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Vodafone
EG
Last activity: 19 Mar 2018 13:30 EDT
Pega Robotics - Openspan - How to deal with dynamic table or fields on a website ?
Hi,
We're working on a dynamic website structure that means the business team can add more fields on specific table or form,
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How can we adapt with this changes for table matching or elements matching ?
Example:
if we designed and matched a table with this structure:
ID FirstName
1 John
and after deployment the administrator add extra field on the same table
ID Code FirstName
1 233 John
Is there any way to still match ID value and FirstName value ?
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Another question
Is there a way to match element based on another element text ? for example
Country Spain
Can i match Spain based on it beside Country element ?
Thanks ,
Pegasystems Inc.
US
The best way to handle dynamic controls is to use clones.
For more information on this see the post below:
https://collaborate.pega.com/question/iterate-through-table-using-clones
Vodafone
EG
but to work with get clones the matching cells should be fixed and this will not solve my problem
because the problem is the business may add extra column in the table and this will change the matching cells sequence !!
Pegasystems Inc.
US
You will not be able to use the Table Designer for solving your issue. You need to interrogate the rows (clone them them) and the columns inside of the rows (clone them). Once you do this, you can iterate through the rows and for each row iterate through the columns. Using the new interrogation features in 8.0.1082 you should be able to build the hierarchy of the table to do this.
If the ElementClass is unique for each column you could also match each column that way. That would eliminate the need for cloning the columns.