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How to select each item in a list with the same element values

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Posted on 1 Dec 2023 18:37:37 by Community Power Pla...

I have a flow which extracts a list of elements from a web page then clicks each item in the list. The html element doesn't contain links, just the element which needs to be clicked. I extract the element text and title as a datatable, and then loop through each of the items, using a custom selector.

Here is the flow.

This is how the data table looks after extraction

This is my custom selector

The issue is that sometimes, as is the case in the screenshot above, all the items in the datatable have the same values even though they link to different pages with different values. But the selector will just always select the first item in the list because they have the same title which is what my custom selector relies on. I can't find anything about the elements HTML that differentiates them.

It seems like maybe I can do something with the ordinal attribute to differentiate each item, but I'm not sure how to go about that.

Any help is much appreciated!

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on 02 Dec 2023 at 06:50:48

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Re: How to select each item in a list with the same element values

The Ordinal attribute is essentially the index of the element in the structure. The first item will have an ordinal value of 0 (because it is usually 0-based), the second will be 1, etc. You pass that to the selector as span:eq(%Index%). Can try that by generating an index before your loop and then incrementing it inside the loop as you click through those elements.

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UshaJyothiKasibhotla 63 Moderator on 02 Dec 2023 at 03:51:55

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Re: How to select each item in a list with the same element values

have you tried with the click activity and give the input as job[0]
by its position.

Hope this helps
Usha