Power automate New Designer vs Classic Designer Inquiry

[projectcoord01]

Hello,

Recently, I have taken over a project in Power Automate that was previously started on Classic Designer. Shortly after I started editing the power automate flow, in the new designer I found that all the email output formatting was gone and the angled brackets were greyed out entirely. I ended up deleting the body of the emails and inputting the credentials all over again. This seemed to fix the problem.

Now, whenever I work on the flow in the new designer the same problem persists. However, if I continue to work on it in the classic designer everything works properly (both formatting and the angled brackets do not become greyed out).

This leads me to inquire, will Microsoft be phasing out the classic designer entirely or will it continue to exist even with the introduction of the new designer?

If the classic designer is indeed being phased out, will this bug be fixed in the new designer? Will I be able to keep making edits (if needed) using the new designer even though this flow was almost completely done in the classic version? Thanks!

[Rhiassuring]

From what I can see, they haven't made any comment yet on the lifespan of Classic Designer. 

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/flows-designer

In fact, they're telling us to go back to Classic for things that are not supported in the "New" designer.

So I don't think anyone is in a place to answer this question for you quite yet, except maybe Microsoft execs which will never see this.. haha.

I would assume, though, that if they plan to phase out Classic ever, they will (hopefully) first make sure there is parity in features. So I'm sure it wouldn't even be spoken of for a long time.

[trice602]

Hi @projectcoord01 ,

I wouldn't expect the classic designer to go away anytime soon.  From my experience, if there is something you can't do in the new designer, simply exit without saving and reopen in the classic experience.  That said, it's safe to assume 99% of the existing features will work in the new designer whenever there is a cutover.

I'm using the new designer and warming up to the features.  I do like it!

[NSBI]

Just had this happen to me. I opened a flow with a whole bunch of 'send email' actions which defaulted to the new designer. (In fact it didn't give me the choice of which to use this time). I made a small change elsewhere in the flow and save. I find out later that the format of the emails were completely destroyed - in both in actions that were formatted using the text editor and in actions that were HTML formatted. It also broke the dynamic content in the HTML formatted email. 

In short - I hope they fix this issue too...

[DuncanIVH]

Well I've just tried to edit some of my existing Flows and it forces you to open in the new designer. You have to edit the Flow and then click the 3 dots in the top right and 'Switch to Classic Designer'.

[Craig_Cowley]

I've created a new flow and for the first time used the new designer.

When adding the responses to a form to a 'Create Item', initially you see the dynamic names. When the flow is closed and reopened the dynamic names are replaced.

Thanks

Craig

[max351]

Same here. I simply open the flow and click on switch to classic designer but sometimes this even won't work properly.

[rcallan]

I have a big problem that we are forced to use the new designer which in my opinion is no more than a beta version as a lot of fuctionality is missing. When you run the flow from the designer, it dosen't even show you the output and you need to return to the home screen and open that run in the history screen to see the outputs.

The fact the the history screen still opens in classic mode says enough

Microsoft either need to set the old designer to defualt until all the bugs are resolved or allow us to decide which designer we can default to.

If I forced my clients to use use a half finished interfaces, I would be out of business a long time ago