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Get PAD Version number

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Posted on by GanCW 237

Is there a way to get the version number of the PAD that the flow is running on ?

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  • MichaelAnnis Profile Picture
    MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

    On your main PAD window (with all your flows), go to Help -> About.

     

    If you need it automated it would be something like:

    Focus Power Automate Desktop (Preview) window

    Send Keys {LShiftKey}({Tab:5}) (this is assuming the top flow is highlighted at start)

    Send Keys {Enter} 'to select the Help Icon

    Send Keys {Down} 'to move the selector down to the About

    Send Keys {Enter} 'to select the About icon

    OCR the active window

    Parse Text on "Version " to %Position%

    Get SubText from %Position + 8% to %Position + 20%

     

    Good luck

  • GanCW Profile Picture
    GanCW 237 on at

    I was looking for a way to get the version number into the automation log file without UI interaction.

     

    Thanks anyway.

     

     

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    VJR Profile Picture
    VJR 7,635 on at

    Hi @GanCW 

     

    Here is one way of getting the version details by running a Powershell script.

     

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    The script used is:

     

    Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | where-Object Name -Match "Power Automate for Desktop" | select Version

     

     

    VJR_1-1646484094752.png

     

    Tip:

    If you do not want the other text, then use the Replace function to replace the word "Version" and ------- into a blank string %''%

     

     

     

  • GanCW Profile Picture
    GanCW 237 on at

    Thanks. This is great.

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