If you're wondering why you need dynamic selectors in Microsoft Power Automate for Desktop, here's why:

Have you encountered scenarios where your desktop automation stops working because of some changes in the UI?

For example, some names could change (or get updated) every time you enter a transaction or run your flow.

In this video, we show you how you can work around this problem by making the selectors of the affected UI element dynamic. (We also made another video on dynamic selectors for web automation/browser:    • How to create a Dynamic Selector (Web...  )

Check out the video and learn how to configure dynamic selectors for desktop apps!

00:00 Introduction
00:36 Step-by-step of the task to automate
01:04 Start of automation
02:24 Situations where dynamic selector may be needed
03:22 Making the selector dynamic
06:05 Add UI element to click on “Accounts” tab
10:42 Extracting Account ID from the desktop app

This video assumes some prior knowledge:
Excel automation (read from Excel, get first free row, etc.):    • Power Automate Desktop Excel Automati...  
UI automation (select UI elements, retrieving values from Excel and populating it in the app, etc.):    • How to Interact with Windows and Appl...  

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