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Hi,

 

I'm building an automation flow for webform filling in Power Automate Desktop. One of the steps is to select a certain element and change the value. For example I want to select a radio button. So I add the browser automation step for selecting a radio button. In the settings I select an UI element. When I do this a UI element gets added but it uses a part of the URL (see screenshot).

JazzLewis_0-1684421709930.png

I want to delete the "205&title=" part. Because the URL can be different each time it will run my for each loop. When I created this flow I could select and copy the select radio button step into a text editor and delete that part of the URL. Then select the whole code and copy in back into my flow as the select radio button step but without the certain URL part (see screenshot 2).

JazzLewis_1-1684421928352.png

 

But now that doesnt seem to be possible anymore. Can anybody help me with this? To either get my previous copy and paste working again or to get the URL fixed in any other way.

 

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  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @JazzLewis 

     

    I think you are renaming the top level element name right ?

     

    Nived_Nambiar_0-1684521961030.png

     

     

    Also make sure that selector for input radio is stable as well 

     

    Since top level node has same selector as always like below

    Nived_Nambiar_1-1684522051034.png

     

     

     

  • JazzLewis Profile Picture
    15 on at

    Hi Nived N,

     

    I can rename the top level element, but that doesn't change the value in the code. When I copy the element over to a text editor it still show  with the URL value as shown in screenshot 1.

     

    Regards,

     

    Jazz

  • Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Just make sure that selector under that top level is stable 🙂

     

  • JazzLewis Profile Picture
    15 on at

    I'm not sure what that means. Could you explain further?

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    Nived_Nambiar Profile Picture
    18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @JazzLewis 

     

    The top level selector does not affect your ui element selectors defined below 

     

    Take this example 

     

    Nived_Nambiar_0-1684550593538.png

     

    here see the selector of top level of Web Page 'h ... 032#M26433'

    Nived_Nambiar_1-1684550639861.png

     

    and that of selector of top level Web Page 'h ... ACommunity'

    Nived_Nambiar_2-1684550675910.png

     

     

    Both are same , though having different URL of same (it is of same forum page and main page of power automate desktop page)

     

    Now if you place the below selector of Web Page 'h ... ACommunity' under Web Page 'h ... 032#M26433'

    it would work 

    Nived_Nambiar_3-1684550775368.png

     

     

    So make sure that ui element is stable , and you don't have to check for top level one, you can ignore that 🙂

     

    Hope this helps !

     

     

     

  • JazzLewis Profile Picture
    15 on at

    OK thanks for the explenation that helps a lot!

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