I had a flow on Power Automate that worked well, it would get the date&time, format it the way I liked, set a variable that contained a file location and the new file name including that formatted date time, then it would open a webpage on edge, and I managed to use the "send keys" and "wait" functions effectively to print the page as a pdf. It would do this for 4 webpages I need to save as a pdf on a weekly basis every Monday. I would sit back, drink my morning coffee and watch my laptop quickly open each tab and save as a pdf. I would check it and move on, having saved time on a boring, repetitive task.
However, for the second time it has randomly broken for no apparent reason. Last time it seemed to resolve itself after a few hours, as if it had been some bug someone else had sorted out for me.
But Yesterday it did this for a second time, after working well for weeks and weeks, having made no recent changes, and I still can't get it working again. It gets to the part where it opens edge and then just....stops.
When you open the process and watch where it is up to, it doesn't even move on to the next step, which is just to wait 2 seconds (I put that there to ensure all the graphics on the page load). The timer keeps ticking over as if it thinks it is running but it doesn't move to the next step in the process. That one button just isn't moving on after it opens any page at all, even on new flows I've created to test it, so I know the flow itself isn't the issue.
I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both the edge extension and the power automate desktop app, I've restarted numerous times, I've tried it with Chrome, I've tried alternating the advanced options of clearing cache & cookies on or off, and it's the same problem. I've started from scratch, logging into my personal account instead of work and creating a new flow but that launch button just stops the flow every time.
The only thing I can think of is I'm pretty sure my windows updated itself over the weekend as I remember being asked to restart it, could that have changed something? If so, I think Microsoft needs to see that this can be an issue, flows that are working well shouldn't randomly break for no reason, and basic functions like opening a web browser are used for many people. Any suggestions on how to fix this? (OR an easier way, without purchasing any upgrades, to save a webpage as a pdf for my boss every Monday using either the desktop or online power automate apps?)
