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I am using Power Automate for Desktop. I've started with a browser, opened a web program, set variables for Username and Password, populated a text field on the web page, clicked a link on the web page, connected to Accounts and Portfolio, and then set a drop-down list value on the web page. It runs beautifully for a while some times I've up and closed it around 20 times. Then all of a sudden, once it has logged in (I never have an issue here) when it starts using UI Element it starts saying the "accounts" does not exist. Yesterday it was like that errors all the time after a few hours. Today I started it and worked fine of five starts then it had errors again. I've been communicating with Copilot but none of the fix ideas have worked. Can you help??
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  • Sunil Kumar Pashikanti Profile Picture
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    Can you list out what you have tried to fix using copilot support? that helps us to provide some other alternatives.
     
    Did you try the below:
         Use web actions, not UI elements
         Remove dynamic attributes from selectors
         Add waits after page navigation
         Disable browser reuse
         Relaunch browser per run
         Add recovery logic

    Some other fixes like this?
    1. Stop relying on pre‑captured UI elements for web pages
    2. Re‑capture elements using stable selectors
    3. Add an explicit wait BEFORE “Accounts”
    4. Kill and relaunch the browser inside the flow
    5. Turn OFF “Reuse browser instance” (Launch new instance everytime)
     
     
     

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