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Populate text field and send keys not populating the UI element.

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Posted on by carcmena99 75

I have multiple Automatation flows that use either Populate text field or send keys to populate a Element in the web or in an app like "Excel" that have been working perfectly, but right now if there is a "Populate text field or send keys" action then it doesn't continue the flow, it just keeps on the action, but it doesn't show any error like "cant populate element" or something like that.  I have tried other flows that I know for a fact that they work, but same thing happens. Do anyone knows how to fix this?

 

 

This flow doesn't continue from this action...

 

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It should populate this field in excel:

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The UI element configuration:

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    Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

    If it used to work for you, but now doesn't work anymore, with the flow getting stuck and not moving on, nor throwing an error, this sounds like a bug. I would suggest reporting this to MS support.

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