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Posted on by rpatinopty 21

I have been working a flow was able to asign values to UI elements on a Windows form but I was only able to move through the fields with the send keys command and the TAB value, worked for a while but now I need to move to a UI element which I cant get with the sending TAB key.

 

I have tried Click the UI element, Focus text field in Window, Populate text fiel in Window, Send Mouse Click but nothing works, it always send any value to the current UI element that has the focus not the one I want to.

 

Any help or Ideas are wellcome

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  • eetuRobo Profile Picture
    eetuRobo 4,579 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Can you show screenshots of your flow? Your UI elements might have changed when it last opened the UI.

    If you use the Test button on the UI element does that find the element or give error or yellow symbol which indicates that there would be multiple similar UI elements so PAD is not sure which to click.

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    Sometimes also the Record -function can work well if you haven't tried it yet.

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  • rpatinopty Profile Picture
    rpatinopty 21 on at

    Tried with the test UI elements it is not giving any error, can you provide paid support?

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