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Drop-down list with selector & Form field with selector Input Errors

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I have a desktop flow that has a series of UI inputs for "Populate text field on Webpage" and "Set drop-down list value on web page." It keeps randomly giving me an error but on different parts each time and after a different amount of loops, the data its reading from excel and inputting is identical for each row same drop down values and dates for all the populate text inputs. Whenever it errors I restart it and it works fine on the same one it just had an error on, but means I have to constantly watch it rather than leave it running any ideas ? Example error log below

 

Populate Text

 

Form field with selector 'html > body > div:eq(3) > div > div:eq(1) > div > div:eq(2) > div:eq(2) > div > table > tbody > tr:eq(5) > td:eq(8) > input' not found.

 

Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.SDK.ActionException: Form field with selector 'html > body > div:eq(3) > div > div:eq(1) > div > div:eq(2) > div:eq(2) > div > table > tbody > tr:eq(5) > td:eq(8) > input' not found. ---> Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.Exceptions.ElementNotFoundException: Exception of type 'Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.Exceptions.ElementNotFoundException' was thrown.
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.WebAutomationResultExtensions.ThrowIfError(WebAutomationResult result, String cssSelector, String option)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.PopulateTextFieldBase.Execute(ActionContext context)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.PopulateTextFieldBase.Execute(ActionContext context)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Robin.Engine.Execution.ActionRunner.Run(IActionStatement statement, Dictionary`2 inputArguments, Dictionary`2 outputArguments)

 

I can't seem to see any pattern or reason why sometimes it may do 150 lines before error other times 2....

 

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