How to deal with a sudden logout on a website?

[chris72]

Hi there,

I've been using Power Automate Desktop for about 2 weeks now to fill out a multi-page, extensive web form. I have always changed and expanded my flow for this. Filling out text fields, uploading files, marking checkboxes, etc. all of this works quite well by now. Although I need help now.

It happens very rarely, but the website that this form is on sometimes suddenly and unexpectedly logs me out. That prevents me from really leaving it unattended. So I need a way to be able to log in again at any time and then continue the flow.

As soon as you are logged out, the "login dialog" appears, in which my user is already selected. All I have to do is enter my password (or select the data stored in the browser) and click on Log in. I think its easy to handle the login dialog once it appears... But how do I prepare PAD to handle this at ANY time?

Hopefully one of you can explain to me how to do this. Where do I have to enter what and how do I start?

Thanks for the help! 😀

Chris

[MichaelAnnis]

There is an "If web element exists" action.  So:

If password element exists, run login steps to get back to web form entry

End (IF)

Complete web form.

Have this before every web form entry, and it might add 1/2 a second to each one, but it will solve your problem.

Best of luck!

[chris72]

Thank you for your answer Michael!

As I said, the logout rarely occurs. Sometimes I work with it for several hours and don't even see the login dialog. When the login dialog was last displayed, I immediately made a few notes. Window names, texts on the page, names of the fields, etc. I can use that now...

My flow currently has about 80 steps. Should I really incorporate this If-Then every 5 or 10 steps?

That would be like repeating CSS, header, footer and sidebar over and over again instead of outsourcing it. That sure works, but is it nice?

Is there no central, one-off solution for this?

Thanks for your help!

Chris

[MichaelAnnis · Accepted solution]

You could make loggin in an error subflow.  So, you set up a subflow that says:

Enter password, click submit button

And then you wrap the rest of your flow in an On Error Block.

And you point the error block to the OnErrorSubflow.

[chris72]

Thank you Michael!

that's 2 options I can play with. One of them will sure do it. 😀

Chris