FInd and click text

[Carlton_Morrissey]

Hello I have looked at all the Uipath Forums to try to figure this out and I am lost.

Here is what I am trying to do I have variable: Trim_2 and I want to find the text of Trim_2 within a certain part of the page and click it. It changes position all the time and I can’t figure it out I believe it has to be click activity but what options do I put in?

[Carlton_Morrissey]

Here is an example Variable: Trim_2 is “Lariat”

Here is the options I have for click activity

[sangeethaneelavannan1 (Sangeetha Neelavannan)]

@Carlton_Morrissey please include strict selector as target method.

[Carlton_Morrissey]

and uncheck native text? I apologize I am a newbie.

in strict selector do I just choose variable? So it looks like this?

[sangeethaneelavannan1 (Sangeetha Neelavannan)]

Yes,uncheck native text and use variable in strict selector.click indicate element on screen option in click activity and choose selector.Select a particular element on a browser

[jack.chan]

@Carlton_Morrissey can you show me what the fuzzy selector looks like?

if there is text under the “InnerText” field, you can try replace that with Trim_2 by typing {{Trim_2}} into the “InnerText” field

then it will look for the element that contains “Trim2”

For example in the above scenario i captured the “User options” button, and the fuzzy selector automatically set “InnerText” field to equal “User Options”
if i change that field to trim_2 variable and set trim_2 to equal “Vendors”, it will click on "Vendors: button instead

[Gokul001 (Gokul Balaji)]

Hi @Carlton_Morrissey

You can try with anchor base activity

In the LHS you can use find text position activity

RHS use click activity

Regards
Gokul

[Carlton_Morrissey]

Jack this feels like it is on the correct track the only things is that when it has the text it works correct when I use set variable and set Trim_2 to the same text it can not find it the only thing that changed was the fuzzy selector any ideas?

[Carlton_Morrissey]

Hey Gokul001 this sounds like it would work great but I cant find the Anchor Base Activity. To be honest I am a complete noob so I appreciate your patience, any ideas?

[Carlton_Morrissey]

I tried looking this up, no results

[Gokul001 (Gokul Balaji)]

Try to upgrade the UiPath.system.activity to the latest version 22.10.3 and check it @Carlton_Morrissey

Check out this document

https://docs.uipath.com/activities/docs/anchor-base

[Carlton_Morrissey]

I figured it out. its not in studioX its considered classic so its only in studio

[Gokul001 (Gokul Balaji)]

Hi @Carlton_Morrissey

In the activities panel you cal find the filter option click that

You can find show classic option click that and check it.

[Carlton_Morrissey]

this is working great. One last question How to I limit so that it is only searching part of the page because there is 9 instants where trim_2 pops up but is there a way to tell UIpath to focus on just one DIV?

[jack.chan]

can you try delete this part? (id=‘…’)

[Gokul001 (Gokul Balaji)]

Great @Carlton_Morrissey

Kindly close this topic by mark as solved. It will help for others too.

Regards
Gokul

[Carlton_Morrissey]

this worked thank you

[jack.chan]

no problem, good luck