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Hello everybody!

I am having problems with a desktop flow. The flow does exactly what it is supposed to do, but it is incredibly slow in selecting a drop-down option after the drop-down has been displayed by right-clicking on the pane.
Is there a trick here to get the whole thing to work faster, or is that just the way it is unfortunately?

Many thanks in advance!
Max

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Gidi 601 on at

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Hi Max, what means incredible slow? 30 seconds/minutes? Often it‘s a time-out of an selector which is handled to continue with the flow nevertheless.
Can you share some details of the involved flow actions and error handling?

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Thamedio 9 on at

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Hello Gidi, thank you for your reply. The step in the flow needs 15-20 seconds to react.
For simplicity, i recorded the flow with the PA-window visible. If i can provide any more information let me know.
https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/635f49de-8998-4695-9381-660742f1d506

Best regards!

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Gidi 601 on at

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Thanks, but the video seems not to be available to me. Can you share screenshots from the flow actions you use?

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Thamedio 9 on at

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Hey Gidi, sorry for that. I tried uploading it to drive. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dqfV4XXDrtDZGrETS2l11YvEK6_tNLmF/view?usp=sharing

Alternatively i made a screenshot. (In contrary to the vid, i braught all actions up to the main flow)

The flow has its hiccup at step 9. Since i did not see an option to set the whole thing to english, i hope the screenshot is understandable anyways.

Thanks in advance!

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Gidi 601 on at

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Hi Max,
it seems that there is no obvious reason for any slow reaction, if the application is as fast as used manually.

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Thamedio 9 on at

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Hey Gidi, it is defninitely not. But it works i guess. Ty for your engagement 🙂

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ryule 929 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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I noticed in the 2.23 release notes that they talked about drop down performance; maybe it'll help you out! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/released-versions/power-automate-desktop/2208.1

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