URGENT: Hertz website date picker

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Hi UiPath community,

I am currently having an issue developing a date picker for the Hertz website (URL: https://www.hertz.co.za/). My current issues are:

  1. I cannot extract from the calender the month and year unless I use Computer Vision. This is a problem because I need to dynamically compare the month and the year from the calendar to check whether it is the required date.

  2. Also, I cannot select the date dynamically as required

Currently, I am trying to use data scraping to find the possible dates to compare. Any assistance would be highly appreciated.

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e.g. reading August 2021 should be possible with get text and fine tuned selector

You are looking for e.g. setting a particluar date, right?

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I tried getText and tuned my selector but was unable to extract any date. However, when I used CV it worked but only for the specified dates

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Yes, I am looking for specific dates

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have a look on this prototype flow:
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it was taking pickup month and year
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The field without the date picker open is how you should get the current date it’s set to.

<html app='chrome.exe' title='Hertz Rent A Car | Quality Car Rental | Car Hire South Africa' />
<webctrl id='pickup-date' tag='INPUT' />

And since it’s an input you can probably set the value using the same selector. If not, this is the selector for the month/year in the picker:

<html app='chrome.exe' title='Hertz Rent A Car | Quality Car Rental | Car Hire South Africa' />
<webctrl parentid='pickup-date_root' tag='DIV' parentclass='picker__box' />

So you have it click the right or left arrow until the month/year is what you want. Then this is the selector to click one of the displayed dates:

<html app='chrome.exe' title='Hertz Rent A Car | Quality Car Rental | Car Hire South Africa' />
<webctrl aaname='17' aria-role='gridcell' tag='DIV' idx='1' />

Just replace 17 with a variable containing the number of the date you want to click.