How to get hidden link from a certain xpath?

UI.Vision RPA HowTo
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I’m trying to get a hidden link from a certain xpath (where you can’t see it on the GUI but it’s in “inspect elements”) - is that possible? I tried using SourceExtract but I couldn’t get it working; is there a better function?

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Hi, can you explain more what such a hidden link is? Maybe an example page?

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Sure. Like if I click on “HowTo” above with the purple square, I don’t want to store “HowTo” as the text, but the URL it links to (forum.ui.vision/c/rpa/howto/16). Like if I do this, I want to grab the link to Google, and not “this”.

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use Command: storeAttribute

and in Target put @href at end

Target should have xpath of Tag “A”

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Edit: I tried storeAttributes and it works for most links, but for the link I’m looking for can’t be found for some reason.

It’s not a input box, but I suspect this could be it because there is a checkmark nearby the link:
storeAttribute does not work with input boxes. But for this, you can use *[executeScript](https://ui.vision/rpa/docs/selenium-ide/executescript) | window.document.getElementsByName('Phone')[0].value; | value* as replacement. This does the same as storeValue in the old IDE.

But I’m not exactly sure how to execute that. What do I replace/keep as is? Not sure what the variables are in the above macro.

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you can specify attribute you want to get

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I tried but it couldn’t work (from edits before):
Do you mean like this

    {
      "Command": "storeAttribute",
      "Target": "//*[@id=\"provider-mounter\"]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div[4]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/table/tbody[1]/tr/td[3]/span/div/div[2]/@href",
      "Value": "!csvLine",
      "Description": ""
    },

?
I tried doing this, as well as removing the @href/various combinations of xpath (some nested, some not), and adding a xpath=//, and each time UIVision can’t find it:

[error][ignored] Line 2: timeout reached when looking for element 'xpath=//*[@id="provider-mounter"]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div[4]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/table/tbody[1]/tr/td[3]/span/div/div[2]/span[1]/a'

I’m sure the xpath is correct, and when I do it for another link on the exact site that doesn’t have a check box, it works.

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can you record video from scratch

start by element, how you get xpath and what you input in code
Also expand TAG HTML Code

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and you are using absolute xpath
It might not work if you visit same page again.