Can't enter text in specific text Filed

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Posted on by HSRPABOT

Hi ,

I can't enter text in text filed using "Populate Text filed on web Page" action.

I used the same action for many other text fields It worked for them But not for this one . Some Times when it did not work for some text fields I disabled "Populate Text Using Physical Keystroks. Can Anyone help me with this?

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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Can you provide more context?

What happens when you use the Populate text field on web page action? Does it fail an throw an error? Does it succeed without any errors, but does not actually populate the text field? If it fails, can you share the error message?

Also, can you try to right-click the text field in your browser and select "Inspect"? This will show you the selector for the field in the browser developer tools. Please share a screenshot of that.

Please also include a screenshot of the web UI element you have captured in PAD.

This will help us help you figure out the problem and resolve it.

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Srini007 3,327 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @HSRPABOT

As this happens dynamically I suggest you check below

1) try placing / increasing some delay time as this might going next step very fast and the element is not ready

2) check the selector and build some dynamic selector

Also share you Selector and screenshot of the workflow to know the issue

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Srini

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