ExtractData / NExtractData ignores selected Attribute from select option

[ppr (Peter)]

We can modify manually the data extraction and also extract e.g. image src, input value … attributes. In case of configuring the extraction to grab the selected item from a select element the first option from the select will extract instead.

Last Tested with Activities:

• ExtractData
• NExtractData

UiPath.UiAutomationActivities - 21.12.0-preview

Replication:
URL: DataTables example - Form inputs
Configure as described here:

• [HowTo] Data Scraping - Advanced Configuration - Text Field, Image Source, Url, CSS Classname, Hover text

<extract>
	<row exact="1">
		<webctrl tag="tr"/>
	</row>
	<column exact="1" name="Column1" attr="text">
		<webctrl tag="tr"/>
		<webctrl tag="td" idx="1"/>
	</column>
	<column exact="1" name="Column2" attr="value">
		<webctrl tag="tr"/>
		<webctrl tag="td" idx="2"/>
		<webctrl tag="input" idx="1"/>
	</column>
	<column exact="1" name="Column3" attr="value">
		<webctrl tag="tr"/>
		<webctrl tag="td" idx="3"/>
		<webctrl tag="input" idx="1"/>
	</column>
	<column exact="1" name="Column4" attr="value">
		<webctrl tag="tr"/>
		<webctrl tag="td" idx="4"/>
		<webctrl tag="select" />
		<webctrl tag="option" selected="selected" idx="1" />
	</column>
</extract>

And also:

Table Extraction Wizard

Hi, I am having an issue with the Table Extraction wizard. The web site I need to access requires logon, but I’ve found a public site which allows me to demonstrate the issue I’m seeing. If you follow these steps, you’ll see the issue: Browse to DataTables example - Form inputs. This includes a table as shown in the first screenshot below, where Name is a read-only label, but Age and Position are input textboxes, and Office is a selectable dropdown list Open the UiPath Table Extraction wizard…

[loginerror (Maciej Kuzmicz)]

Thanks for the report @ppr

I’ve also checked on the latest 22.2 and it doesn’t work there either. I’ll push it to our issue tracker for the UI Automation team to investigate.