selenium-ide: Cannot use variables in Selenium IDE

💥 Regression Report

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The keyword to call variables ${} is no longer recognized by Selenium, and is treated as a string of text instead. Encountered this issue while testing an automated bot after following a tutorial.

Last working version

Worked up to version: Unknown given I haven’t used Selenium up until recently, but based on third-party sources, it worked at least until 02/28/2023. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/inputs-outputs-web https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-app-management/2019.3.0?topic=test-passing-variable-values-selenium-script

Stopped working in version: 3.17.4

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Add a store command with a target variable and a number of your choice, then an echo command that is supposed to call the variable. Like so :

Command|Target|Value store | number | 1 echo |${number}|

In the example above, the output is “${number}”.

Expected behavior

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The echo command should return the number “1”.

Project file reproducing this issue (highly encouraged)

Please provide a project file .side that reproduces this issue.

Github would not let me post the file, so I changed the filetype to txt. probtrimmed.txt

It was trimmed down to include only the code that errored, and I added comments to describe what the code does.

Environment

OS: Ubuntu Studio 22.04 Selenium IDE Version: 3.17.4 Selenium SIDE Runner Version: None, using only the WebExtension Node version: None Browser: Firefox Browser Version: 115.0.2 (64-bit)