How To operate the flow in a virtual environment

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Hi.

I want to access a virtual PC with Remote Desktop and run a desktop flow there.

However, if I close the remote desktop window, I can't move the mouse there.

So I'll not be able to click "OK" in the alert dialog and an error will occur.

Have anyone experienced this before?

And does anyone know a solution?

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VJR 7,635 on at

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Hi @Anonymous

You can choose your flows to be either attended or unattended.

In unattended automation there is no human intervention and therefore not attended by anyone. These Desktop flows are triggered and run via the Cloud Flows.

Then there is attended automation where a human in the loop is involved. In your case it looks like this is the one you are doing since you want to click the Ok button manually. So you cannot close the remote window and you or someone will have to attend to it.

As a side note in this case if you are sure that you want to always click the Ok button then you can use the 'close message box automatically after xx seconds'.

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Hi @VJR

Thank you for answering.
I want to do it in unattended automation and click the "OK" button in the alert dialog everytime.

When I run the flow in unattended, I get an error "The link could not be clicked on the web page."
I checked the flow wht the error occured, a dialog like the picture appeared and it seemed that could not select "OK".

If you know the solution, please tell me how to do it.

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Dear @Anonymous ,
Would it be an option that you run PAD on the virtual machine and trigger the flow via Power Automate towards this virtual machine? You would just have to identify the virtual machine in Power Automate as a different 'machine', next to your own PC.
This would possibly remove the need to access the remote machine via PAD.

If this is a solution to your issue, please state so in the thread.
Kind regards,
Koen

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