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Pull-down selection on the browser

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I would like to use Power Automate Desktop to manipulate pull-downs on my browser.

 

I use the "Click on a UI element in a window" action and it runs fine right after I design it.
However, when I save the design and launch the RPA at a later date, the "Click on UI element of window" action causes an error message "Click failed".
I have not made any changes to other parts of the RPA since it started working properly.

 

When such an error occurs, if I select again the point to click on the UI element, it works correctly at the time of design.
(The same error occurs after some time).

 

In the browser, clicking on the text part of the pull-down or the button part on the right opens the item, so if the click designation location is set to text or to a button, the error occurs.

 

This browser is intranet, is there a problem with the browser?

 

If anyone has any ideas as to the cause, please let me know.

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    Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
    Most Valuable Professional on at

    It sounds a lot like the element you are trying to click is dynamic and changes with each browser instance. You will need to modify the selector to not contain any parameters that could possibly be dynamic. I would suggest capturing it twice and comparing the two selectors to figure out what changes. Then modifying the dynamic part out of the selector.

     

    See here for more info on how to modify selectors: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/build-custom-selectors#use-variables-in-a-custom-selector

    Also this tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PcyBa22Jj8&ab_channel=Thomas%22Shaky%22Petersen

     

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  • cater25 Profile Picture
    31 on at

    Thank you for your prompt reply.
    I will refer to the URL you shared and verify.

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