Hello Everyone.

I'm new to IBM RPA and I've found a difficulty which I'd be happy for your assistance with.
I'm trying to create a bot which fill in the fields of the Rpa Challenge page and then click submit.

My problem is to create a stable selector for each field. On this website, all the fields details (index, id, name etc.) are changing each time the website is being opened/ the submit button is being clicked (Please see the attachments). 

I'd be happy for assistance with understanding how can I automate in this website, or if to be more specific- how to create solid selectors?

Thanks in advance.

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Sarel Fisher
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Many thanks to Pedro Silva from ABP Consultancy which was able to find an easy solution for this problem.

Solution:
On each field there is a label which doesn't change, even when the "submit" button is being clicked: ng-reflect-name="labelFirstName".
In order to use that as an identifier, we should follow these steps (a to e are just an explanation of how did we get to f- which is the solution):
a. Right click on the input field
b. Inspect
c. Copy XPath
d. Paste it inside the "Set value to field" activity
e. Choose XPath
f. Change the value from "//*[@id="JaEk0"]" to "//*[@ng-reflect-name="labelFirstName"]"

Here is an example code:
defVar --name count --type Numeric --value 0
webStart --name browser --type "InternetExplorer"
webNavigate --url "http://www.rpachallenge.com/"
while --left "${count}" --operator "Less_Than" --right 3
    webSet --value "Some First Name" --selector "XPath" --xpath "//*[@ng-reflect-name=\"labelFirstName\"]"
    delay --timeout "00:00:05"
    webClick --selector "XPath" --xpath "//*[@value=\"Submit\"]"
    incrementVar --number ${count}
endWhile
webClose --name browser --leavebrowseropen


Regards,

Sarel.
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Sarel Fisher
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue June 01, 2021 08:22 AM
From: Sarel Fisher
Subject: RPA Challenge website- how to create solid selectors

Hello Everyone.

I'm new to IBM RPA and I've found a difficulty which I'd be happy for your assistance with.
I'm trying to create a bot which fill in the fields of the Rpa Challenge page and then click submit.

My problem is to create a stable selector for each field. On this website, all the fields details (index, id, name etc.) are changing each time the website is being opened/ the submit button is being clicked (Please see the attachments). 

I'd be happy for assistance with understanding how can I automate in this website, or if to be more specific- how to create solid selectors?

Thanks in advance.

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Sarel Fisher
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