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Question #: 4
Topic #: 9
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You need to capture the Date Completed value from the website using a desktop flow.
Which method should you use?

  • A. Use optical character recognition (OCR) on the screen to locate and extract the value.
  • B. Display an input dialog and prompt the user to enter the value.
  • C. Extract the value from the window the browser is using.
  • D. Retrieve the value from the HTML element in the webpage.
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Suggested Answer: D 🗳️

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RichXP
Highly Voted 1 year, 9 months ago
Selected Answer: D
because website UI changes frequently, so look for html more reliable.
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AliceWang
1 year, 8 months ago
Could we say "look for html" is low-code/no-code? Because it mentioned: "This means that any customizations and automation created for this project must be low-code/no-code for the power users to implement them."
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HTS
Most Recent 2 months ago
Selected Answer: C
Both C and D are correct but I think that MS wants to point us to the fact that with the ‘Extract data from webpage’ action we do NOT need know about HTML at all, we just select the value in the 'window the browser is currently using' -> I go for ‘C’ See https://penbotrpa.com/2024/06/20/extract-data-from-web-page-using-power-automate-desktop/
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Doyne
3 months, 1 week ago
I think B, display an input dialog. This is a low code/no code project with no professional developers, only citizen developers. Some manual clerical work is expected, they can't automate everything.
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61be873
6 months, 2 weeks ago
c using Selenium
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MrEz
8 months, 3 weeks ago
c) That's what desktop flow is for. d) it is not the idea to do html scraping with desktop flow, i guess
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MrEz
8 months, 2 weeks ago
difficult: i have seen that you could get the content of html tags (parsing) and this would be the best way if the website changes frequently. however this stands in contradiction with lowcode/nocode. I would assume that such a user doesn't even know what parsing means. and, most probably, after you have found the text might typecast it into a date(and time) value?!
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MrEz
8 months, 2 weeks ago
assumption: the date comes from this external website. Maybe it is even B: as it changes often, an attended UI flow? just because i read the reason for the answer given...?! Record the name of the QV team member who performed the work and the date completed.
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MrEz
8 months, 2 weeks ago
I go for A) --> fits low code / no code and is robust against changes on the placment of the website. d) low code no code --> html scraping too difficult. still some potential of background restructuring... even though i believe the tagnames ect to be more stable.. (but IT is the business of making seconds into days billed.) c) possibly frequent changes and you would have to adopt the ui flow all the time... a) too time-consuming for the user. try to automate as much as possible.
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MrEz
8 months, 3 weeks ago
evaluate a qualification means 1 qualification --> i opted for condtion. if ever it means that you should evaluate all available qualifications per service request to send the email until every qualification is complete, it is do until. I think they mean all not 'a' qualification
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Agnes202307
9 months, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: D
D. Retrieve the value from the HTML element in the webpage. This method involves directly interacting with the HTML structure of the webpage and extracting the required information from the specific HTML element that holds the "Date Completed" value. It is a more reliable and structured approach compared to other methods like OCR or user input dialogs.
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Skada
1 year, 7 months ago
Selected Answer: D
D. Retrieve the value from the HTML element in the webpage.
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Ikhalil
1 year, 7 months ago
D. Retrieve the value from the HTML element in the webpage.
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Rod_Beka
2 years ago
I would select D. Both seems to work, but "D" seems more accurate. "When you search for web automation actions, you’ll notice that you’ll get a few actions for web extraction that sound similar: Extract data from web page: to extract a single value, or it can be a table as well Get details of element on web page: to only extract the detail of a particular element – such as in this case, where we want to just extract the temperature number of an element.” https://mspowerautomate.com/how-to-scrape-data-from-web-pages-in-microsoft-power-automate-desktop/#:~:text=How%20to%20Extract%20Data%20from%20Web%20Pages%20in,Display%20the%20temperature%20in%20a%20message%20box%20
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dieuga
1 year, 11 months ago
I think it should be C, because "The authority website UI changes frequently because the company constantly improves the user experience" meaning the HTML could break if the website is updated
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Skada
1 year, 7 months ago
D still looks more appropriate in this case. UI element location may change because of frequent UI changes; however element name will not change and would be easier to fetch.
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niel93
2 years, 1 month ago
This question was on Sept 24th Scored 712 Selected C
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Nyanne
2 years, 1 month ago
C is the only option that makes sense.. However there is a prebuilt action to get current date and time. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/actions-reference/datetime#getcurrentdatetime
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