Element to be clicked in the page disappearing so fast that I cant even do Indicate Element and capture the selector

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Hi Team

In our web application after downloading a report one small intermediate pop up comes and gets disappeared very quickly. So i cant come from uipath studio and indicate the element so quickly because by that time it gets disappeared.

So what to do in such scenarios ? How to capture the selector ?

I dont want to use Delay activity as it is a static wait.

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Hi @kkpatel

You can check if the file is downloaded or not by using an if condition File.Exists(“yourfilepath”) instead of waiting for the downloaded icon to disappear…

Thanks

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Actually I have to wait for the icon to disappear because in the same page i have multiple reports to be downloaded one by one. Unless the icon is disappeared i cant download the next report.

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Hello kkpatel

That pop up indicates the complete download? So you can search if the download exist in your download directory and then start the next report download.

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Hey,

I’m having a similar issue at the basic level. I need to indicate a click on a selector that comes and goes within a split second. Now I would try to use a trigger and click on element disappear but for some reason that doesn’t matter

That might be because I have the click set to and area of the browser that changes once the notification pops up ( the selector that I’m trying to click)… Any suggestions?

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Hello, since I saw you were trying to help, I just thought I’d reply to your comment that way you can see mine and hopefully help me on my end.

Thank you in advance!

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If something appears and disappears that quickly, why bother checking for it?

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Because the rest of what I’m trying to accomplish resides on me being able to click on that.

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You’re supposed to click something that appears and disappears in a split second? How would a human even do that?

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Good question… Unfortunately, I’m not making it up. So any advice would be appreciated.

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You’ll have to time it right, I guess. You know with the selector windows open, you can click F2 to pause selection?

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Yeah, I was hoping there was a way around it but that’s the plan for now.

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I was thinking though, maybe have a “click this area” instead of the actual selector would work once the original page were to change.

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@Ken_Villard Why don’t you try recording this step and prior to this one

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Hello @Ken_Villard

Are you trying to identify the selector for that popup? As you mentioned the popup will get closed within seconds, here its better to use the App/Web recorder.

You can directly record it as how you are doing it normally. Then you can use that recording in your main flow.

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