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Good day,

I have workflow that simulates the extraction of reports from a third parties' website. The Flows have been running since January 2025 and have now started to encounter a very unique problem. They are run in a VM in Unattended mode, but the problem even happens in attended mode and on other machines.

One of the file steps is to save the file as CSV from the websites (we use Edge), but on the click Save as button on the Edge dialog box, it's as if the flow can click the button but doesn't.

I have even made multiple Selectors to assist in getting the button info to click:

Default Selector > pane[Class="BrowserRootView"] > pane[Process="msedge"] > window[Class="RootView"][Name="Downloads"] > pane[Class="NonClientView"] > pane[Class="BubbleFrameView"] > pane[Class="DialogClientView"] > pane[Class="BubbleDialogDelegateView"] > document[Id="RootWebArea"] > tree > treeitem[Name*="${DownloadName}"] > button[Name="Save as"]
Default Selector 4 > pane[Class="BrowserRootView"][Name*="${Server}"] > pane[Class="Chrome_WidgetWin_1"] > window[Class="RootView"][Name="Downloads"] > pane[Class="NonClientView"] > pane[Class="BubbleFrameView"] > pane[Class="DialogClientView"] > pane[Class="BubbleDialogDelegateView"] > document[Id="RootWebArea"] > tree > treeitem[Name*="${DownloadName}"] > button[Name="Save as"]
Default Selector > pane[Class="BrowserRootView"][Process="msedge"] > pane[Process="msedge"] > window[Class="RootView"][Name="Downloads"] > pane[Class="NonClientView"] > pane[Class="BubbleFrameView"] > pane[Class="DialogClientView"] > pane[Class="BubbleDialogDelegateView"] > document[Id="RootWebArea"] > tree > treeitem[Name*="${DownloadName}"] > button[Name="Save as"]
AND a image as fallback.

But still failing at run time.

And my Power Automate version on my machine is

And the VM is

Any thoughts?

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Power Automate Desktop

Hi there!

There's an issue seeing the images in this post and is temporary but will share a common workaround.

If you absolutely cannot press the button in the UI, try using Send Keys {Tab} and tab to the button and use Send Keys {Space} which is the simulates pressing the button.

There's a love/hate relationship in the community about the use of Send Keys. My argument is it is a Microsoft function and works very well in cases when it is my only option.

Here's an example: I can't click the button but I can get the cursor a few positions before the button. Send Keys {Tab]}{Tab}{Space}.

I do have a few flows that have been using a variation of this for more than 3 years.

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