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Published inNov 2018
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ISBN-139781789610444
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Lim Mei Ying
Lim Mei Ying
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Lim Mei Ying

Lim Mei Ying has extensive experience in designing, implementing and supporting Blue Prism processes as well as setting up a Robotic Operating Model for the enterprise. She has spent many hours figuring out the dos and don'ts of Blue Prism technologies and thrives on the challenge of finding new ways to solve automation problems. Mei Ying lives on the sunny island of Singapore.
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Using dynamic match attributes

We entered the keywords, triggered the search, got some results, sifted through the results, and finally found the item that we want to purchase. How can we get the robot to click on it to get to the product page so that we can add it to the cart?

The problem with the spying methods that we have utilized so far is that it assumes that the item that we want to click on is fixed: if we just want the first item on the list, we just spy it and get the robot to click on it.

In the case of the search results, the position of the item that we want to purchase may vary. Today, it is found in row 3. Tomorrow, it may be in row 5. It is not fixed. The final answer depends on what appears in the listing at the time the search is triggered.

How can we pass the information about which row to click on to the robot? To do this, we need to perform a dynamic match...

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Lim Mei Ying

Lim Mei Ying has extensive experience in designing, implementing and supporting Blue Prism processes as well as setting up a Robotic Operating Model for the enterprise. She has spent many hours figuring out the dos and don'ts of Blue Prism technologies and thrives on the challenge of finding new ways to solve automation problems. Mei Ying lives on the sunny island of Singapore.
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