How to handle UiElement.FindFirst() not found without try catch

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#1

Hi,

I have UiElement collection, then I am looping it and trying to findFirst element with specific selector, but if it is not found iam getting error… TryCatch is taking too long to fire (30s+)…
item as UiElement, variable1 as IvariableResolver and its empty…

my clause:
item.FindFirst(FindScope.FIND_CHILDREN,new Selector("<webctrl tag=‘p’ class=‘mb1’ innerHtml=‘fa fa-file-text-o’ />"),variable1).Get(“innerText”).ToString

By the way what is IvariableResolver without it uipath did not let me start process as it was mandatory…

Thanks.

#2

What about checking e.g. with a Count statement (can be done in LINQ as well) if the item is available and then fetch it or go into error handling

#3

Thanks for suggestion, but could you be more specific? I tried switcing to UiElement.FindAll().count(), but still it results in Selector Not found error…

#4

Please give us some screenshots and some details on your flow, task to achieve.

I have UiElement collection, then I am looping it and trying to findFirst element with specific selector

This line is a little bit unclear. So we can give you a better help

#5

I think i found work around.

I used built in FindChildren activity to pass UiElement collected from previous Collection as it has ContinueOnError feature and then I am getting desired result, do not know if that is correct way to go but it works…

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#6

Second screenshot due to limit

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#7

Change the Timeout to a lower number:

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#8

May Element exists can enhance your implementation. Was there any reason that you was using this activity?

#9

This statement was for actual Try Catch activity block there is no timeout timer…

Now FindChildren set ContinueOnError to true is instant even with default timeout value.

Thanks again

#10

There should be a ContinueOnError attribute. If you set that to True it may continue on, but the child element would be NULL. And based on this, you can take a decision on what the process must do next.