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Hello,

I am new to PAD. I am trying to keep hitting a "Refresh" button to refresh a list, until a specific item (can be recognized by a string) appears, then continue with the flow.

I've tried:

- Wait for window content does not work - because the Refresh button needs to be clicked first.

- Create a loop to press the Refresh, the wait for window content with that specific item: I do not know how to break out of the loop when the item appears, since this function does not return any variable.

Could someone please help? Any suggestion is appreciated.

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Power Automate Desktop

You can break out from loop with Exit loop action. Have a condition that if the text exists in window then Exit loop.
Or use Conditional loop like so:

Wait for window content -action should be used to check if the page is loaded fully so you don't need to use hard coded waits. So if the UI has some element that indicates the content has fully loaded you should change the 5 seconds wait to that.
But you shouldn't use Wait for window content -action when the content might not pop up next refresh. Then it just waits until the content either shows up or the action times out.
So if in the first refresh the content is not on the list then the flow won't continue and refresh the list until the action times out.