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Greetings to the Power Automate Desktop support team!

I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. First of all, I want to express my appreciation for the incredible work you do to constantly maintain and improve this powerful tool.

Recently, while exploring the features of Power Automate Desktop, I encountered a problem with the advanced selectors.

My specific query is why it keeps getting error, I took into account the use of advanced selectors, the screen resolution, repairing the selector, testing it and also manually extracting the containers. I have reviewed the available documentation, but nothing works for me as well as I understand that the way the web page is built does not help much but it is somewhat tedious. I attach the following

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I thank you in advance for your attention and assistance. I understand that the vacations have just ended, so I further appreciate your time and effort in responding to my inquiry.

 

 

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  • trice602 Profile Picture
    16,397 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Celaque ,

     

    I will share an unpopular opinion with you - that said, it works 100% of the time!

     

    In rare cases when I cannot get an element to work, what has worked for me is I use "Send Keys".  So in this example, if my cursor is in the email field, I populate it and then use {Tab} to move to the next field (PW).  I enter it then in and the {Tab}{Tab}{Space} to press the login button.

     

    Again, I understand the reasons why there are better approaches than using Send Keys and 100% agree, however, I have never heard an argument why it is not acceptable when it does work 100% of the time, especially when you cannot gain access to the PW field (in your example).

     

     

  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Celaque 

     

    @trice602  I think @Celaque  is trying to extract value from input field as extract data from webpage is used ?

     

    Could you confirm that ?

    Thanks & Regards,

    Nived N 🚀

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  • Celaque Profile Picture
    44 on at

    Hi! @Nived_Nambiar  Trying to make sure select the div or selector to write correctly the password.

  • trice602 Profile Picture
    16,397 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Celaque ,

     

    Thanks for confirming.  So if you want to type in the PW, please try my approach - works in testing.

     

     

  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Celaque 

     

    Ok then try using populate text in web page action , that would help !

     

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    Thanks & Regards,

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  • Celaque Profile Picture
    44 on at

    @Nived_Nambiar Already using populate text.
    @trice602 This is big problem for me, not using input with ciphertext

  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @Celaque 

    So you are saying that using populate text in webpage is throwing error ?

    Thanks & Regards,

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  • Celaque Profile Picture
    44 on at

    @Nived_Nambiar  Yes!

  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    That seems strange !, as selector highlighted in selector panel is not working when running, see if disabling this option in populate text in webpage action helps you or not ?

     

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    Thanks & Regards,

    Nived N 🚀

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  • Celaque Profile Picture
    44 on at

    @Nived_Nambiar 

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