From the course: Learning Power Automate Desktop for Non-Developers
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Build custom selectors - Power Automate Desktop Tutorial
From the course: Learning Power Automate Desktop for Non-Developers
Build custom selectors
- [Instructor] Sometimes it's not even enough to create a dynamic selector. Sometimes webpages might have elements that are repetitive, however, after a certain set of repetitions, those element change. Now, Microsoft Power Automate Desktop has thought about solution for that as well. If we click on the previous selector that we have created in a previous process, we created a dynamic selector with a variable inside of it. However, there is one more option that is available for us to do. We can create a copy of this selector. Therefore, if the location or if the CSS changes on the webpage where our selector is, we would be able to first try the initial selector and after that, try and run the second selector. To give an example, if we opened the webpage that we were automating previously, if we had a different location of this button only in certain events and in specific cases, we would have to spy this button again…
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