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I'm trying to click on the Liste complète accordion first then click the Rechercher button but for some reason the UI selection tool isn't highlighting that part in red.

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Why is that ?

And what are the alternatives?

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @jfhandfield

Which part is not highlighted by power automate ?

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jfhandfield 49 on at

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It's my bad actually. I wasn't using the correct action in power automate. Once I changed for click on a user interface element it worked.

I have a second question, once I click on the Rechercher button a second window is opened and I would like to extract the complete table in there. How do I accomplish that ?

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @jfhandfield

You can use extract data from webpage actions for that 🙂

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jfhandfield 49 on at

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Ok so I'm pretty new here and I'm confused. Let me give you my flow
1- Launch new Edge with the Url : https://amp.quebec/rea
2- Click UI element in a window : Hyperlink - 'Liste Complète'
3- Click UI Element in a window : Button ' Rechercher'
All that is working fine. But when I click the button another tab Titled 'Résultat Recherche' with a url of about:Blank is opened.
I need to extract the HTML table in that window how do I do that ?

I tried using the extract from a web site but that's not working

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @jfhandfield

I couldn't see any window opened when clicking Rechercher

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jfhandfield 49 on at

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You need to click the Liste Complète first then you click on the Rechercher

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jfhandfield 49 on at

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Hey all,

I'm back on that project again and still trying to understand what I'm doing wrong. I'll explain the endgame of this project.

I need to browse a website, click on a link and a button. When I click the button there is a new tab that open and there is a Table with 6838 element that I would like to get and put in an excel file.

I'm able to open and browse the website, click on the element then the button. My problem is once the tab opens I'm unable to get the data from the Table.

I'll show you my flow in screenshots.

Hope you guys can help me out.

Thank you

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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When automating a web page, you need to use the actions in the Browser automation group of actions, and not the UI automation group. The UI automation, such as Click UI element in window are used to automate local applications installed on your machine, and not web pages. You should use Press button in web page for that instead. And for extracting data, you would need to use Extract data from web page or Get details of element in web page.
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jfhandfield 49 on at

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Ok I get what you mean even though it was working a bit before. I changed everything to the Browser Section and I'm still able to click on link. I tried the Extract data from web page but I'm getting a Data exrtraction element not found. Is it because when I click the button a new tab opens and the table is on that new tab?

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jfhandfield 49 on at

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I think I figured it out. I'm creating a new Launch of a browser but i'm attaching it to the instance already running with the title of my new tab. Now I'm able to retrieve the table.

Thank you all for the help

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