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Posted on by sarah1898

Could someone help me in changing the populate text field of web page selector as the input field changes as the page gets reloaded.

My task is to enter the master data of customers, which are stored in a separate Excel spreadsheet, into a model driven app that I have created with PowerApps. After the form is filled in for one customer the bot has to do this for each row of the data table. For this I used the ForEach action. Unfortunately, once the new form loads, the UI selector of the text field won't get recognized correctly. The following did not work:
div:contains("CustomerName") > input.

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Which of these could be used as an anchor? Thanks in advance!

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tkuehara 667 on at

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Hi @sarah1898

Could you provide more details about your flow? When you say it didn't work, does it run at least once?
If it does recognize the first time, then it might be the case of waiting for the element for a bit longer.

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sarah1898 2 on at

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Hello @tkuehara,
thank you for replying!

I have tried your recommendation, but unfortunately that did not work either. Yes exactly, the ForEach-loop runs one time sucessfully... After one form has been saved, the text field doesn't get recognized anymore.

If someone could help me, that would be awesome!

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tkuehara 667 on at

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Hi @sarah1898

I see you have a "Set drop-down list list value on web page" before the "Populate text field on web page" action. Does the former work after one form has been saved? If none of the controls work after the first save, then it might be a higher-level change in the page structure.
The selector "div:contains("CustomerName") > input" is already pretty generic and should work in most cases, again, unless the refresh changes its structure after the first save (like adding a new element like a div or label before the input).

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