to that label and used Sendkeys return. Hope it helps.

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