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I have created a desktop flow for web automation in which I am trying to add the comment in a perticular text/comment box which has a different existing comment for each record. I am trying to use populate the text filed option with append text in advanced . however this steps is adding new comment in between existing text if the existing text is longer. For short existing text its working fine.

Could you please advise how to add the text in text /comment box in web automation after a existing text. I believe my current flow is adding the text after certain character only if the existing comment has longer character.

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momlo 1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Sunil_shinde , can you show some examples of both text boxes (their selectors as seen in browser dev tools) or perhaps the site is public?
Also selector of the captured text box in the PAD.

One solution that you could do is to instead of happening text:
1. Read the current comment from the text box to %OldComment%
2. Populate with text (replace): %OldComment%. %NewComment%

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Sunil_shinde 30 on at

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I want to keep existing comment as is and add new commnet after the existing comment. Site is not public hence can't share.

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Sunil_shinde 30 on at

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@momlo
I want keep the old comment and add new commnet to the comment box. I tried as reading comment from the comment box by selecting the comment box as a UI element and and the tried to add the line with append text however its giving me error as failed to read the comment.

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Sunil_shinde 30 on at

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Hey could you please help me on this please. Attached is screenshot of the text box. Last field is my comment box where I want to add comment after existing notes.

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Pavel_NaNoi 1,074 on at

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To workaround this, simply extract all of the text out of the comment box first and store it in a variable, then instead of appending to the comment box, just overwrite it with the text you've extracted + the new text you want to add

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Sunil_shinde 30 on at

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@Pavel_NaNoi thank you for your suggestion. In every record the text in comment box is different so what command I can use there to store the text as variable and then adding comment with old +new.
Sorry but I am new user to power automate desktop so asking this agin.

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Pavel_NaNoi 1,074 on at

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no worries, it should be the "Get details of element on web page", since you're in a browser.

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Sunil_shinde 30 on at

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Hey Thank you so much!!!!. It worked.

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Sunil_shinde 30 on at

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Thank you so much !!!!

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