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Applications in Power Automate Desktop

Paylook, a big payroll consulting company, needs help automating business applications.

Anders Jensen Automation & AI Instructor

Intro

Paylook, a big payroll consulting company, needs help automating business applications.

What you will learn

  • Primarily:
    • Open applications
    • Automate applications
    • Dynamic selectors
    • Close applications
  • Secondarily:
    • String manipulation

Client Name

Paylook

Process Name

Applications

Description

A high-profile payroll consulting company needs your help automating its favorite application.

  • Open the Windows Calculator Application (we use this because everyone have it installed and because the solution are the same in simple and advanced applications)
  • Make a dynamic solution that
    • Take two numbers from the user (Display input dialog x 2)
    • Make addition of the two numbers using the Windows Calculator
    • Scrape the result and write it in a log message
    • Close the application
  • Advanced
    • Read the Excel data
    • Do the calculation for each row and write the result back into the Excel sheet

Hints

  • Run application
    • Find the path by looking in C:WindowsSystem32
  • Display Input
    • Store it in a variable
  • Display Input
    • Store it in another variable
  • Click UI element in window to click on C and clear whatever might be on the calculator
  • Click UI element in window
    • Make a dynamic selector with the first variable
  • Click UI element in window to click the + sign
  • Click UI element in window
    • Make a dynamic selector with the second variable
  • Click UI element to click the equal sign
  • Extract data from window to scrape the result and store it into a variable
  • Get subtext to remove the 'Display is '
  • Display message to display the result
  • Terminate process to close an app

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