UiElements, iterate and try catch questions

[Carla_Munoz (Carla)]

I have a question about how to develop this automation. The idea is to access a web page, specifically this one: Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones, and download the PDF files located below. The problem arises when the webpage has more than 2 attached PDFs (for example: Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones) or sometimes when there are none.

So, I don’t know how to specify to the bot to iterate if there are more documents or to prevent it from failing when none are found.

[raja.arslankhan]

@Carla_Munoz
You can number of rows

did you use for each ui element activity?

[raja.arslankhan]

@Carla_Munoz
UI Element Activity is design for similar elements in application. Use this get rid of error when their is multiple rows

[BBarik_Dev]

Use Data Scraping , in the ‘Edit Data Definition’ option change the ‘attr’ value of Column-3 to ‘href’, you will have all the download links directly in data table. Then under loop of data table navigate the URL to download PDFs.

Note: Keep MaxNumberOfResults to 0 and ensure you define nextLinkSelector (since i can see there is a page count also)

This way you can handle both download and possible Exceptions