Screen scraping doesn't produce generate table block before the get text block

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I am attempting to screen scrap unsorted data. Everything seems to be going as planned, until I try and generate a database table.

Here is what I perceive to be the issue.
The generate table block is missing. Should be where arrow is

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When I add the generate data table block I get an error message
None of the overload groups have the required/optional activity arguments configured.

which i think stems from the missing generate table block.

2

The web scraping activity generates a string, not a table.

You can take the string and add the variable to an initialized datatable

3

Then how do i get the generate table as and an generate database table as shown in the UI Path academy sequence below.

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In the GenerateDataTable activity there is an input property which accepts a string type argument

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In the Designer panel, the result of the screen scraping contains the following, in sequential order:

  • a Screen Scraping sequence
  • an [ Attach Window ] or [ Attach Browser ] activity
  • a Generate Table container
  • a [ Get Full Text ], [ Get Visible Text ]or [ Get OCR Text ]activity, depending on the method used to scrape the unstructured data
  • the [ Generate Data Table ] activity for storing the data must be added from the Activities panel.

When I do it, i do not get the generate table container. Which you cannot add from the activities panel in the designer. I assume it is needed, if not then why is it in the training solution and no other method is given to resolve this

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It may have been part of an earlier release of UiPath. All screen scraping methods output to a string instead of datatable. you can add it to an initialized datatable separately however, if that is what you need. I do not see the problem.

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Hi, encountering the same problem. Did you find a workaround?