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Power Automate Desktop | 2.14 IF, Wait, Launch App Issues

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I wanted to report and see if anyone else playing with 2.14 have seen issues when it comes to If and Wait statements. 

 

  1. Wait for window content - No longer waits for the window content to appear. It instead throws and error and necessitates me to add an additional wait before that waits for the window, then the window content. This was not necessary before and appears to add additional steps. 
  2. IF - Window contains content - This appears to be throwing an error now necessitating a Continue On Error action to move to the Else statement. This was not an issue before and is causing new issues not seen before. 
  3. Launch App - This does not work properly with either the Wait to Load or Wait to Complete settings. This may simply be an issue with the app I'm using it with, but still something should be reviewed to ensure it works as designed. 

 

I've since reverted to 2.13, but wanted to provide feedback, as this is highly disruptive. 

 

Thanks

  • Highboy Profile Picture
    1,187 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Lot's of people have problems, since 2.14... 
    But total "radio silence" from Microsoft

  • yoko2020 Profile Picture
    495 on at

    @Waylold 

     

    Those 3 points are valid bugs in 2.14 version.

     

  • Henrik_M Profile Picture
    2,021 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    @John_Mavridis do you guys know what's happening? :]

  • Slavnyy_Avtomat Profile Picture
    108 on at

    Has anyone heard anything re: 2.14 issues from Microsoft?

  • Highboy Profile Picture
    1,187 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Radio silence🙄

  • Slavnyy_Avtomat Profile Picture
    108 on at

    Cool, cool.  I've tested copying pasting a couple subflows flows into notepad from 2.13 and 2.14 and comparing them -- they appear to be the exact same file size down to the byte when pasted; I wonder if there's something that could be easily replaced that would allow one to work with the other?

    Tested copy/pasting a 'Click button on web page' command with and without the screenshot field.  They're both the same size, yet copying one to the other won't work.  There has to be something that's changed that I'm missing in all of the text, because they look identical between the versions from what I can see.

    Slavnyy_Avtomat_0-1636998056507.png

     

  • MichaelAnnis Profile Picture
    5,727 Moderator on at

    Paste the text into two separate word documents.  You can use a feature where Word compares 2 versions of the same document.  

     

    MichaelAnnis_0-1636999248007.png

     

  • NikosMoutzou Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hello to all.

     

    The issues related to 'Wait for window content' and 'If window contains' will be resolved with the next release of Power Automate for desktop that will take place in mid-December.

     

  • Highboy Profile Picture
    1,187 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    What about Wildcards in fileoperations, they stopped working when 2.14 was released.

  • Slavnyy_Avtomat Profile Picture
    108 on at

    It seems like incorporating versioning into Power Automate Desktop would be a solid idea.

    Y'know.  So businesses don't have to rebuild entire workflows based on the reasonable assumption that the new version that Microsoft prompted users to download isn't going to break everything.

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