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URL having %%20 not working in PowerAutomate Desktop flow

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Hi All, relatively new to power automate so apologies if this is an obvious question. Essentially I am building a flow which launches various different browser instances, and goes to various different sites. Many of these URL's have a % sign in them which I am replacing with %% and its works fine. (for example - "/Forms/ByAuthor.aspx?viewid=a6fe9354%%2D9ab4%%2D44a2%%2D8d06%%2Db38251db8f5f"

There are some URL's which contain %20 however, and then URL's are not working when I replace the %20 with %%20. These URL's appear to be dropping the %20 completely, and are instead opening multiple browsers as the %20 is replaced by spaces.

So basically, the URL ends "You%20Asked,%20We%20Answerd.aspx".

I'm altering it in my flow to "You%%20Asked,%%20We%%20Answerd.aspx".

The flow is actually opening as "You Asked, We Answerd.aspx", and is therefore opening 4 different browser tabs for the search.

Not sure exactly where I am going wrong here, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jack

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Jack16

Not sure around how to resolve it directly, but i found way around for this

see below

First launched a webpage https://www.google.com and then used go to webpage action to naviagte to webpage like below

web url which you need to move should be enclosed within %''% like below

if your web url looks like https://www.sharepoint/Shared%20Documents.com then it should be passed like below

%'https://www.sharepoint/Shared%20Documents.com'%

Hope it helps !

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Jack16 21 on at

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Hi @Nived_Nambiar - that worked. Thank you for the help! 🙂
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@Nived_Nambiar - So I've ran into a small issue on with this fix and was curious if you possibly had an further advise. This issue being that I'm storing the URL extension as a variable. When I enclose the URL and site variable in %''% , it drops variable.

And this is when enclosed in %''%;

Any thoughts on how I could work around this?

Thanks again,
Jack
Jack16 21 on at

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Okay, scratch that. My previous approach of pulling it in as a variable is working provided I launch the browser to a google page, and then use the "Go to Web Page" as you suggested above. Seems like that's the key here.

Thanks,
Jack
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Hi @Jack16

Could you confirm whether the current approach which i have suggested is working for you ?

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