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In Power Automate Desktop, I'm seeking to create a dynamic selector that operates based on the text of a specific field, which contains a varying number that needs to be located on a webpage. The challenge is that the location and the identity of this field may change with each instance. The field to be identified is consistently positioned to the right of another field, with the format: text -> field to fill. Given these requirements, what is the most effective method to achieve this? Additionally, I am unable to use a static ID for the field due to its changing nature. Can you suggest a strategy or approach within Power Automate Desktop that can handle this dynamic scenario efficiently?

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Power Automate Desktop

Since this looks like a table/grid kind of a UI, you could likely use Extract data from web page to extract the values into a data table, then use Find or replace in data table to find the value you are looking for in the resulting table. Then use the index as the ordinal value in your selector (row index) for what you want to populate.

Other than that, your best bet is using JavaScript. PAD selectors do not natively support sibling relationships between elements, so you cannot use the text next to the target field in the selector for the target field.

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