Dinking with verifyText and xPath, wanting to create a more generic search

Ui.Vision
1

I added a verifyText, clicked the ‘select’ button, and its suggestion was

xpath=//*[@id="skip-button:17"]/div

What is the ‘17’ for?

Can I remove the

:17

and make it a generic search for any skip button? Is the asterisk a global placeholder, allowing me to change it to

xpath=//*[@id="skip-button*"]/div

Thanks

2

What is the goal here? Is there more than one Skip button?

To ignore IDs and XPath, you can use

XClickText | *Skip*

This uses OCR to find any button or link with the the text “skip” in it.

3

This could be helpful, thanks.

It seems that reappearing buttons look the same visually but change their underlying coding, for example, it might originally be

foo/17 (while visually appearing as bar)

and the next time it appears it’ll be

foo/6 (while visually appearing as bar)

so I’m looking for the coding equivalent of the wildcard character to see if I can get it to search for

foo* (while visually appearing as bar)

There’s still so much to learn…