Menu Layout button on Appian Selenium

RE: Menu Layout button on Appian Selenium

Steven Miccile — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 19:22:02 GMT

The Appian Selenium API has javadocs in the download. Have you tried the following?

clickOnRecordActionFieldMenuAction
```
public void clickOnRecordActionFieldMenuAction(java.lang.String indexOfField, java.lang.String action)
```
Click a specified action inside a record action field with styling of MENU or MENU_ICON
FitNesse Example: | click on record action field | [INDEX] | menu action | ACTION_NAME or [INDEX] |

Parameters:

indexOfField - The index of the record action field out of all record action fields on the page

action - The action from the dropdown that the user wants to click on

RE: Menu Layout button on Appian Selenium

David Jimenez — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 07:34:09 GMT

Identifying a button in Appian using Selenium can be more challenging than in traditional applications because Appian generates its UI dynamically and many CSS classes can change frequently. Here are some effective and stable ways to locate buttons:

1. Locate by visible text
If the button has visible text, you can use XPath:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//button[normalize-space()='ButtonName']")

If it’s not a <button> element but a <div>, <a>, or similar:

driver.find_element(By.XPATH, "//*[text()='ButtonName']")

2. Use stable attributes
Look for attributes like:

aria-label

title

id (if not dynamic)

data-*

Example:

driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "[aria-label='Save']")

RE: Menu Layout button on Appian Selenium

varung120549 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 05:51:43 GMT

Hi anbus0002 ,

Identify a Unique XPath/CSS Selector for the Menu Layout Button.

Check the following Selenium code if you are trying to test or using RPA:

WebDriver driver = AppianObjectRepository.getWebDriver();

WebElement menuButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[contains(@class, 'Button---secondary') and contains(@class, 'Button---small') and contains(@class, 'Button---with_icon')]"));
menuButton.click();

If it's RPA, then you can refer this link - Browser Java Module

Note: The above code is just for reference, identify exact relative xpath !!!

Menu Layout button on Appian Selenium

RE: Menu Layout button on Appian Selenium

clickOnRecordActionFieldMenuAction

RE: Menu Layout button on Appian Selenium

RE: Menu Layout button on Appian Selenium