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Hi,
I am running an uattended power automate desktop flow that is triggered from a cloud flow and everything works up until the DESKTOP Flow Run - i have tested the desktop flow in attended mode and it runs however it fails when running unattended.

I have tried adding wait into the flows but that hasn't seem to have helped.

I am getting the below error:

"Problem while executing action 'ExtractTable'. Failed to extract data (web page error while extracting data).

Microsoft.PowerPlatform.PowerAutomate.Desktop.Actions.SDK.ActionException: Failed to extract data (web page error while extracting data). ---> System.Exception: Data extraction element not found.
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.WebAutomation.Core.DataExtraction.LegacyExtractorBase`1.GetExtractionResults(Stopwatch stopwatch, Nullable`1 timeout)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.WebAutomation.Core.DataExtraction.LegacyExtractorBase`1.InvokeExtraction(Nullable`1 timeout)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.WebAutomation.Core.DataExtraction.LegacyExtractorBase`1.Extract(Nullable`1 timeout)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Common.DataExtraction.Engine.WebDataExtractionEngine`1.AttemptExtraction(ICollection`1 resultsList, WebActionRetryParameters retryParameters, Int32 attempts, Nullable`1 timeout)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Common.DataExtraction.Engine.WebDataExtractionEngine`1.<>c__DisplayClass4_0.<ExtractElementData>b__1(Int32 attempts)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.Core.Utilities.Clock.Execute[T](TimeSpan timeout, TimeSpan period, Func`1 action, Func`2 successCondition)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Common.ClockActionPeriodicRunner.Run(Func`2 func, TimeSpan pediod)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Common.WebPager.WebPageEnumerator.ForEachPage(IWebAutomationBrowser browser, WebPagerParameters pagerParameters, WebActionRetryParameters navigationRetryParameters, Action action)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Common.DataExtraction.Engine.WebDataExtractionEngine`1.ExtractElementData(IWebAutomationBrowser browser, WebPagerParameters pagerParameters, WebActionRetryParameters retryParameters, Nullable`1 timeout)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Common.Proxy.LocalWebAutomationRuntime.ExtractTableFromWebPage(WebBrowserInfo webBrowserInfo, IEnumerable`1 extractionSelectors, String baseCssSelector, WebPagerParameters pagerParameters, WebActionRetryParameters retryParameters, Nullable`1 timeout)
--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Common.Proxy.WebAutomationRuntimeRouter.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 generatedProxy_3.ExtractTableFromWebPage(WebBrowserInfo , IEnumerable`1 , String , WebPagerParameters , WebActionRetryParameters , Nullable`1 )
--- End of remote exception stack trace ---
at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.Shared.Rpc.RpcDispatchProxy`1.GetRemoteResultOrThrow(RemoteMethodCallResponse response, Type expectedResultType)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.UIAutomation.Shared.Rpc.RpcDispatchProxy`1.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 generatedProxy_1.ExtractTableFromWebPage(WebBrowserInfo , IEnumerable`1 , String , WebPagerParameters , WebActionRetryParameters , Nullable`1 )
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.WebAutomationRuntimeServiceProxy.<>c__DisplayClass15_0.<ExtractTableFromWebPage>b__0(IWebAutomationRuntime s)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.WebAutomationRuntimeServiceProxy.ExecuteSafe[T](Func`2 action, TimeSpan timeout)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.WebAutomationRuntimeServiceProxy.ExtractTableFromWebPage(WebBrowserInfo webBrowserInfo, IEnumerable`1 extractionSelectors, String baseCssSelector, WebPagerParameters pagerParameters, WebActionRetryParameters retryParameters, Nullable`1 timeout)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.ExtractData.<Execute>b__53_3(IWebAutomationRuntime s)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.WebAutomationActionBase.PerformWebAutomationWithLogging[T](Func`2 action, WebAutomationRuntimeLogData requestData, Func`3 resultData)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.ExtractData.Execute(ActionContext context)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Modules.WebAutomation.Actions.ExtractData.Execute(ActionContext context)
at Microsoft.Flow.RPA.Desktop.Robin.Engine.Execution.ActionRunner.Run(IActionStatement statement, Dictionary`2 inputArguments, Dictionary`2 outputArguments)

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