Error: Cannot find the UI element corresponding to this selector: Exception type: SelectorNotFoundException

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I m trying to capture the web page which contains the details of Directors and their Personal Assistants and write into CSV. My Sequence flow starts from 1>Input dialog to get the number of directors information’s is needed. For Ex: if the input is 10 then the details from the web page is 10 rows. under do while val is declared as 0 and val+1 is assigned to execute the no.of times to be executed. 2> open browser and 3> Build Data table (?where the 3 columns are (directors name, designation, personal assistants name ) defined. 4> Add data row task has added and properties are defined with 3 columns under ARRAYROW & DATATABLE has defined variable(System.DataTable). 5> Open browser has the intranet site where to extract the director and PA names. 6> Get Full text has the selection the of where the name and designation has to be extracted. 7> After the do while condition (val <Cint(number) 8> write csv has the file path and data table.

While I ran , it asked how many person and I gave 4 after that I got the error

Error: Cannot find the UI element corresponding to this selector: Exception type: SelectorNotFoundException
Please help

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Hi Mohana,

This error normally pops up if the robot is unable to locate the selector which was initially selected while developing the bot. Please do the following:

  1. Check if the selector is dynamic if yes make use of ? or * whichever suits your requirement.
  2. Make use of attach browser

If possible could you please share the xaml file for further debugging.

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Thanks Illango, Not sure how to make the selection as dynamic. Please help

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Hi

post your selector here… ppl can take a look and help

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@Mohana_BASKARAN_MN,

Eg. Please find below two selectors. Both selectors are looking similar except aaname part.
<html title='ACME System 1 - Dashboard' />
<webctrl aaname='Accounts' parentid='dashmenu' tag='BUTTON' />

We will use Wild cards (* and ?) or will pass variable names into selectors to make dynamic selectors.

<html title='ACME System 1 - Dashboard' />
<webctrl aaname='Work Items' parentid='dashmenu' tag='BUTTON' />

To make it to dynamic selector in below way.

<html title='ACME System 1 - Dashboard' />
<webctrl aaname='*' parentid='dashmenu' tag='BUTTON' />

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Thanks , I did the same but still getting the error.

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@Mohana_BASKARAN_MN,

At the time BOT running, Is the web page opened or not ?

Go to Target section and try to validate that selector and then highlight it and see.

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Thanks for your reply. this is my first code in uipath :), Yes at the time of running I m seeing the webpage is opened . The error is after that only.

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@Mohana_BASKARAN_MN,

Click on Attach to Live Element and indicate it again.

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Is it possible to access that site from my side?

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Fantastic, It works. The CSV has been generated successfully. But not any rows has been captured :frowning:…

unfortunately its the intranet site where you cant access …

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@Mohana_BASKARAN_MN,

Have you scrapped data properly from web page ?

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yes, I used get full text to get the 3 detaills(Name, designation, PAname) from my intranet site.

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@Mohana_BASKARAN_MN,

If it is structured data (Like Table format) , Then use data Scraping. It will be easy way to get all data.

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Thanks , lakshman. As I mentioned earlier this is my first hands-on at Uipath. I have mentioned my sequence of activities on my original post. Not sure where to change to data scraping. If you can guide me that will be great. Please help. thanks

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@Mohana_BASKARAN_MN,

Regarding Point No. 5,6
Please take screenshot of the data and show me once. Then I will check whether it is structured data or not.

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please see the screenshot to use data scraping for structure data (table data)

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@lakshman : Its sensitive cant share.
Just simple page it has left side picture of the person : name PA NAme: rosy
Designation: director Designation: Pa to

picture : person : name picture: Pa name : christy
Designation : assistant director Designation:Pa to assitant director

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something like this

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thanks @armamidwar
i wanted to know how to use those options to select multiple details /columns from the web page. Fro example : name, designaation, phone number etc. please help to see my existing sequence which I have mentioned on my original post and advice. thanks

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Hey , Use Internet explorer it works best there .
-click on Data scraping wizard - click next and highlight Phone number field click next

  • select the field next to phone number
    and you will see a table created from all the data in webpage