Wait Attribute Until NOT CONTAINING

[whyyouandi]

Hi all, what would you think about having a Wait Attribute, but with NOT and CONTAINS supported? (like, “aastate” NOT containing “is inactive”).

Lately I’ve been involved in a project where we used so much “Wait Attribute” activity; such as in wait until Save Button’s active then click the Save Button. We did it by retrieving the element’s attribute, check it if it doesn’t contains the keyword, and put it inside a While, … and added Stopwatch to avoid endless loop. It would be easier we have it as an Activity.

There might be not many environment need this, but i think it would be helpful.

Similar but a bit different with: Logical operators (AND &&, OR ||, NOT !) in selectors

[Pablito (Pawel Wozniak)]

Hi,
Thank you for your suggestion. I added it to our internal ideas tracker for our team to consider.

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Hi @whyyouandi

We now offer Regex support for selectors:

#FeatureBlog - 19.10 - Using regular expression (Regex) in the selector attributes

It is now possible to use Regular Expressions in your selectors. Follow this guide to learn how! What’s new? We have added extra syntax to the Selector Editor to allow for advanced configuration of your selectors. Let’s begin As an example, I will be creating a selector that will be able to open a file whose name is dynamically changing. Let’s assume I am receiving daily list of bills via email which are saved as a text file named ‘bills mmddyy.txt’, e.g ‘’bills 101019’. Now, I want to writ…

It could be a valid workaround for now
For example, this regex matches anything but strings that does not contain ‘is active’ :
^((?!is inactive).)*$

[whyyouandi]

That’s superb! Will check on it when I have access to 19.10. Thank your for the update.