Issue with Dynamic Selectors in UiPath – Farmacias Galeno Website

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Hi @Karla_Cristina_Santos_Cam

Thanks for this critical info.
I tried to build the process with 5 products and found out that the “eye” button plays a key role on the “visibility” of the details.

Explanation:

  1. When I open the link on the browser for the first time, the details are not visible (Like Yesterday).
  2. I search for a medicine and click the “eye”, the details will be visible. But there is a catch.
  3. The Website will display the details of only 1 medicine at a time. Example: I clicked the visibility for “Paracetamol”. You can see below, the details are visible but if I search for “Montelukast” (using URL), it will have the details of “Paracetamol”. This means that “URL based search” is not possible.

This image shows the product page of "Paracetamol 500mg" on the Farmacias Galeno website, including its availability, inventory update time, price, and product details. (Captioned by AI)
This image shows the product page of "Paracetamol 500mg" on the Farmacias Galeno website, including its availability, inventory update time, price, and product details. (Captioned by AI)1852×971 111 KB

The image shows a webpage from Farmacias Galeno detailing the availability of Montelukast 4 mg chewable tablets at various locations, with an incorrect display of "PARACETAMOL 500MG X TABLETA FARMAVANZA" priced at Q 2.50 per unit. (Captioned by AI)
The image shows a webpage from Farmacias Galeno detailing the availability of Montelukast 4 mg chewable tablets at various locations, with an incorrect display of "PARACETAMOL 500MG X TABLETA FARMAVANZA" priced at Q 2.50 per unit. (Captioned by AI)1856×953 163 KB

  1. You Must search for the medicine on the search bar, click visibility, and then go to that URL/Tab. This must be done for each medicine.

  2. This will solve the Visibility issue.

As for the Selectors Issue:
I have found out that the following details are present on the page:

The image is a screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet containing a list of pharmaceutical products in column A, starting with "PARACETAMOL 500MG X TABLETA FARMAVANZA," with additional placeholder headers in columns B to H, and product URLs in column I. (Captioned by AI)
The image is a screenshot of an Excel spreadsheet containing a list of pharmaceutical products in column A, starting with "PARACETAMOL 500MG X TABLETA FARMAVANZA," with additional placeholder headers in columns B to H, and product URLs in column I. (Captioned by AI)1123×198 12.9 KB

Based on the type of medicine, the details will be visible. (Because medicines could be fluid, tablet, capsule, injection, etc and hence the details will also vary. For Example, some medicines strictly require Prescriptions, hence this detail will not be present on all medicines). I have selected 5 different medicines to demonstrate the same.

What Did I Do ?

  • Use “Check App State”, to check whether medicine Code (detailcode) is visible. I have done the following under the “Target appears” sequence.
  • Use “Get Attribute” activity for each of the data you wish to extract.
    – Set “Continue On Error” to True. (if the detail is not present for that medicine)
    – Set “Timeout” to 2.
    – Attribute being fetched “visibleInnerText”.
    – In the “Get Attribute” use Strict selectors Only. Use the “id” of the element (As shown in my excel column headers Or in my previous reply regarding inspect code)

The image shows a workflow in an automation software where it waits for an element with the detail code '1015909' to appear, retrieves its "visibleInnerText" attribute, and saves it to the "detailcode" field of the current row. (Captioned by AI)
The image shows a workflow in an automation software where it waits for an element with the detail code '1015909' to appear, retrieves its "visibleInnerText" attribute, and saves it to the "detailcode" field of the current row. (Captioned by AI)668×670 32.4 KB

The image shows a user interface for validating and highlighting an HTML element with specified attributes and selectors using the "microsoft edge" application. (Captioned by AI)
The image shows a user interface for validating and highlighting an HTML element with specified attributes and selectors using the "microsoft edge" application. (Captioned by AI)676×445 12.3 KB

Here, is the Sample Output after Running it:

The image shows a spreadsheet detailing various pharmaceutical products, including their codes, promotional offers, lab names, prescription requirements, product descriptions, units, and prices. (Captioned by AI)
The image shows a spreadsheet detailing various pharmaceutical products, including their codes, promotional offers, lab names, prescription requirements, product descriptions, units, and prices. (Captioned by AI)1259×181 9.13 KB

Note: Handle the new tabs being created when you click the visibility buttons (I have not looked into it, as it is out of scope for this solution)

I hope the selector issue will be resolved with this. If so, do mark it as solution. If not, let me know for further queries.

Cheers.

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