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Power Automate Desktop - Excel Consolidation and Summary Automation

PAD Overall Goal You are automating a process to: Collect all Excel files ( .xlsx ) from a folder (including subfolders). Combine their data into one master table. Calculate total and average sales by region ( North, South, East, West ). Save everything in a new consolidated Excel file with two sheets: One sheet with all raw data Another sheet with summarized regional totals and averages Download the sample files from the below link Power-Automate-Desktop Samples Power Automate Desktop – Pseudo Code Explanation This Power Automate Desktop (PAD) pseudo code automates the process of consolidating Excel files and calculating total and average sales by region. Below is the plain English explanation of each step and why it’s performed: 1. Get all Excel files: The flow searches through the folder E:\Power Platform\PAD\Samples (including subfolders) to collect every Excel file with the extension .x...

Use Case: Automating Quarter Close Transaction Reviews with Power Automate

PA Quarter Close – Review Transactions Power Automate Use Case for Finance Teams The finance department of Peters Manufacturing needs your help. At the end of each fiscal quarter, the finance team spends significant time on an important task ,ensuring that all financial obligations were invoiced on time, paid on time, and cleared within the expected period. Using Power Automate , this repetitive verification process can be automated to save time and improve accuracy when validating transaction data between the internal finance system and the Arcadia Banking application. Note: You can view the challenge at the link below. Automation Anywhere Labs - Quarter Close Challenge It will ask you to log in. Use the Community Login option and sign up for a new account if needed. Enter your Gmail or any other email address to sign in. Before running the flow, make sure you are logged in to the site. Use C...

Dynamic UI Selector in Power Automate Desktop

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We’ll look at how to select a UI element from a web form when its ID changes every time the form is loaded. Go to https://rpachallenge.com/ and download the Excel file. First, I’ll explain how to capture the element and make the selector dynamic. Consider that we've launched the RPA Challenge website in Power Automate Desktop (PAD). After adding the Populate text field on web page action, click Add UI element . Open this tab in Microsoft Edge. Select the First Name text box. It will be captured using its ID , but since the ID changes each time, replace it with a unique HTML attribute. For this website, the attribute ng-reflect-name is unique and can be used instead. After selecting the element, turn on the Text Editor toggle in the selector window. Then replace the existing selector with: input[ng-reflect-name="labelFirstName"] You can find this attribute value by inspecting the element in the brows...