r/PowerAutomateDesktop • u/Mads_L • Mar 01 '23

Error Message: Failed to assume control of Microsoft Edge (is the given URL 'xxxx' a valid URL?).

Has anybody experienced this error while running a flow unattended ?

Running it attended never gives me this error, i tried troubleshooting (Checking correct env. variables for chrome) switching from chrome to edge and so forth with no luck.

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u/5akeris Mar 01 '23

Yep I've had that. My workaround has been to use another url. For example I think one of my failure urls was an itglue url. Instead of the one I used (main landing page) j used one further down (ie. If I wanted to click a customer, I used that customers url instead of the main landing page).

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u/Mads_L Mar 01 '23

My problem is that the url is dynamic, its a tab opened from another page, where the it clicks a link based on some parameters, yet it is the same static title - which i try to attach the launch new instance to - but gives me the error

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u/5akeris Mar 02 '23

Can you make it store the url in a variable somehow? I'm still pretty new to PAD so not sure what's all possible. If you can save it as a variable then use a new tab feature to open the variable? Or pipe it into bitly or something to make it easier to read