Table Extraction "This element type is not eligible for table extraction"

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Hi,
New user here, learning as I go and i’ve hit a snag to which i cannot find the answer.

I am attempting to perform a table extraction however i get the following error:

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Can anyone shed any light on how i can resolve it please.

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Hi @Morris_Coyle ,
Are you trying to import the table from a document or website? Can you share an example?

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Ah yes i should have said, its from a website; Had to hide some fields as they may be sensitive but it looks like this. The ‘next page’ button is the 3 dots at the top

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hey

which activity are you using? is this the data scraping? remember for new data scraping you just need to select any of the cells and the table will recognize automatically

regards

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Yes, this is using the Extract Data Table method. I can get this to work when looking at the acme-test.uipath.com example and can get it to work just fine. But the website table I am doing as part of this exercise kicks up the error message above.

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can you try getting the table but by region? selecting the region

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Look at the underlying HTML. Is it actually an HTML TABLE?

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Hi Paul, it seems you know something. Is it possible that some website moved out of HTML tables? For example Amazon gives me the same error when I try now to extract data from it. Therefore we cannot use anymore Extract Data Table. Or is it just a Edge/Chrome extension issue?

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The Extract activity should be able to handle more than just HTML tables, but there may be things it cannot handle. You’d have to show us what you’re working with before we can help.

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I suspect its my Edge extension which is blocked by some security policies. Im going to solve that with my IT and then if still persists I`ll come back