Element exist

When to use the Element exist activity

This activity helps you validate if the given element in the webpage is loaded for further processing.

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Technical reference:

Illustration

Drag an Element exist activity and connect under the Click Event activity. 

• Double-click the activity and click on the Spy symbol to open the Web Spy window on the screen
• Double click the element on the website and select again to get the attributes appears in the Web Spy window.
• Spy/indicate the element that is required to be acted on and click export to auto- fill the property details.
• Add the chosen wait time in the Wait Time field (Wait Time value is in Milliseconds.
• Declare a new variable with the data type as Boolean. (Refer figure 6.2)

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• Enter the declared variable name as Found under the IsExist field.

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Drag a Flow Decision activity and connect under the Element exist activity. It checks whether a specified condition is met and executes either of the two-branched sequences. 

• Enter the variable name which was already declared for the Element exist activity under the Condition field
• Under the True branch, connect the HTML Table to Data Table activity. This activity will be explained in HTML Table to Data Table section
• Under the False branch, connect the Close Internet Explorer Tab. This activity will be explained in Close Internet Explorer Tab section.

Figure 1.4