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Hi I am trying to get the bot to select today's date which is "27". However, it is not detecting the UI elements at all. Can someone please point me to the right direction. Thank you.

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https://www.vroomvroomvroom.com.au/

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Try using this:
div[class="day unit today"] > span:contains("27")
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@Agnius

Unfortunately it is not working. Did the code work from your end?

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I've just tried and it doesn't. But I can see that you can instead pass the dates into the URL. So, I would suggest doing an initial search with the default date and then using Get details of web page to get the URL and replacing the default dates with whatever you want, and then using Go to web page to go to the resulting URL.
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Hi @Agnius

That might be a workaround and thanks for the suggestion. Do you think this is a bug within Power Automate Desktop?

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It probably isn't. The date picker UI is usually quite a pain to automate because of the way it's built. You could probably click on it if you provided a more direct selector with more parent elements defined, but it would then be harder to make it work dynamically.
Also, using URL building is always a better idea than UI clicks, as it is more stable and less likely to change over time.

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