Hi, Is it possible to provide value to Find Element activity from excel. Data I am using may have multiple results and I need that only data I have put in excel should be clicked

[hsharsh92 (Harshit Srivastava)]

Getting error “Selector is Invalid”

[AshwinS2 (Ashwin S)]

Hi @hsharsh92
are you using doing excel application scope and tried to search the element by using ctrl+f

and give type into for as empty selector and try it

Thanks
Ashwin S

[hsharsh92 (Harshit Srivastava)]

Hi actually i have a excel sheet which have some headers and i need to use that headers in find element so that it find the element on the webpage and type into the relative element container… but when i pass the string in find element it shows the error

[AshwinS2 (Ashwin S)]

@hsharsh92

i have a excel sheet which have some headers and i need to use that headers in find element so that it find the element on the webpage and type into the relative element container… but when i pass the string in find element it shows the error

Hi @hsharsh92

try to change the selector for find element in UiExplorer

Thanks
Ashwin S

[hsharsh92 (Harshit Srivastava)]

but the selector is a string variable

[AshwinS2 (Ashwin S)]

Hi @hsharsh92

What value have you given the string variable

Thanks
Ashwin S

[hsharsh92 (Harshit Srivastava)]

row(Header 1).to String

[AshwinS2 (Ashwin S)]

Hi @hsharsh92

give the wnd title and other property and give the string variable

Thanks
Ashwin S

[hsharsh92 (Harshit Srivastava)]

can you please give me the format

[Palaniyappan (Forum Leader)]

Yah if we have the selector and if we want to pass the variable to the selector kindly have a view in this

How to use variables in selectors in Studio (dynamic selectors) without string manipulation!

This tutorial will teach you how to easily use variables in your selectors. In other words, we will be making dynamic selectors without the use of the old method of concatenating strings. How cool is that! For the purpose of this tutorial, I will make 1 click in the Notepad app. Feel free to also reference our documentation here. Let’s begin! 1. First, we will indicate the element we want to click on. In this case, it will be File menu in Notepad: [image] This results in the…

Or this

How to use a variable in: <webctrl aaname=VARIABLE />

Hi all, To pass your variables or arguments to selector, DO NOT CLICK the “…” box to open the Selector Editor window. The Selector Editor window does not recognize your variables or arguments. You need to edit the selector directly to the selector field in the property pane (Which is a Expression Editor). Try to Type the the step as follows: " SpaceBar “+” your variable or argument ( the drop down box will appear showing that the program is now recognize your V and A) PS. After you edit sel…

Or if we don’t have the selector and only the text then pass the text as input to FIND TEXT POSITION activity and get the output with a uielement variable
Pass that variable as input to element property in the FIND ELEMENT ACTIVITY

Cheers @hsharsh92

[hsharsh92 (Harshit Srivastava)]

Thanks Bro!!

This helps me a lot

“Or if we don’t have the selector and only the text then pass the text as input to FIND TEXT POSITION activity and get the output with a uielement variable
Pass that variable as input to element property in the FIND ELEMENT ACTIVITY”

[Palaniyappan (Forum Leader)]

Cheers @hsharsh92