For Each UI Element not doing anything - no selector after configuring

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I add the For Each UI Element, and add the elements and labels:

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Everything is highlighted on the screen correctly.

Then I click Save and…

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what are really trying to do?’

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Loop through the elements on the screen, the intended purpose of For Each UI Element.

But it’s not doing anything. After completing the wizard the Target etc does not populate.

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Hello @postwick

Are you using this inside a use Application/Browser activity??

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Yes or it would give a different error. Do you have anything helpful to add to the problem I’m having? After completing the wizard the activity’s properties are not configured.

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I did some testing and found that it works on another page (a YouTube playlist) but it doesn’t work on this Sharepoint page I’m trying to use.

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Did you find any solution regarding it?

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Just had to use the classic activity Find Children and then a For Each.

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I may have stumbled onto a solution for this. It seems that if you are using the Input Element property of the Use Application/Browser, then For Each UI Element doesn’t work properly when configuring it. You have to let the Use Application/Browser have selectors, leave Input Element blank, configure your For Each UI Element, then switch the Use Application/Browser back to the Input Element.

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Hello Paul,
I’m new to UiPath and I’m having the same issue while configuring the “For Each UIElement”.
As I’m a beginner, I can’t even find the “Find Children” block that everyone is talking about.

About the solution that you gave, my “Input Element” property in empty by default in the for each block but I don’t know what “You have to let the Use Application/Browser have selectors” means.

Could you explain it to me ?
Thank you

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I suggest starting with the free training on the UiPath Academy web page. It’ll teach you these things. You have to understand selectors, UI elements, activities, properties etc or you’ll be flying blind.

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I have a great background on Python dev + WEB dev so I know what are selectors, UiElement, Attribute, XPath and stuff like that. My concern is more if the for each issue is a bug or not from UiPath and how to solve it because I can’t see selectors from Use Application/Browser

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Find Children and For Each UI Element are two different things. Two different activities. Again, the free UiPath training would cover all these basics.