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Issue with running flow in unattended mode

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I am having the worst time figuring out how or why my desktop flow, which runs successfully either manually run from the desktop, or when ran in attended mode from the cloud, which never have any issues, but when I test the flow running in unattended mode, which is the goal, it always errors out with different errors like:
- Can't find the text field, or
- Can't click on the link, or
- Can't select the button

 

I have read that there are issues with using the UI commands in unattended mode, and tried converting everything to mouse movements, but that doesn't work for me as I can't seem to figure out how to enter text into a widow field or a web filed without using the UI tool.  I have also read where it takes longer for the flows to run in unattended, so I tried adding as wait to the beginning of the flow but that didn't work either.  I have also recreated this flow using the recorder several times, with the same outcome.

 

Wondering if anyone else has this issue, and if so, what you did to resolve, because i really don't like having to wake up really early to start these flows.

 

Also, I'm not sure if I did something wrong or not, but I first created the flows on my desktop running Windows 10, and then tried running the same flows on the desktop where we want them ran, and they kept failing, for example at the login screen for a website, the flow would enter the username, but error out at the password field, saying "Can't find the field" but as soon as I re-selected the UI field element, it then worked, but now won't work if i try to run it on my laptop.  Any ideas on this issue as well??

 

thank you for your help.

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  • momlo Profile Picture
    1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Hi @commalliance  it is hard to say without seeing your code and examples where it failes, but in general i do not see any issues navgatign UI elements in unattended vs attended modes.

    Can you share code snippets, selectors, urls, etc?

  • OkanAutomation Profile Picture
    107 on at

    I had the same problem, check this solution from myself:  Solved: PAD sometimes not clicking UI-Button even though i... - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

     

  • momlo Profile Picture
    1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Remember that it will reset each time you update PAD to new version.

    Safer option is to use set resolution in PAD, but then, it will create issue if you develop on machine over RDP - so you need to add on error so it ignores error and preceeds with the rest of the flow.

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