Using a variable inside a ui element

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I am trying to select the last day of the previous month on a pop-up calendar. I have a variable for the last day of the previous month, but can not get it to work in my ui selector. I have looked at many examples and tried them all to no avail.

The selector properties (for example) are as follows:
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I want to replace the ‘31’ with the lastDayofPreviousMonth variable. Have tried the following:

<webctrl aaname=’ ‘“+lastDayofPreviousMonth+”’ ’ type=‘button’ innertext=’ ‘“+lastDayofPreviousMonth+”’ ’ />
<webctrl aaname=‘‘“+lastDayofPreviousMonth+”’’ type=‘button’ innertext=‘‘“+lastDayofPreviousMonth+”’’ />

and a few others. What am I doing wrong. The variable is in scope.
Thanks.

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Hi @ravel70

Can you share the Screenshot of UI explorer and the lastDayofPreviousMonth Value

For Dynamic selector

Regards
Gokul

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sorry, here is the original selector:
**not letting post the original for some reason, but where the variable is in the examples, there is a 31 with 13 spaces before and after.

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daysInPreviousMonth
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using above in selector with .toString

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HI @ravel70

Try this selector?

Pass asterisk in place of empty space

<webctrl aaname=‘*{{lastDayofPreviousMonth}}*’ type=‘button’ innertext='*{{lastDayofPreviousMonth}}*’ />

Regards
Gokul

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Hi @ravel70

  1. Create a variable like this lastDayofPreviousMonth and pass the date

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  1. open UI Explorer in Click Activity and indicate on screen and check for “aaname” or “innertext” in the attributes

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  1. Right click on the value and choose variable as you have created in the starting if not choose create variable and create a new one

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4.As you remember this is the variable i have created so choosing this

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  1. After Selecting it will become like his and works dynamically

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Regards
Gokul

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Thank you Gokul001.

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just use the </> button from the editor or screenshots as you had done

as you got told combining it with * will help

About the selector design, focus on following strategy:

  • make the selector as short as possible
  • make the selector as specific as possible

using aaname and innertext is redundant. So go only for the innertext and dynamize it with variable and wildcards

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will do. Thanks.

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