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Hello, im trying to automate the process of adding people on a website, to do so i tried using both the recorder and the selection of UI elements. The flow is to get as input a list of URLs, open each on a single tab, and automatically press on the button add. The problem is that, from my understanding, power automate bases it's clicks on "web istances" which are also based on URLs, which means that i cant create a flow that works for every URL i open. I tried using the "image recored", but it is terribly inaccurate. Is there anything i can do to not make the flow dependent on URL?

(The rest of the html of the page is always the same, the only thing that changes is the URL of the page)

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mwd86 100 on at

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If I understand it correctly, you want to call via a list of URLS one after the other.
Each time a button should be pressed.
I have made an example where I call different pages of Google and there each time a text is entered and the search button should be clicked.
with "press button on webpage" you have to select once the button on the website by UI element. it shouldn't matter then if the urL of the webpage is different, because it looks at the structure of the html elements.
riccardo11212 8 on at

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Sorry, i dont understand what you put as "element of the user interface". because when i set up the "press button on webpage" i have to use the user interface selector, if i use it on one page i get this as element (see attached picture), which has the URL inside, and it doesn't seem to work on other pages. Could you help?
Thanks a lot for the very fast replies 🙂
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the url in the UI element doesn't matter if the website is built the same e.g. >body > div > div >form > ....
riccardo11212 8 on at

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I'm sorry, im quite new to the program so i don't know the quickest way to choose which element to click.
My method is to use the recorder tool, go on the page and click the button i want it to click every time, but this method leads to the problem i just showed you. Could you explain what is the method you use? Say for examle i want power automate to click on the 3 little dots nearby the message button and then click connect on the linkedin profile page of a person, how would i do? (attached you can find the error and the element i tell power automate to click).
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I also use the recorder tool to record the UI element.
Show me the web page you want to use.
Good tip. Change your Power Automate for Desktop to English. Then most people here will find it easier to help you.
riccardo11212 8 on at

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The webpage is any Linkedin Sales Navigator profile page, an example would be https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovanni-berra-b8763819

What im trying to say is that the action "press button" is saved inside the UI element named after the webpage it is in: for example if i use the recorder on the profile of john smith the UI element is in the under the page https://www.linkedin.com/sales/john-smith . And for what i see if i open the profile of another person, power automate doesn't seem to work, because it is not saved under the same UI webpage.
Thanks again for the help
riccardo11212 8 on at

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Hello, is there any other way you could help me solve this problem? I have very little time to make it work, any help would be super appreciated