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3715014 - Why is my RPA bot for UI scraping failing after a system update?

Symptom

My Robotic Process Automation (RPA) bot, which integrates with SAP Ariba by scraping data directly from the user interface (UI), is failing. The bot often breaks after system updates because HTML elements or field names have changed.


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Environment

  • SAP Ariba Procurement
  • SAP Ariba Sourcing

Product

SAP Ariba Procurement, cloud edition all versions ; SAP Ariba Sourcing, cloud edition all versions

Keywords

RPA, update, bot, developer, non-human, scraping , KBA , BNS-ARI-PCP-BF , Base Framework , BNS-ARI-PAS-UI , UX Framework (Dashboard, Home Page, Portlets) , Problem

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