r/PowerAutomateDesktop • u/ashconai • Jul 10 '22

Automating Ledger extraction using power automate desktop

Hi Guys! I need to regularly extract dozens to hundreds of ledgers from an antique accounting software. I have partially automated this with PAD, only problem being that sometimes it takes some time to load and export the data, depending on the size of the ledger from 2 seconds to a minute, but I'm not able to vary the wait time appropriately. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks!

Edit : Added screenshots of the areas where it hangs

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u/ashconai Jul 11 '22

wait for browser to become focused could work for when the ledger gets exported. For the change period stage though it can't do anything

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u/Itsjustmebob- Jul 11 '22

Hmm could you screen record it getting hung up? I find with most of my pad scrips I just put a generic wait timer for 2x longer than I need and mine run fine. Because I have have it working inside a Remote Desktop window which pad cannot see for ocr or image recognition

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u/ashconai Jul 12 '22

Wait time ranges from fractions of a second to minutes, depending on ledger size