I am using a web page witch does a search for a value. When it pulls up the result form the buttons on that form are apparently given new names each time the form is opened. I need to click on a button on that form to continue what I am doing. How can this be done if the value required by the click command is always changing? Is it possible to insert a visual search and click operation? If so how?
It is 
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or these forum posts:
- Using Type for VisualSearch - #2 by admin - UI.Vision RPA - UI.Vision RPA Software Forum | Discuss RPA Automation, Selenium IDE and OCR API Text Recognition
- Submit button that changes location - UI.Vision RPA - UI.Vision RPA Software Forum | Discuss RPA Automation, Selenium IDE and OCR API Text Recognition
- Just a click on X/Y position - UI.Vision RPA Software Forum | Discuss RPA Automation, Selenium IDE and OCR API Text Recognition
And then there is the “classic” solution with Xpath: How to get the Selenium IDE commands to work with dynamic ID's - UI.Vision RPA - UI.Vision RPA Software Forum | Discuss RPA Automation, Selenium IDE and OCR API Text Recognition
As for me the best way is to bind it by id or class.
Example:
name=searchForm.submit
id=edit-submit
class=edit-submit
or by xpath //*[@id=“edit-submit”]