Copying variable value to users clipboard

[Anonymous]

We have a situation where we would like to store the value of a variable to the clipboard of user that is executing the flow. So we are talking about the Windows clipboard here and not the clipboard feature in Flow (which I run into a lot when searching for a solution). The full use case is that we have people working on SharePoint online and they have two specific needs that we try to address with copying the path to a selected file. This should support them to open a file from a selected application (using Adobe Acrobat instead of Acrobat Reader that is default) and also to attach several files to the same email message from Outlook. The idea we have to accommodate for this is to let them check mark the file and run a flow that copies the path to their clipboard. Might sound like a long way to go for what we are looking for, but after extensive research it seems to be the best option we have.

Any guidance specifically on how to copy a variable value to the user's clipboard would be really appreciated. And of course any other idea that helps us with this use case would also be extremely welcome.

Many thanks in anticipation!

[v-alzhan-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

The function to copy variable value to users clipboard is not supported in Microsoft flow currently, your requirement couldn't be achieved in Microsoft flow currently.

If you would like this feature to be added in Microsoft Flow, please submit an idea to Flow Ideas Forum:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

Best regards,

Alice       

Community Support Team _ Alice Zhang
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[MarkSanchezSPEC]

Since this is an older post, I wanted to see if perhaps the ability to copy data to the Windows Clipboard is now supported? In our use case, we'd like to copy the "Path" of a selected file in SharePoint to the Windows Clipboard.

For example, in SharePoint, when you select a file, click the ellipses button and choose "Detail", a pane opens up. If you scroll down this pane (which can be long), near the end there is a "Path" listed and a button that allows you to copy the selected files' path to the Clipboard:

We wanted to build a PA flow to do the same. Is this possible?

What we like about that particular manual process is that the "Path" given is very simple.

I have a similar post about this here: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Using-Flows/Copy-sharepoint-file-Path-to-Clipboard/m-p/935681#M2...

That solution helped us launch an email, get the selected files path and include it in the email - this handled one of our desired functionalities, but we wanted to know if the same file path can also be copied to the user's Windows Clipboard?

Thanks

[JunMiano]

Is there any update to this copy to clipboard functionality in PA? Anyone has been able to have a workaround?