Problem with On element Appear

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Hi all,
i’ve a problem with the assignment no. 2 with dispatcher, in particular on activity on element appear, it doesn’t work. This is the selector.
If i understand correctly this element is important to view if the page number is available, but why it failed?
The selector is that

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Thanks in advice

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Try Converting in_TransactionItem To Integer as Like Belw.

Cint(in_TransactionItem .ToString)…

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Check the same selector with element exist… to verify whether the selector is working or not.

Please mark this as resolved if it works.

Thanks,
Anil

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Still the same, i did a write line and the value at first run is “1” of transactionItem, so is possible that it must be “2”? Namely the next page?

Thanks

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What is the value that your passing in In_transaction_Item ?

1 or 2 ?

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At first run 1.
I’ve assigned in GetTransactionData In_TransactionItem = Transaction number, and only then increment Transaction number by 1.

Before i do this.

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You should increment like below in assign activity.

if In_TransactionItem .Equals(“1”)

In_TransactionItem =In_TransactionItem +1

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In else condition?

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Not In Else

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Even if this is a string? @Ankumarm

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@Ankumarm at first run TransactionItem is 1, On element appear doesn’t work for activity timeout exceeded. What’s wrong? The selector is the same of the documentation on academy

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why would you want to click in page 1 if you are already on it? :slight_smile:

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@bcorrea at first run, transactionItem is 1, so go directly trough On element appear, but goes in timeout, at second run go trough else and click the next page.

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i guess is all about choice right? but would look nicer if you started your transaction at 2 then and not one… still it should be an integer and not text, or you cant increment it…

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Yes i’ll try your choice but why “on appear activity” goes in timeout?

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When the value is “2”, it goes into timeout? then the best is to try the selector in ui explorer to make sure it works before trying the whole project.

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Yes the same, i’ll check, thanks.

Basically, the “on appear activity” check if you are in the same page of the transactionItem and perform the activities inside Do, is correct?

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to be honest, i would not use it, but again is a choice of how you make things happen, maybe is better the Element Exists activity…

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try setting repeat forever to false for on element appear

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@bcorrea What’s the difference between this two?
In this case do the same thing or not?

Thx

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on element appear means that the execution of the next activity will start only when the element appear, no matter how long the wait is as long as u configure it right.
element exist means that the robot executes the checking of the element if it is there, then pass a boolean variable with either true or false values which can be used in an if activity to determine the next course of action

interesting fact: on element appear functions the same as element exist on a while/do while loop

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