Selenium / OPENTEXT Content Suite

Hello,

i have developed a automation tool using Python and Selenium so my coworkers could upload files to OPENTEXT Content Suite. The bot was using Selenium to find element in the HTML source and perform the user's actions. For example:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, 'element').click()

Everything was working fine but OPENTEXT CS has been patched recently and Selenium cannot find any element anymore.

Here is the snippet of the "new" HTML source

All the layout and content are now in the table class:pageBody tightTable but Selenium can't find anything in the page. I tried the WebdriverWait functions but nothing worked.

It seems the table is on its own layer but I dont know how to access it. I guess there are jscript and iframes somewhere that prevent from automate the browser but I can't figure out the solution.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

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Greg Griffiths

have you considered using the REST API instead ?

favreo

Hi Greg

thanks for the reply. It was supposed to be an easy RPA-like tool used by not IT people in the first place.

And I'm not sure how to deal with the hundreds of thousands of node ids we are managing in OPENTEXT.

Greg Griffiths

if you right click on the field in the browser and select Inspect, you can see the name/id of the element that you need as it may have moved around in the DOM.

As the Weblingo files are open to change from OT, and / or other groups which may also break the RPA solution, you may find the REST API a more suitable option.

favreo

Thank you Greg. I'm getting in touch with the IT OPENT TEXT team for the REST API.

Greg Griffiths

you can find the info for the REST API at https://developer.opentext.com along with the REST APIs for all their other products.