UI automation error: Unable to input a textbox

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Hello.

Now I'm creating a desktop flow to input daily actual worktime to a system from a CSV file.

As you can see in the attached image, the system has a spec that can input workload for multiple projects.

Because there are multiple dates and staff in the CSV data, I used loop action in my desktop flow.

When I run the flow, the first キャプチャ.PNG loop process executed successfly,

but when the date and the staff field was changed and the process is going to input "project code", this error occured (attached)

Does anyone know what should I do?

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OkanAutomation 107 on at

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If it found the first element. That would mean your selectors are not dynamic.
You need a way to make the selectors of your UI element dynamic.

To make selectors dynamic i would suggest reading some in the documentation. Or you can send a screenshot of your UI Element in the right hand panel with the Selectors, I'll see if I can help.

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momlo 1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Xiaolan as @OkanAutomation wrote you need to learn about making selectors dynamic, few palces to start:

Microsoft documentation - get familiar with it:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/build-custom-selectors

Search this forum, there are many simialr psots like this one:
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Desktop/Dynamic-Selector-variable-in-selector-in-Desktop-Automation/td-p/716646

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Xiaolan 19 on at

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Thank you for your reply.

This is the screen capture.

This is the previewed selector.
> pane[Class="BrowserRootView"][Name="日報入力 - Microsoft Edge"] > pane[Class="NonClientView"] > pane[Class="GlassBrowserFrameView"] > pane[Class="BrowserView"] > pane[Class="SidebarContentsSplitView"] > pane[Class="SidebarContentsSplitView"] > pane[Class="SidebarContentsSplitView"] > pane[Class="SidebarContentsSplitView"] > pane[Class="View"] > document > group[Id="updateForm"] > table[Class="list"] > dataitem > dataitem > table[Class="fixed_row"][Id="table1"] > dataitem > dataitem > edit[Id="constNo_0"]

As It doesn't work in 2nd or more time loop, I captured the UI element in the refreshed page again.
(So, 2 selectors are set for the UI element)
But It also failed.
I compared these 2 selectors, the selector for the default page and the selector for the changed page, in detail but I couldn't find any difference. I even used fc command to compare them, but the result was the same.

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Xiaolan 19 on at

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I've changed the attribute "ID" from "ConstNo_0" to "%'ConstNo'%%variable%" even though the UI element for 1st row shows "ConstNo_0" in every display.
Then, the 2nd loop went successfly. But 3rd loop failed again. Still I'm struggling to solve this error...

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Xiaolan 19 on at

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Hi
I've changed the attribute "ID" from "ConstNo_0" to "%'ConstNo'%%variable%" even though the UI element for 1st row shows "ConstNo_0" in every display.
Then, the 2nd loop went successfly. But 3rd loop failed again.
So I removed all the checks on the elements except the 1st and the last element.
Then every loop ran successfly without any fault.
The problem was solved, thank you very much for your help!

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