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Software ==>	Power Automate Desktop (18 exercises)
Topic ==>	Browsing websites (1 exercise)
Level ==>	Relatively easy
Subject ==>	Power Automate and PAD training

Create a flow to search Google for a phrase that you type into a box

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The aim of this exercise is to run a search for a specific string of text in Google. Start by creating a flow called Run a Google search, then use an input box to find what you're going to search for:

Capture your search text in a variable.

Add an action to start your favourite browser, going to the Google home page within it:

The familiar Google search box.

Add UI elements for the search box and the search button:

Initially you'll see something like this.

Give these elements better (more meaningful) names:

You can include spaces in UI element names.

Add commands to go to the search box and type in your search string:

If you leave the Emulate typing option chosen for the second action you can watch Power Automate Desktop typing in text!

You now realise that the easiest way to proceed is to just press Enter (or at least, use a Send keys action to mimic this). Add this action, then delete any UI elements you're not using:

The quickest way to remove UI elements that you're not using.

Run your flow to check that it works!

You may get an astonishingly high number of results, depending on your search string.

Edit your search text box UI element to see if you can make its definition a bit more forgiving:

Edit the search text box.

Choose to look at the selector path:

Click on the three dots to show the Selector builder dialog box for this UI element.

See if you can whittle the selector path down a bit. From this:

The original path will look something like this.

To more like this:

The final, (too?) simple selector path.

Test to see if your revised flow still works (it should).

A final thought: have you made your flow more or less robust?

Save this flow and close it down.

You can unzip this file to see the answers to this exercise, although please remember this is for your personal use only. Our Power Automate exercises answers are provided as text files - you can see how to assemble these back into PAD flows here.

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