Scope Inheritance and the FIND action

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In this lesson, we will illustrate how the scope inheritance works on the "Find" action example.

The "find" action looks for a single target element on the page to pass it as the scope to the children.

By default, the action throws an error when the element is missing. With the optional setting, it will silently skip its children.

Narrow down the element scope of children to a specific fragment of the page. Bonus effect – CSS selectors get simpler.
If optional: conditionally skip some steps if the target element doesn't exist (handy with flaky websites).
Grab information from one fragment of a page to use it on the other (check the challenge ahead!)
1. On the parent level, use the Object.setPath pipe to stash any information you wish to preserve in the scope and pass down to the children.
2. On a child action level, use the Object.getPath to retrieve the data.