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I am doing a desktop flow, which populates a password. This password is currently hard coded in the flow and typed into the password field. When I run the flow manually from Power Automate Desktop, it works great. However, when I call the flow from a scheduled cloud flow (attended), the password field is not populated. Anything special you need to do to populate a password when calling a desktop flow from a cloud flow?

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Highboy 1,187 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Do you get any errors?
Is the password field on a webpage?
Is the password in an application?
Answer to your last question : no.

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@jlindstrom is the password an input variable type from cloud flow?

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Joel CustomerEffective 3,224 on at

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Thanks—making it an input variable woked

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see my earlier response--moving to a variable fixed it

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Hi, I have the same problem as OP but moving the password to a variable does not help.
The Desktop flow runs on a VM without any problems. The VM is always running and connected to the flow.
When I call the Desktop flow from a cloud flow with the password as input parameter, I get the error:
"Problem while executing action 'PopulateTextFieldUsePhysicalKeyboard'. Failed to write text in form field."

Curiously, when I start the Desktop flow from the Cloud flow, and then switch to the VM to see what happens, it does work. If I don't switch to the VM after the flow starts, the flow fails.

Anyone an idea? Something special I need to do to get this to work on a VM?

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@Onno_E You should not login to VM while the desktop flow running as Unattended. This error Problem while executing action 'PopulateTextFieldUsePhysicalKeyboard'. Failed to write text in form field. seems to be issue with the selector.
You can verify the logs under Power Automte portal > Monitoring > Desktop flow Runs

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