Unable to find element on website if scrolling is required

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I have a valid selector that can click on the correct elements in MS Planner online when the object I want it to click is visible on the screen. The element is unable to be found if I would need to scroll right or left to see it. How can I fix this? This is my current selector. It needs to be dynamic so can click on any MS Planner task.
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Will setting the zoom on chrome work for you? Reduce the zoom to make more of the page visible.

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Hi @gianna.demetroulakos

Try to.use set focus activitiy which focuses to item by indicating the hidden element, then after that use click activitiy

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Is there a way to identify the end of the page? I would recommend building the workflow so that it searches for the element. If element not found, then page down/scroll and repeat. Continue repeating until end of page is found, or element is found. If there isn’t a way to identify the end of the page, then just put in a loop counter instead and repeat until the element is found or max loop counter is met

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I tried to Zoom out so the whole page was visible but it didn’t work. The bot couldn’t find any items when before it could find a few

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Hi @gianna.demetroulakos, can u try with set focus activity?

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Nived N

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Hi. this did not work either. The bot was only able to find the same items as it previously had been without the set focus activity, but couldn’t find any more

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the page needs to be able to scroll both right and left as well as up and down - do you know how I would do this?

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Hi is the uielement is at the bottom of page? @gianna.demetroulakos

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the page mostly scrolls from right to left and a little up and down. the bot can scroll to the right and find the first 2 elements that are out of view but it seems to be unable to scroll back to the left to find the third element

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@gianna.demetroulakos
give a try on the hover activity

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would i put the hover activity before the click activity?

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yes try it like this

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CV Hover or Mouse Hover?

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grafik

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The bot still was unable to find the 3rd element

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maybe the bot is too fast

  • just go for debug / put some delay before for analysis purpose
  • maybe the selector can be reworked / be more specific
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is there a specific part of a selector that indicates which column to search in on a website? i think that might be part of my problem

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it would be helpfully for us if you could share some meore details on the element structures etc.

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I am working with MS Planner online. There are over 100 tasks that i need the bot to click on. The tasks are organized into about 20 columns. it seems like the selectors are having the bot look in just 1 column/area of the screen