Dropdown list issue

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so i have to select an item from a list of dropdown item on a website but this list doesn’t have a dropdown arrow for me to select and indicate on screen

this item is within a dropdown list of item but im unable to indicate on screen as i can only view the list of items if i hover over the main category.

is there anyway to select the item i want?

what can i do to solve this? please help! i’ve been stuck for so long

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Hi @meenyi ,

In a parallel activity,

Place a Hover activity to simulate hovering and make use of an On element appears activity to select the item once it is visible.

Hover activity

On element appears

Hope this helps you out.

Happy automating.!

Thanks,
Gautham.

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hello! may i know for on element appear what do i indicate on screen for and what do i add in the do activity , for indicate do i indicate the item i wanna select from the dropdown list? thankyouu!

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i’ve managed to get what i want thankyou!! however there’s an error message :frowning: please advise what to do to troubleshoot this! as attached below

it states “On Element Appear ‘DIV’: Activity timeout exceeded

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Hi @meenyi ,

Yes on element appear activity’s target should be the item you want to select.

Open UiExplorer, use F2 to get wait time of 3 seconds, meanwhile hover and capture the element.

Make the selector as much dynamic as possible.then use it in on element appear and click activities. The error has happened as it wasn’t able to find the item or element properly.

You can also make use of On image appear and Click image activity to achieve this if the method being configured is not working as expected.

Please try and let me know.

Thanks,
Gautham.

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@meenyi

  1. First did you try using select item activity?
  2. If 1 is not an option or if it is not working then you need to create a logic to click or hover on the field and then use a loop to scroll and check for the value you need and click on it when the value appears…basically a do while with element exists/check app state to check for the value you need…and on found side click on the value you need and on else side use a scroll activity…condition in dowhile should be true thats it …and for aafety use a max iteration number in the dowhile properties

Cheers

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thank you so much!

i’m really new to rpa so may i just kindly ask how do i make the selector as dynamic as possible😭 im almost there!

cheers

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@meenyi ,

Please share the selector in text form along with a snap from UiExplorer.