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Power Automate - Using Flows
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Flow Sporatically Works

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Posted on 24 Aug 2023 16:37:38 by

I have a PAD flow that:

 

  1. signs into a site
  2. navigates to 3 different pages on the site, and on each page presses a download button to down a PowerPoint file
  3. signs out of the site
  4. opens a PowerPoint “template” file
  5. opens the first downloaded PowerPoint file from the computer's Download file folder
  6. crops an image on the second slide in the file (the first just being a title slide that is ignored)
  7. copies the slide, closes the downloaded file and pastes the slide into the “template” file
  8. iterates steps 5-7 two more times getting the other 2 downloaded PowerPoint files
  9. saves the template file with a new name + the current date into a different folder
  10. closes PowerPoint
  11. Launches Outlook and sends an email with the newly created file attached.

This flow only works occasionally.  I will get errors in random places (though many of them seem to be related to getting UI elements).  I can run the flow unsuccessfully and then immediately run it again with no changes and it works.  I cannot figure out a pattern to this.  Does anyone have any suggestions how to make this work dependably?

  • Unknown geen idee Profile Picture
    1,755 on 30 Aug 2023 at 07:51:54
    Re: Flow Sporatically Works

    Dear M,

    It sounds to me that you have not completely customized your UI elements yet to make them adaptable to a dynamic environment (i.e. websites). I encountered similar issues and it took me a while to realize how I could customize the UI elements, but after that is was a breeze and the flow was stable.

     

    Check out and go through the following pages:

    I know these can be tedious (I skipped them first as well), but put in the effort and patience and you should get the concept.

     

    Hope this helps, happy flowing,

    Koen

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