Auto detecting the user who initiated the flow

[jharrity]

My business has a number of Power Automate Desktop flows that are run by different people in my business. For example, a particular PAD flow may be run, in an attended manner, by a first person in my business and may later be run by a second person in my business - where that particular PAD flow was shared with both people. 

QUESTION - is there any way to detect who initiated the PAD flow (i.e., the first person or the second person)?  The reason I would like to do that is because the PAD flow inserts the name of the initiator of the PAD flow into a field on a website.  So, instead of me creating a first PAD flow for the first person and a second PAD flow for the second person, where the first PAD flow would have a variable having a value of the first person's name and the second PAD flow would have a variable having a value of the second person's name, I would like to have a single PAD flow shared with the first person and the second person and would like to detect which of the first person or the second person initiated the flow.

[Kaif_Siddique · Accepted solution]

Hi @jharrity , 

Go to System>select Get Windows Environment Variable

You can get username, domain etc. Username will change based on the user first, second... 

Let me know if any queries.

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Kaif