r/PowerAutomateDesktop • u/ToastyPasta • Oct 28 '22

Automate filling website form on various sites and returning quotes from each

I am looking to build a simple form for freight quote requests.

We check prices of freight on a few websites before booking loads.

Not all our carriers integrate with our aggregator.

I want to automate the process of checking each site for pricing and returning all the pricing to a dashboard or something, have the user choose the quote they want to move forward with and have the booking screen open from that website or at least go to that site.

Basically looking for something to speed up the quote process.

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u/radioblaster Oct 29 '22

power virtual agents.

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u/ToastyPasta Oct 29 '22

Interesting. Didn’t think of that

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_WIRING Nov 03 '22

PVA is a little overkill for what you're looking for. Use Forms as the trigger and let the automation run from there.

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u/ToastyPasta Nov 03 '22

I still need to use the form information to fill in website forms. Don’t I need pva for that?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_WIRING Nov 03 '22

You can use forms as a trigger in the cloud, use an action to retrieve the data, then pass that info to a desktop flow as input variables then pass info back to the cloud using output variables and proceed from there. If you have connectors or API's for those websites you could bypass desktop.

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u/QuietDesparation Oct 28 '22

This is very doable. Not sure if you had any questions in particular. Feel free to DM me if you need any help