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Unable to extract data from desktop application

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Hi All, 

 I am trying to extract data from the desktop application using PAD. I am using Extract Data from Window Action (the UI element is shown as a table). But while running the bot, it got stuck in that step for a long time. It is not throwing any errors or extracting any data from the table. Please help. Thanks!

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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    The Extract data from window action is not able to extract data in a form of a data table like the Extract data from web page is able to do for web pages. It will only be able to extract a single string/blob of text, assuming that your application actually allows that. As such, I usually prefer using the Get details of element in window as it does the same thing and usually works better (and also has more options as to what to extract).

     

    If you need to extract a table, you will likely need to extract every single value individually and then add them to a data table inside your flow.

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    Hi @Agnius ,

    Thank you so much for your response. I want to extract a single column value from the table. I tried to use the get details of element in window action. If I try to capture the UI element, it shows like this: But it is not getting any value from the Ui element. I did a ctrl+left mouse click. It says to wait for an action, but no luck.

     

     

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    If it never actually captures the element and gets stuck, you might want to report a ticket to MS support, as it might be a bug.

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