Click a dynamic hyperlink in PAD

[dougowens]

I’m wanting PAD to check a webpage and click on the hyperlink that is labeled with the name of the new hire.  I am unable to account for the dynamic hyperlink.  A screen shot of the web page and the HTML is attached. 

[Agnius]

I would suggest using the Extract data from web page action to extract both the names and the hyperlinks behind the names. This will return a table. You can then use the Find or replace in data table action to find the row index of where the name that you are looking for is. When you do that, you can use the hyperlink in a Go to web page action to open the page. No need to click the element itself at all.

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[dougowens]

I dont think that's exactly what I need.   The position of the first row of data is always the same, but the Name (Title) and the GUID for the hyperlink will change.   I need to look at the top row of data.  If the name under the start date is "Julia Sugarbaker" then I need to click on the Name and interact with a following pop-up.  

[Agnius]

The <li> element is the parent for each person that you might want to click on. If you get the index of the one you want to click on via using Extract data from web page (to extract all names) and then Find or replace in data table (to find the name you are looking for in the table you extracted), you can pass that as a variable to your selector. 

Do li:eq(%index%) to set an ordinal value using a variable called %index%.

Of course, you need to click on one of the child elements of the <li> element. So, you need to capture the actual element you want to click and then modify its selector so that the <li> part depends on which item you want to click on.

See here for reference on how to add variables to selectors:  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/build-custom-selectors#use-variables-...

Also watch this video on building dynamic web selectors: https://youtu.be/2PcyBa22Jj8

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