Saving Screenshots to a Specific Folder

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Posted on by pnjapa98

Hi I am trying to build a flow that would run at around the same time each business day:

1. login to this website using my credentials

2. click on tab 1 of this website

3. Take a screenshot of the webpage data

4. Save the screenshot image in a specific folder with a specific title but the current date?

I am having trouble with 4.,

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ryule 929 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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This should take care of step 4

Format the date however you want it, but obviously has to work as a part of a file name.

Here's the code:
DateTime.GetCurrentDateTime.Local DateTimeFormat: DateTime.DateTimeFormat.DateAndTime CurrentDateTime=> CurrentDateTime
Text.ConvertDateTimeToText.FromCustomDateTime DateTime: CurrentDateTime CustomFormat: $'''_yyyMMdd''' Result=> FormattedDateTime
Workstation.TakeScreenshot.TakeScreenshotAndSaveToFile File: $'''C:\\Test\\pic%FormattedDateTime%.jpg''' ImageFormat: System.ImageFormat.Jpg
pnjapa98 10 on at

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Thank you, would this work for web page screenshots. It seems to keep failing.
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I am not sure what this means exactly
ryule 929 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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It looks like you haven't properly selected your CurrentDateTime variable. Go into the Action and make sure it is surrounded by percent signs.......%CurrentDateTime%
MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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Here is an article on how to create your own date variables to use inside of PAD:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-automate-desktop-pad-best-practices-part-1-date-michael-annis

You shouldn't have a problem after this.

Mainly, you have the right idea, but format the date to text first, then you can string it with another variable:

Covert date to text %CurrentDateTime% to MM.dd.yy and save as %FormattedDateTime%

Set variable %NewFileName% As Market View DUS %FormattedDateTime%

'use %NewFileName% in the screenshot action

If it is still not working, please show us the inside of the screenshot action.

Thanks,

Mike