How do we select and loop through a dropdown menu and select only certain items?

[Jelrey (Mohamed Salutin)]

In my sample CRM app there is a dropdown menu with items like for example in the image below . I wanted to click and loop at each item except on the item 3 it should not Include the item on the list equal to item 3. How do we do that in UIpath ? Any idea ? Thank you.

[Udhay (Udhayanidhi Natarajan)]

Hi @Jelrey,

You can take a look at the below post.

#FeatureBlog - 19.10 - Using regular expression (Regex) in the selector attributes

It is now possible to use Regular Expressions in your selectors. Follow this guide to learn how! What’s new? We have added extra syntax to the Selector Editor to allow for advanced configuration of your selectors. Let’s begin As an example, I will be creating a selector that will be able to open a file whose name is dynamically changing. Let’s assume I am receiving daily list of bills via email which are saved as a text file named ‘bills mmddyy.txt’, e.g ‘’bills 101019’. Now, I want to writ…

In your case, you can use the regular expression Item [12], you can also change the regex as per the need.

Hope this helps.
Happy coding!

[ppr (Peter Preuss)]

@Jelrey
a well proofed approach is to use find children and compute later the found selectItems.

Let us know in case of you need more help on this