Cannot perform click text on webpage

[aqiff]

I am using this activity, Click Activity, below is the text from the website

Filename

When, I highlight it, it does indicate at the correct place. However I make it dynamic so that it will click based on the variable I obtained from get text.

Variable = Filename

The error of click activity as below

However, it gives me error. So, I try to HTML Encode it but still gives me error.

[lakshman (Ganta lakshman)]

@aqiff

You didn’t pass the variable into selector properly. It should be something like this.

     aaname = '"+Str_failLink+"'

[aqiff]

@lakshman

'"+Str_failLink+"'

It still gives me error

[jack.chan]

can you try this aaname='{{Str_failLink}}'

if that doesnt work, create a new str varaible str_failLinkTmp
then before click activity, assign str_failLink.Replace("'","'") to str_failLinkTmp
then change selector to this aaname='{{str_failLinkTmp}}'

[lakshman (Ganta lakshman)]

@aqiff

Can you please print the this variable Str_failLink using Message Box activity before that Click activity and check whether it’s printing correct value or not.

[aqiff]

Below is the output. It is the same

[aqiff]

Sure, I can test this logic. However, I believe there are many other characters that are not recognizable by Click Activity. How do I make this dynamic ?

[jack.chan]

its already dynamic since Str_failLink is a variable
for the other characters that are not recognizable you can do this, this should handle all the characters i think

1. str_failLink.Replace("'","'") to str_failLinkTmp ( you already have this)
2. str_failLinkTmp.Replace("&","&") to str_failLinkTmp

This is the full list from Escaping XML Data , but (<,>, “”) are not allowed in file names so i think handling ’ and & are fine

Char	Escape String
<	&lt;
>	&gt;
"	&quot;
’	&apos;
&	&amp;

[aqiff]

This is what I need ! a list of escaping xml data but i did not know what to search. Thank you so much! it is working !