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input fields always selected as edit in web form filling

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When trying to select an input UI element in google forms (or any other website that i've tried with input fields), I can only select a UI element as edit and not as input. I've also tried to edit the properties using the Selector builder from edit to input but without any success.

Maybe it's the intended behaviour, but then - in the "populate text Field" flow/action, There are no available UI elements to select from - the list is empty

For example: HTML element

<input type="text" class="quantumWizTextinputPaperinputInput exportInput" jsname="YPqjbf" autocomplete="off" tabindex="0" aria-labelledby="i1" aria-describedby="i2 i3" required="" dir="auto" data-initial-dir="auto" data-initial-value="">

The UI element that is created

 > pane[Class="BrowserRootView"][Name="Some Name - Microsoft Edge"] > pane[Class="NonClientView"][Name="Microsoft Edge"] > pane[Class="BrowserView"] > pane[Class="View"]:eq(2) > pane[Class="View"] > pane[Class="View"] > document > group[Class="freebirdLightBackground"] > list[Class="freebirdFormviewerViewItemList"] > listitem[Class="freebirdFormviewerViewNumberedItemContainer"]:eq(0) > edit[Class="quantumWizTextinputPaperinputInput exportInput"]

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for your help

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Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

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@roybr7 ,
If you're having issues picking UI elements manually.
My recommendation will be, using Web Recorder and while web recorder is active start filling the form and let web recorder capture elements for you.

Note: Do type something into the input box for to capture it right later in the PAD you can replace that text with variable.

Hope this makes sense 🙂

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Hi @roybr7 ,

If "Populate Text field on Web Page" action does not show the captured selector, double-check if the selector is captured as a Web Element or a Window Element.
You can do this by navigating to the UI Elements section in the PAD Designer, and check the root element under which this selector is listed.
If the Root element is a Window or a Pane, the "Populate Text Field in Window" action would be able to interact with it but not "Populate Text Field in Web Page" action.

For the selector that you've shared, the UI Automation set of actions should be used and not the Web Automation ones.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Shrav

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