Click Link on Web Page now taking 30 seconds

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Hello,

So I've been running this flow for a while, but lately this particular step to click on a web page link is taking 30 seconds. This is in a loop, so it might need to click on the link 60-100 times, so this can add upwards of 50 minutes for this single step. I googled and saw someone recommended to add the "Focus Window" beforehand, I did that and no changes. I've tried it with both Send physical click on and off, and in both cases it is the same. Any thoughts on how I can fix this? Again this is a loop so the page is staying open, it's not like the page is reloading over and over again.

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @CharlesBrewer

Could you share how selector looks ?

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Hi there @Nived_Nambiar ,

I'm not completely sure what you're looking for so I shall send you many things.

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Try this way, in advanced settings of click webpage link action, toggle off send physical click option and try again.

Also let's try to make selector short, by checking html of webpage for that right click on uielement in webpage, and select inspect element option, share the screenshot of that.

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Hello again @Nived_Nambiar ,

I've tried it with the click on and off, but I'll try it with off this time, sure. Is this what you want?

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @CharlesBrewer

Are you trying to seelect webpage link based on text ?

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Hello @Nived_Nambiar

Yes sir. Here is a picture of it. It selects the first link to open a new page, gets some info, closes the page, and then moves down the list to the 2nd, 3rd, etc.

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @CharlesBrewer

Then i would recommend to try this selector instead of one you are trying long one u are using

a:contains("%text%")

where %text% is variable in PAD which stores the link text which is to be clicked. for example: RA-170973 , RA-174493 etc.

Let me know whether it worked for you

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Hi @Nived_Nambiar ,

I'm not sure I understand. So delete the entire selector I have now and only put "a:contains("%text%")" ?
Also how will it know to click on the 1st link on the 1st loop, and then the 2nd link on the 2nd loop, etc. You see in my current selector I have the "tr:eq(%LoopIndex%)" so it hits the right link, I need to incorporate that yes? Otherwise I'm not sure how that works, talk to me like I'm dumb cause I kinda am 🙂

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@Nived_Nambiar

Or how am I getting it to store the text? And also do the loop? I'm a bit confused here.

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @CharlesBrewer

Try any of appraoches which i am suggesting below 🙂

1st way: using data scrapping option to scrape the text and its associated link (of the ID column )

Use data scrapping to to take the details of ID column, its text and corresponding URL and then loop through the datatable obtained from it and use go to webpage to go to the specific url of that specific ID and then perform operations regarding the ID and then use go to webpage again to go back.

2nd Way

For the selector case which we have discussed , selector should be placed like this

here text variable should be the variable from PAD which holds the value of ID name like RA-170973 like that.
If you have list of all ID names, you can loop through it and then assign it to text variable and make the bot to click on it 🙂

here List1 is initialized for temp purposes, but in your scenarionyou can use extract data from webpage action to extract the ID names.

Hope this helps
Mark it as solution if it resolves your query

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