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How to execute PAD as Administrator when it is called from Power Automate cloud flow

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Posted on by alokbgs

We have PAD which perform certain action on Sage300 application. Sage300 application is run as administrator. PAD also developed with Run as Administrator. But when we are calling PAD from Cloud flow in attended mode. It gets executed in normal mode. Hence not able to capture any UI element of Sage300 application.

Can someone pls help in how to execute PAD as Administrator when it is called from Power Automate cloud flow

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Gematria 222 on at

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If the user you use for your connections have Admin rights it should be fine. Make sure to double check that, if you haven't already 🙂

If that is in order, you could try setting UIFlowService.exe in your PAD folder (usually found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Power Automate Desktop) to run as admin. Haven't tried this myself, but might be worth a shot. Make sure to reboot the Machine afterwards.

I had issues capturing UI elements of an Oracle application when running unattended, and I sorted this by setting
Microsoft.Flow.RPA.UIFlowService.ScreenDefaultResolutionEnabled to true
In the UIFlowService.exe.config - might also be worth a shot.
alokbgs 12 on at

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Thanks @Gematria for your response. The credential which we are using to connect to machine have Admin right. But we are getting below error when try to run UIFlowService as administrator
Gematria 222 on at

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Hi.
You wont be able to run it directly as Admin because its a Windows Service, but if you right click -> properties -> compatibility -> run as administrator, then reboot the Machine and try it out 🙂

Again, not sure if it will solve your specific issue, but doesn't hurt to try.
It could also be some Group Policy settings/Security settings on your device that doesn't allow the uiflowservice proper access.

Could you perhaps share a bit of your code as well as the exact fault you are experiencing?
alokbgs 12 on at

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Sage300 application is run as administrator and PAD not able to capture UI elements when not run as administrator. So we run PAD as Administrator and capture the UI element. It is just 2 step PAD to login to Sage300 application. When we run PAD manually it is working fine. But when we call it from cloud flow it fails to find the UI element.
yoko2020 495 on at

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@alokbgs

I also have same issue long time ago from January 2021, and they have not fix this after almost 1 year.
Just pray the developer will fix this issue, currently there is no solution for this.
alokbgs 12 on at

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@yoko2020 , is this known PAD issue and MS aware of same. Any idea?
tyago14 2 on at

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Hi,

I was having the same problem, I disabled UAC completely from windows and it worked