Selectors in Power Automate for desktop
Intro You made it: The national RPA team coach called you and you’re representing your country in the Olympics. Let’s prepare. What you will learn Primarily: Advanced selector work Browser automation Secondarily: Get data from Excel Optimize the performance of your robots Client Name National RPA team coach Process Name RPAChallengeDemo Description Solve the RPA Challenge […]
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Intro
You made it: The national RPA team coach called you and you're representing your country in the Olympics. Let's prepare.What you will learn
- Primarily:
- Advanced selector work
- Browser automation
- Secondarily:
- Get data from Excel
- Optimize the performance of your robots
Client Name
National RPA team coachProcess Name
RPAChallengeDemoDescription
Solve the RPA Challenge in Microsoft Power Automate for desktop.Hints
- Inspect the data set. Do we need to optimize it now or in the robot?
- Inspect the UI elements (text fields) on the webpage
- They change, how to solve that?
- Launch Excel and a browser (e.g. Edge)
- Get first free column/row in Excel
- Read from Excel worksheet
- Press button on web page (Start button)
- Problem?
- For each
- Populate text field on web page
- Open the developer tools in the browser and change the selector accordingly
- Populate text field on web page
- Close Excel
- Advanced (speed optimization)
- Open the actions
- Untick Wait for page to load
- Untick Emulate typing
- Open the actions