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In desktop flow how to select a radio button in a list of dropdown for a specified input from the dropdown list

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In desktop flow how to select a radio button from a list of dropdown for a specified input without search option for filtering the input . The flow will be in the looping format for every loop there is an specified input to select the individual radio button.

  • UshaJyothiKasibhotla Profile Picture
    225 Moderator on at

    Use set dropdown activity and you can give an index of the radio button that you want to select.

    then use the focus text field activity then select the radio button.

     

    Hope this helps

    Usha.

     

     

  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
    Most Valuable Professional on at

    This really depends on whether you're doing that to a web page or a local application. Can you share some screenshots?

  • rpaservice Profile Picture
    20 on at

    We need to do it in a web application 

  • rpaservice Profile Picture
    20 on at

    Hi UshaJyothi
    Actually it is not dropdown. 
    we have list of options on the webpage, we can select an option by clicking Radio button next to the option available. 
    Is there any way I can automate this process? 
    I have 16 to 20 options, for now I have manually coded for each option. 

  • UshaJyothiKasibhotla Profile Picture
    225 Moderator on at

    please check if it works by sending keys..if it works use the send keys activity

    focus text and try to use click activity 

    for further clarification please share some screenshots

     

    Hope this helps 

    Usha.

     

  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    You should probably extract all available items in the web page by using Extract data from web page. When you do that, you can try to extract the Ids of the radio buttons, too, if they have some unique Ids. When you extract that, you can use Find or replace in data table to find the value you are looking for in the table you extracted. You can then pass the Id (if it was available) or the index of the radio button into the selector for what you're trying to click on.

     

    See this article for modifying selectors: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/build-custom-selectors

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

     

    Also, unlike what @UshaJyothi20 suggested, I would absolutely advise against using Send keys, unless you try everything else first and nothing works. It's much less stable and trustworthy than the native Browser automation actions.

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  • rpaservice Profile Picture
    20 on at

    Thank you for the advice I will check and let you know if it worked for me. 

  • rpaservice Profile Picture
    20 on at

    THank you Agnius. 

    I will check the solution given by you and keep you posted if I see any issues in implementing it

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