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Power Automate Desktop - utilise existing functionality (used by existing actions) in a Custom Action

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I'm wanting to use the "Add UI Element" functionality, which is used by many of the standard desktop actions, inside the "Browser automation" Category, within a new C# custom action I'm developing.

 

Has Microsoft produced any of this functionality as a library?

If they have, where can I find the documentation on it?

 

 

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  • CU16071609-1 Profile Picture
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    Hi @VinceC, To my knowledge, Microsoft has not furnished comprehensive documentation for the custom SDK. Could you kindly elaborate on the specific goals you are aiming to accomplish? This additional information would enable me to review your objectives and offer assistance accordingly.

     

    Thanks,

    Deenu

  • VinceC Profile Picture
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    Hi @Deenuji,

     

    Thanks for getting back to me.

     

    In my current flow I'm using the "Browser automation" to load a website, login to it and then click on a button to go to a page where there are 4 links to files that I'm interested in downloading, this is all working perfectly.

     

    However, as they are quite large files, I only want to download them and process them if they have changed, since the previous time I checked them.

     

    So I want to create a Custom Action (HasFileBeenUpdated), with InputArguments: Last updated text file; Web browser instance; UI Element; Advanced selector; Wait for page to load switch; Timeout on webpage load; If a pop-up dialog appears selector.

     

    The action will then access the given "UI Element" containing the "<a href=" (in the same way that the "Press button on web page" does), read the last updated file and extract the date entry for the given URL, then get the modified date time for the given URL, if the modified date time is more recent than the extracted date entry then return true otherwise return false.

     

    Regards,

    Vince

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