Hey Dave, I totally agree with you. I'm currently learning power automate desktop for office tasks and the recorder feature is absolutely useful and easy to use and helps me learn things quickly.
That's strange. It should be available for everyone. There certainly would be early versions that didn't have it I think, but it has been around for years I believe, so you'd have to have a very old version to not see it. Are you sure it's not there? When you make the window kind of small, it shows as a circle with a dot inside it like a target.
Dave, any time I try to select a UI element using the picker, I get stuck with a perpetual "Wait for action" message. In other words, I'm not able to capture any UI elements. Terribly frustrating. Any idea why?
@@mytciopinfo My first thought would be to check if the target application is running with elevated privileges which can cause it to not work. Otherwise, I don't know without being able to reproduce it myself. PAD has given me various frustrating issues so it isn't surprising.
Hi, at the moment, I don't do any side work. I work on a team that uses Blue Prism internally within the company, so I'm technically not really even a consultant right now. If you have any questions, you could send me messages on LinkedIn. I don't mind answering some questions here and there.
@@DaveTheRPAGuy Hey! I appreciate your response. I'm not sure I wanna bother you in that way. I know exactly what I want to automate and I have tools such as RTILA and Robomotion at my disposal. I just don't know how to use them exactly in order to achieve my desired outcomes. I think I will just learn as I go. If you have any recommended resources for newbies applicaple to RPA in general, those would be much appreciated. Wish you all the best sir!
PLS HELP: everytime i use the recorder, the window that im using responds to my clicks, so when power automate adds it and clicks again, that messes everything up. How do i make it so that this doesnt happen??
What do you mean by adds it and clicks again? I would say the recorder feature is something to just move on from if you're having issues with it. I think it's fine to use, but I would still say you'll come out with a better automation if you design the click by click yourself and choose which actions to use.
@@DaveTheRPAGuy um, that is what i tried first (just making the automations manually) but for some reason, when i use the move mouse, in some programes like roblox, it doesnt register, which means that when i click il be clicking in the exact same spot. this problem is with many automation apps, and the only one that i found that works is a location based autoclicker.
@@BarkBark790 To move the cursor/mouse properly in stuff like video games especially that are 3D and change your perspective as the movement happens, you have to do a sort of relative mouse movement. When I tried this before, I found it couldn't really be done properly without custom C# to make it happen.
I would say that most captchas cannot be solved natively by PAD. You'd need to screenshot it, send it to a captcha solver by API, and get the response back.
Hmm...It's still working for me. I would try removing and re-adding the extension. And of course I'd restart the computer to verify if that'll solve it or not.
Hey Dave, I totally agree with you. I'm currently learning power automate desktop for office tasks and the recorder feature is absolutely useful and easy to use and helps me learn things quickly.
Same here, Thanks Dave🙂
this video was really gaving me the solution to fix issue. thanks so much. already took me few days to fix that annoying issue.
Hi Dave, I do not see recorder on my Power Automate. Was it removed? Or does it depend what version I have? Thanks
That's strange. It should be available for everyone. There certainly would be early versions that didn't have it I think, but it has been around for years I believe, so you'd have to have a very old version to not see it. Are you sure it's not there? When you make the window kind of small, it shows as a circle with a dot inside it like a target.
Dave, any time I try to select a UI element using the picker, I get stuck with a perpetual "Wait for action" message. In other words, I'm not able to capture any UI elements. Terribly frustrating. Any idea why?
@@mytciopinfo My first thought would be to check if the target application is running with elevated privileges which can cause it to not work. Otherwise, I don't know without being able to reproduce it myself. PAD has given me various frustrating issues so it isn't surprising.
Dave, how can I get in touch with you sir? Do you take on clients or coaching students?
Hi, at the moment, I don't do any side work. I work on a team that uses Blue Prism internally within the company, so I'm technically not really even a consultant right now.
If you have any questions, you could send me messages on LinkedIn. I don't mind answering some questions here and there.
@@DaveTheRPAGuy Hey! I appreciate your response. I'm not sure I wanna bother you in that way. I know exactly what I want to automate and I have tools such as RTILA and Robomotion at my disposal. I just don't know how to use them exactly in order to achieve my desired outcomes. I think I will just learn as I go. If you have any recommended resources for newbies applicaple to RPA in general, those would be much appreciated. Wish you all the best sir!
PLS HELP: everytime i use the recorder, the window that im using responds to my clicks, so when power automate adds it and clicks again, that messes everything up. How do i make it so that this doesnt happen??
What do you mean by adds it and clicks again? I would say the recorder feature is something to just move on from if you're having issues with it. I think it's fine to use, but I would still say you'll come out with a better automation if you design the click by click yourself and choose which actions to use.
@@DaveTheRPAGuy um, that is what i tried first (just making the automations manually) but for some reason, when i use the move mouse, in some programes like roblox, it doesnt register, which means that when i click il be clicking in the exact same spot. this problem is with many automation apps, and the only one that i found that works is a location based autoclicker.
@@BarkBark790 To move the cursor/mouse properly in stuff like video games especially that are 3D and change your perspective as the movement happens, you have to do a sort of relative mouse movement. When I tried this before, I found it couldn't really be done properly without custom C# to make it happen.
Hi Dave,
Can you help me how can I read and type the capche using Power Automate Desktop OCR but it is reading only Text not the numbers and symbols.
I would say that most captchas cannot be solved natively by PAD. You'd need to screenshot it, send it to a captcha solver by API, and get the response back.
Is your extension working after the latest PAD upgrade? The recorder isn't recognizing it, any tips?
Hmm...It's still working for me. I would try removing and re-adding the extension. And of course I'd restart the computer to verify if that'll solve it or not.
Huh, didn't know the recorder could pick images