Get Text w/ Custom ID

[JRColburn (Jake Richards)]

Hello,

I was curious if you are able to use a UiPath CustomID when inspecting source code from webpage to use the ‘Get Text’ activity.

[HsDev (Heather Something)]

You are wanting to use the CustomID as an identifier for an element that you are trying to grab text from off of a webpage? Is that what you are trying to do? I’m guessing the selector is the same for other elements on the page so you’re having a hard time getting that particular text? You can use the “Get attribute” activity, and say

     If(attribute = TheAttributeIWant)
       { 
        Get text
       }

You could also use anchor activity to find an element nearby. Trying to help, not sure if this is inline with what you are trying to do.

[HsDev (Heather Something)]

I have issues with the changing sometimes with my Java application. I always open up UiExplorer, and then open the property explorer, to find specific properties that might be unique or usable for my purpose.

[JRColburn (Jake Richards)]

Yes, the web page is dynamic in the sense every page has a different amount of line numbers.

For example, this web page in particular has 12 “line numbers” and the next web page which is identical in what I want to grab instead has the text I want to get on the 17th line number.

I would show an example, but for reasons I am unable.

*edit:

Going through specific element editors I can’t find anything that will change in comparison to the other web pages or anything unique in a sense that works the same for each web page.

I will attempt an anchor and I will let you know.

[JRColburn (Jake Richards)]

I figured it out finally, Anchor Base activity ended up being my final solution. It wasn’t the cleanest, but it gets the job done. Thank you very much!