- Release Notes
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- Automation Best Practices
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- Workflow Analyzer
- About Workflow Analyzer
- ST-NMG-001 - Variables Naming Convention
- ST-NMG-002 - Arguments Naming Convention
- ST-NMG-004 - Display Name Duplication
- ST-NMG-005 - Variable Overrides Variable
- ST-NMG-006 - Variable Overrides Argument
- ST-NMG-008 - Variable Length Exceeded
- ST-NMG-009 - Prefix Datatable Variables
- ST-NMG-011 - Prefix Datatable Arguments
- ST-NMG-012 - Argument Default Values
- ST-NMG-016 - Argument Length Exceeded
- ST-DBP-002 - High Arguments Count
- ST-DBP-003 - Empty Catch Block
- ST-DBP-007 - Multiple Flowchart Layers
- ST-DBP-020 - Undefined Output Properties
- ST-DBP-023 - Empty Workflow
- ST-DBP-024 - Persistence Activity Check
- ST-DBP-025 - Variables Serialization Prerequisite
- ST-DBP-026 - Delay Activity Usage
- ST-DBP-027 - Persistence Best Practice
- ST-DBP-028 - Arguments Serialization Prerequisite
- ST-USG-005 - Hardcoded Activity Arguments
- ST-USG-009 - Unused Variables
- ST-USG-010 - Unused Dependencies
- ST-USG-014 - Package Restrictions
- ST-USG-020 - Minimum Log Messages
- ST-USG-024 - Unused Saved for Later
- ST-USG-025 - Saved Value Misuse
- ST-USG-026 - Activity Restrictions
- ST-USG-027 - Required Packages
- ST-USG-028 - Restrict Invoke File Templates
- Variables
- Arguments
- Imported Namespaces
- Recording
- UI Elements
- Control Flow
- Selectors
- Object Repository
- Data Scraping
- Image and Text Automation
- Automating Citrix Technologies
- RDP Automation
- Salesforce Automation
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- VMware Horizon Automation
- Logging
- The ScreenScrapeJavaSupport Tool
- The WebDriver Protocol
- Test Suite - Studio
- Extensions
- Troubleshooting
Dynamic Selectors
A dynamic selector uses a variable or an argument as a property for the attribute of your target tag. This allows the selector to easily identify a target element based on the value of the variable or argument, and not an exact string, which might change, depending on interactions inside your automation project. As such, the variable or argument can be changed to interact with a different element, without changing the selector itself. A dynamic selector has the following form, with the specifications:
- tag - the target tag, such as
<ctrl/>
- attribute - the target attribute, such as
name='menuItem'
-
{{Value}} - the name of the variable or argument which holds the property of the element you want to interact with.
Dynamic Selector Format:
<tag attribute=<code>{{Value}}</code> />
<tag attribute=<code>{{Value}}</code> />
To illustrate the functionality of a dynamic selector, we create a simple automation process which performs a click on the File menu in Notepad. We then change the variable so that the Format menu is then clicked, but without modifying the selector.
The generated selector now instructs the Click activity to perform the action on the File menu. To have it click the Format menu, for instance, you only need to change the default value of the variable. In this example, the operation requires a single step:
- Access the Variables panel in Studio and change the Default value of the MenuOption entry to Format. The Click activity now performs the action on the Format menu in Notepad. Note that the selector is already validated and you can start your automation process, which now clicks the Format menu instead of File.