Get Text activity is returning different data from the website

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Hi guys!

I’m trying to get the registration company number of a firm from a website. However, the Get Text activity is returning different elements from the webpage.
For ex:

  1. I go to NewRegister > Enter 311584 in the “Enter a Name or Reference Number text field” > Choose Firm as the option and Enter > Click on the first firm that shows up > Capture the Registered Company Number
    In this case, I correctly get the Registered Company Number.

  2. I go to NewRegister > Enter 311584 in the “Enter a Name or Reference Number text field” > Choose Firm as the option and Enter > Click on the first firm that shows up > Capture the Registered Company Number
    In this case, I correctly get the Registered Company Number.

  3. I go to NewRegister > Enter 312026 in the “Enter a Name or Reference Number text field” > Choose Firm as the option and Enter > Click on the first firm that shows up > Capture the Registered Company Number
    In this case, I am getting www.ibsbroking.com which is below the website element.

I’m using the below selector -
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I have tried a lot of different selectors but it is not working.

How do I get the the correct Registered Company Number in both the cases?

Thanks,
Manohar

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Try below selector

I created this selector for IE on this page

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Hi @HS_Manohar

Try to use css-selector attriibute in UI Explorer

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Regards,
Nived N
Happy Automation

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Hi @ghazanfar,

Thank you for taking your time to answer my question. I tried using the above I got an error and it didn’t work. However, there are a couple of things that I want to highlight -

  1. We are trying to get the Registered company number and not the firm reference number.
  2. I have an excel sheet with more than 500 reference numbers. So it has to be dynamic.

Thanks,
Manohar

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Hi @NIVED_NAMBIAR ,

I tried using css-selector attribute in UI Explorer. However, it is still fetching different elements.

Thanks,
Manohar

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never use css in the selector it changes every time… Let me check again

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@HS_Manohar Which part is dynamic I mean we are first entering register number.
Enter 312026 in the “Enter a Name or Reference Number text field” > Choose Firm as the option and Enter > Click on the first firm that shows up > Capture the Registered Company Number

which part is dynamic?

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Hi @HS_Manohar

Try this selector

<html app='chrome.exe' htmlwindowname='_self' title='*' />
<webctrl css-selector='a[class=&quot;text-link text-bold text-link_default text-color_weak hide-href-print cShPo_LEX_Reg_Hyperlink&quot;]' />

After getting the text u had to use replace method to replace a particular string to get the number

See the workflow for more information

Check this workflow
Main.xaml (10.6 KB)

See whether it works fine for u

if yes, mark the answer as solution

Regards,
Nived N
Happy Automation

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Hi @NIVED_NAMBIAR,

I’m using Internet Explorer to carry out this activity. I did copy paste the above selector but the validate button is throwing an error i.e. its red.

Kind regards,
Manohar HS

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Hi @HS_Manohar

Please see the below workflow and let me know if it works for you.

TRegistered company.xaml (5.2 KB)
ested on IE

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Hi @ghazanfa

The initial entering different reference numbers… that is I have given only 2 reference numbers as an example but I have more than 500.

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you can make it dynamic as per your requirements. But it will highlight the correct Registered Company Number.

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Hi @ghazanfar

I don’t see any element selected in Get Text activity -
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Hi @NIVED_NAMBIAR

I can’t see anything in the Get Text activity

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Thanks,
Manohar

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Just indicate a registered company number element and then keep the top node (root node)

And paste the <webctrl css-selector…

part below

Regards

Nived N :robot:

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Well u can not see it

Did u run in chrome and see the result ?

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Hi @NIVED_NAMBIAR

I can’t run this in Chrome since I can’t install Chrome.exe extension for UiPath in my company laptop. I have to use only Internet Explorer.

Thanks,
Manohar

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Can u paste the complete selector u got by indicating from internet explorer?

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open below page

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Run my code and in the output pane write line output will show it will show registered company number

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Here you go -

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I have added your code to it as well.