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I am having problems extracting the value from a field in a desktop application using power automate desktop. The picture bellow shows the table that i want to extract from. Here i want the value "48" from "Case(case0) #". But for some reason i am not able to mark the field og copy it using ctrl+c og right click + copy. It seems like this has been turned of.

When i inspect the UI element I dont see an Id and the Name value is the value that the field calculates, so this changes every time i run the flow.

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How would you extract the dynamic value from this field?

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eetuRobo 4,522 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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For testing purposes can you try changing the custom[Name="Row 3"] to Row 4 for example and see if that takes the Outer dimensions fields value(also toggle off the Name attribute that equals Row 3 fields value).

If so then just disable the Name attribute and if it goes to error try enabling the Ordinal = 0 to see if that takes the correct value every time.

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SebRin 11 on at

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Hej @eetuRobo

Thank you. It worked by setting the ordinal to 1. Thank you so much!

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If the ordinal 0 gets the right column (the name and not the value) then I would try changing the Ordinal to 1. It might be that Ordinal 0 is the first column (left column) and 1 is the second column (right column with the value).
And keep the Row 3 so it should get the third row from the top which would be Case(Case0) #.

EDIT: You seem to have gotten the solution so nvm :)

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