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Send Keys are not working in unattended mode

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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

Hello Experts,

My requirement is : I have a suggestion field, I will pass few letters to the text box and it will provide the suggestion list then I will use down arrow to highlight the first suggestion and send enter key to select.

Issue: My down arrow and enter keys are passing properly in attended mode but when I switched to unattended mode it is not passing the keys and also not gives any error like keys are not passed due to some issue.

Tried: I have tried to focus on the web element before using the send keys but not worked.

Example: I am able pass text to the text filed and I want select the second suggestion which is "send keys selenium". Using down arrow to highlight and enter key to select.

Note: below screenshot is just a example

Please help me to resolve this asap because I stuck while my application move to production stage.

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Hello @Anonymous
When sending keys to Google.com on Chrome I was able to type, go down arrow twice and then hit Enter.
I was able to do this via the editor window as well as the My flows screen.
Could you elaborate where are you not able to run it.
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Thanks @VJR

Have you tried the same in Unattended mode?

If not please create a web power automate flow, from there call the desktop flow which you have created to pass keys.
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Hi @Anonymous

Unfortunately I do not have the same environment for Cloud Flows and Desktop Flows.
Perhaps someone might be able to help you with this.
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Were you ever able to resolve this? Based on the results of my flows it seems like "send keys to the foreground window" is working sometimes in unattended mode but not consistently. I am sending "page down" keys to scroll a web element. I wonder if the "foreground window" and unattended are not compatible modes...