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Hi,

Does anyone have any advice on how to resolve an issue with the PAD flow not being able to select the window to populate a textbox?

We run this PAD flow unattended from a scheduled cloud flow, and it is working on one machine-runtime. I'm in the process of migrating to a second VM to run on and since changing the connection the flow is failing.

UI Selector: (Test works on original VM, on second VM that parent selector is not found)

UI Test fails on new VM:

The window trying to write to:

Error Details:

Problem while executing action 'PopulateTextField'. Failed to write in textbox (failed to get window)

Microsoft.PowerPlatform.PowerAutomate.Desktop.Actions.SDK.ActionException: Failed to write in textbox (failed to get window) ---> Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.UIAutomation.Common.Exceptions.WindowNotFoundException: Exception of type 'Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.UIAutomation.Common.Exceptions.WindowNotFoundException' was thrown.
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.UIAutomation.Common.WindowContainers.FindWindowWithException(Func`1 getWindow, String windowSelector, Boolean bringToFront)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.UIAutomation.Common.Proxy.LocalAutomationRuntime.PopulateTextFieldInWindow(UIRuntimeElement element, String textToFillIn, Int32 operationMode, Int32 mouseOperationMode)
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.UIAutomation.Common.Proxy.UIAutomationRuntimeRouter.Invoke(MethodInfo targetMethod, Object[] args)
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at System.Reflection.DispatchProxyGenerator.Invoke(Object[] args)
--- End of remote exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.UIAutomation.Common.Proxy.RemoteAutomationRuntimeProxy.Invoke(MethodInfo targetMethod, Object[] args)
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at System.Reflection.DispatchProxyGenerator.Invoke(Object[] args)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.UIAutomation.Actions.PopulateTextFieldInWindow.<Execute>b__17_0(IAutomationRuntime r, UIRuntimeElement e)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.UIAutomation.Common.UIAutomationActionBase.PerformAutomation(Action`2 action, UIControl control, Boolean logAction)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.UIAutomation.Actions.PopulateTextFieldInWindow.Execute(ActionContext context)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.UIAutomation.Actions.PopulateTextFieldInWindow.Execute(ActionContext context)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Robin.Engine.Execution.ActionRunner.Run(IActionStatement statement, Dictionary`2 inputArguments, Dictionary`2 outputArguments)