Hi Team,
In the Select item activity i have duplicate name in the list… i have try to Select “Business Unit” first one… at the time debug the code its choose second one… how set first one in the select item.
First Business Unit xpath : //[@id=“filters_grp_company”]/optgroup[2]/option[5]
Second Busines Unit xpath : //[@id=“filters_grp_company”]/optgroup[3]/option[5]
Thanks
Shyam
To select the first “Business Unit” option in the Select Item activity when there are duplicate names in the list, you can modify your selector to be more specific, targeting the first option explicitly.
In UiPath, you can use the “idx” attribute to specify the index of the element within a collection. Here’s how you can modify your selector to target the first “Business Unit” option:
Thanks & Cheers
Hi Shyam,
If the child elements are static try using dynamic click, which means click on the drop down first-> then click on the ( First Business Unit xpath : [@id=“filters_grp_company”]/optgroup[2]/option[5] ) using another click selectors.
Try simulate properties if it works or else go with default(Hardware events)
Thanks,
Biswajeet
when working with the select item we can modify the selector pointing to the select element (the dropdown). But influence the item selection is for us behind the scenes.
As alternate pattern we can do:
so for click 2 we can fine tune the selector
When some precalculations are to be done in advance we can use find children and getting all options on advance.
we would assume that on html element level there will be 2 different value attributes for a further differentation
we need details what was done what was failling
keep in mind that we do a lot of selector definitions by structure analysis and are not block if an indicate item fails on the first round.
At least within the uiExplorer we can handcraft the selector
are you working against a webpage Html Select dropdown?
Share some more details / screenshots please
as we dont see any webctrl tags within the selector we would doubt a few things
it is webpage automation work. Only this select items showing like this.
other select items are webctrl tags are available. So that i shared the xpath
before running into a long ping-pong conversation
what is to achieve
what are the application / webpage details (structures, screenshots)
what was done
what is failing
As we asked e.g.
vs
we have doubts and unclear items
Kindly note:
When a pure HTML element is not recognized with a webctrl tag in selector, ensure:
Hi @ppr
Can able to indicate the select employees option in webpage
click select employees option dropdown box will be appear… In that dropdown i have to choose the first Business unit try to indicate the on three methods AA, UIA, and Default its showing above image i shared
Final Goal : i want to select first Business unit in the dropdown list
thats good, so we do see the expected webctrl tag
So when clicking (click activity) against the dropdown is it expanding the list?
Show us the details from the both option elements (screenshot from UiExplorer / Browser F12 Webtools)
Thanks
So within the second click (Click Activity after expanding with a first click) we can make the click selector specific when using
maybe finetuning a css-selector (first option group) or a find children post calculation
kindly note: value is an attribute which will not be offered for the selector design / definition
Hi @ppr
can you elaborate more in css-selector to indicate
in Addition to
selectors are using the css-selector syntax and not XPath
Xpath ../optgroup[2]/option[5]
CSS-Selector: /optgroup:nth-child(2)/option:nth-child(2)
But when setting the hardcoded index then we also can shift directly to the hardoced idx=XX option from the selectors itself
(we assumed also the usage of optgroup selector within the selector hierarchy, unfortunately not offering the label attribute for selectors)
in css we also have the option to react on attribute content:
optgroup[label="…Private Limited"]
But it looks fragile in UiPath Selectors
So, we recommend the find children approach to options and filter it to that option which has the corresponding optgroup parent
Was find children tried, as we recommended?
