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how to automate process that use auto-generated elements ?

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Hi dear all 🤗,

 

 

I'm new with Power Automate Desktop, and I'm trying to automate a process using LinkedIn and Sales Navigator (an other product of LinkedIn). But some elements are auto-generated as we click on "more" or "plus" button for example :

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Element's id are also dynamically generated, so my unique option is to identify an element with its CSS class (because no other attribute are referenced). It's working for most part of the elements I identified, but not for the options that appears when clicking in the web page. CSS classes seems to be not loaded with PAD, as they should be dynamically loaded, as in common usage.

 

Does someone has an idea of how I can get those elements ? Or maybe how we can dynamically reload the web page to refresh the CSS in the automated process ?

 

Thank you a lot, it would be very nice ! â€Œâ€Œ😊

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  • Henrik_M Profile Picture
    2,021 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    In this case I tried adding the "Archive" link in a LinkedIn chat. So I would perform four steps to get it to work after capturing the element:

     

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    1. Remove the Id attribute, which looks like it could change in the future.
      Henrik_M_1-1666277643366.png

       

    2. Activate the class attribute.
      Henrik_M_2-1666277654613.png

       

    3. Change operator to 'contains' and adjust the value so it is shorter, but still identifiable as a drop down item.
      Henrik_M_3-1666277723540.png

       

    4. Activate text editor and add the :contains filter, to only search for elements with the text "Archive"
      Henrik_M_4-1666277777699.png

       

    And that works.

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