web
You’re offline. This is a read only version of the page.
close
Skip to main content

Announcements

Welcome to the Power Platform Communities
News and Announcements icon
Community site session details

Community site session details

Session Id :
Power Platform Community / Forums / Power Automate / PAD flow populating co...
Power Automate
Unanswered

PAD flow populating controls on a secure java page and the control values don't stick.

(0) ShareShare
ReportReport
Posted on by fjmartino

When I run my flow it populates all the fields correctly on the java web form for the report I am running however, when the report is rendered two of the drop down list values that did appear to have been populated at run time are not selected for the output report.  Any thoughts would be helpful.   screen shot of the flow is below. 

 

fjmartino_0-1630077943050.png

 

 

 

 

 

 

Categories:
Power Automate Desktop
  • Pavel_NaNoi Profile Picture
    Pavel_NaNoi 1,074 on at

    Can be a bit flimsy that one, here are some bullet point ideas that you can try and see if that works:

     

    • If you can write into the field, use a populate text field on webpage + send hotkey (Enter or tab) actions
    • Make sure the chrome window is in focus, use a focus window activity
    • Use a UI Element Selector that looks for a name attribute with what you want though if there is no name attribute, make a custom one with something like : "td:contains(%GroupBy_0%)" (the td part might not be there depending on the layers, so don't panic if you don't see it in there, use extract data from web page to understand this a bit more and see what the bot actually sees)
    • If all else fails, use OCR (slow and won't get everything if the dropdown list has a scrollbar, have to work around that somehow)

    Hope this helps.

  • tkuehara Profile Picture
    tkuehara 667 on at

    Hi @fjmartino 

     

    Seems to be a load/timing issue. Let me see if I got it correctly:

    1. The webpage displays the controls
    2. The automation populates them and correctly set the dropdown menu values
    3. Then, after a while, the values are reset

    Is that so? Seems like a component refresh/load time issue. It might work waiting for a while before populating the form fields.

Under review

Thank you for your reply! To ensure a great experience for everyone, your content is awaiting approval by our Community Managers. Please check back later.

Helpful resources

News and Announcements

Welcome to the Power Platform Communities

Quick Links

Season of Sharing Community Challenge Winners!

Congratulations to our community stars!

Kudos to our 2025 Community Spotlight Honorees

Expanding mentorship, skilling, and AI innovation

Congratulations to the August Top 10 Community Leaders!

These are the community rock stars!

Leaderboard > Power Automate

#1
11manish Profile Picture

11manish 273 Super User 2026 Season 2

#2
Mohsin Ali Profile Picture

Mohsin Ali 235

#3
David_MA Profile Picture

David_MA 172 Super User 2026 Season 2

Last 30 days Overall leaderboard

Featured topics

Known issue with browser automation in Power Automate for Desktop on Google Chrome 146 and 147
Share your ideas and struggles with building Power Automate flows!
Survey: Power Automate mobile app
How to Ask for Help with Your Power Automate Workflow
Start and wait for an approval action
Restore a deleted flow
List of actions cheat sheet for Power Automate Desktop
Welcome to the Power Automate forum!

Product updates

Microsoft Power Platform Community release plans