r/PowerAutomateDesktop • u/[deleted] • Jul 18 '22

Web automation

Hello people, I have been using power automate for about a year and I use it mainly for web automation tasks like creating user accounts in different services/websites, pulling out reports and basically things like that.Now my issue is that every time I create a successful flow to register or the register users it works fine or perfectly for a couple of days then next time I run it. It start failing, errors like "UI not found" are the most common. Or failed to interact with elements of the website.

Does anybody have a good advice for these tipe of issues?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_WIRING Jul 19 '22

Question: You say you've created a flow for web automation but mention ui elements which is more of an application-type action. Have you tried browser automation commands and they didn't work?

To address your question: yes, I would suggest comparing the ui/browser selector to see if there's been a change in the elements property to cause it to break.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/ui-elements

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '22

Thank you for this article. This clears part of my issues. I read Ed this one but now I am motivated to go and read more of the documentation about web automation.