Possible to get the result from wildcard in selector and pass it as a variable?

[puff]

For example if I have a select with wild card like this.

And I would like to get the result from the wildcard and pass it as a variable to other activity.

[puff]

Here is the example mentioned above.

<webctrl name='*' tag='INPUT' type='TEXT' />

[Manish540 (Manish Shettigar)]

So you want to keep the wild card value(*) in a variable and then you want to add it to the selector… right? @puff

[Yoichi]

Hi,

We can get it using Find Element activity as the following.
Can you try to set variable at FoundElement. (Let’s say e) Then e.Get(AttributeName) returns it.

Regards,

[Karuna (Karuna Devanagavi)]

@puff
Variables and Arguments of different types can only be passed into Selectors.

No you can’t pass * as a variable.
Wildcard * is just to replace characters in String.

Please refer the link for better understanding of Wildcards

Selectors with Wildcards

For Example

[puff]

Not to add it to the selector, the wildcard is within the selector.

For example when an activity with selector <webctrl name='*' tag='INPUT' type='TEXT' /> is excuted, the result of the element found is <webctrl name='Tom' tag='INPUT' type='TEXT' />.

I want to know if there’s a way to extract “Tom” from that activity so it could be used outside of that activity.

[puff]

This works! Thanks for the help!