Issue with Type Into activity not deleting input box properly

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Hello everyone,

in a couple of our workflows we’ve noticed a strange behavior when entering a server address. The Type Into activity sometimes deletes the already typed text and immediately refills the input box, which then results in a wrong address being entered.

Most of the time, everything works as intended, especially when we’re using strict selectors. The problem mainly comes up when strict selectors aren’t possible and we have to rely on image selectors.

What we also see quite often (more often than we’d like) is that the input box is not fully cleared before the robot starts typing the new text. That means some characters from the old value remain and get mixed with the new text, leading to an incorrect address.

Has anyone else experienced this issue and maybe found the reason behind it?

Thanks in advance!

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If you want that the all the text present in the textbox should be cleared then select the ctrl+del option or if you want to delete only the single line then use the single line option and if you don’t want the bot to delete the text already present then select None option

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Cheers

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@kevin.gajic,

What is the Input Method of the Type Into activity? I feel this could be due to Input method and empty field before typing property configurations.

Try this setup

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For “Empty field before typing” I have it set to single Line.
And Input Mode Simulate.
I will try your Idea. Thank you! Highly appreciated.

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Thank you. I am aware.