download data from website using uipath RPA

Question

I have automated the login and getting to the downloading page where i have some pdf's which i want to download. These pdf's are dynamic ,sometimes there are 10 sometimes 100 ,it changes everyday.i want to download those pdf's . please find the attached image

Here i want to download the pdf by clicking each elements in column 3(hyperlink highlighted in blue colour) ,the number of rows in the table is dynamic.how can i do it using UIPATH.

Answer 1

From the top of my head, without knowing the application you are working in I see a few different approaches you can try:

Approach 1: Extract table as Data Table

Perhaps you can extract the table as a Data Table, enumerate the rows and find the individual link selectors you then can pass to a click activity.

Approach 2: Dynamically manipulating the selector

Use UIExplorer to find the selector of the link in the third column. Typically the attribute idx is the unique identifier. You can construct your own variable idx and in a while loop increment this variable while passing it to a click-activitys selector: "<your normal selector here someAttr="something" idx="+idx.ToString+"/>

This way, when the click fails with selector not found you will be at the last row of the column and you can exist the while loop.

Approach 3: Using Find Children

Another approach is to use the Find children activity on the column or table to get the children, i.e. the rows. You need to know which filter to use, it is basically the selector. Find children outputs a IEnumerable<UIElement> you can iterate and pass to a click activity