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JonL
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Welcome to the Power Automate Desktop forum board!

Welcome to Power Automate Desktop (preview), a new desktop-based robotic process automate (RPA) authoring solution that expands low-code automation capabilities for everyone in an organization.

 

Here are some helpful links to get you started!

The Announcement Blog post

 

The Power Automate RPA webpage with more information

 

Power Automate Desktop documentation

 

Getting Started Video Series

 

Download RPA In a day training: RPA in a day training

 

Please feel free to post discussion and questions relating to Power automate Desktop and its uses in this forum.

As always, reach out to  @GabrielStJohn for help or concerns with the community site!

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@mTalha_Khan Use sendkeys or try updating the selector in PAD for your dropdown object or add the ui element again.

 

Thanks

Ankesh

jorge849
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Hello, the past week i actualizated the power automate desktop version. and all of my flows have desappeared. any idea to help me? thanks

VNJoe
Frequent Visitor

So to be clear, you can't access your cloud flows with the Desktop tool unless you purchase some premium version of the Automate license?  I have flows in the cloud, and I have flows in the Desktop app, but they are distinct.  I tried to register the machine, but it says I need some Premium version on my Microsoft 365 E3 license?

Very confusing product announcement, even more confusing documentation, so is what I stated above true?

Yes, that's true if you want to use cloud and desktop flow together within one environment. You needs at least a per user license: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2085130


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VNJoe
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31 page PDF on how to get licensing? No thanks, but I can't stop the updater from trying to put the machine on automatically now, and can't update unless I do.  Makes no sense to me.

Denden
Frequent Visitor

Hi,

 

Anyone who can advise on how to share the Flows created via Power Automate Desktop to other users ?

Appreciate any response.

Thank you!

 

Agnius
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You can do that if you have a Power Automate Per User plan with Attended RPA, which includes both cloud flows and desktop flows. Or if you have an Azure pay-as-you-go subscription on your environment. Both of these include desktop flows.

 

When you have that, sharing desktop flows is done via the cloud portal. Here's a guide on how to do that: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/manage#share-desktop-flows

 

If you do not have a paid license, but still want to share your desktop flows, the only way to do that is to copy the actions out of the PAD designer into a text file (the actions will be automatically converted to Robin code) and then give that file to some other user. They can then copy the code into their own PAD designer to create the same actions. If your flow has multiple sub-flows, this process will need to be performed for each sub-flow separately, because you can only copy the contents of a single sub-flow at once.

 

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Hi , I want to ask, where is the flow that has been deleted in Power Automate Desktop stored?

Hi,

I am trying to execute array formula for excel in power automate desktop , but its not executing .

=IFERROR(MATCH(TRUE,ISBLANK(C5:DD5),0),"count range") , can you let me know correct syntax to execute array formula in power automate desktop.

 

Please create a separate topic in the forums for your question. This is a thread for welcoming users.

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Hello Everyone,

can someone please help me how to suppress the check for updates through a registry or a config file.

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Your help is really appreciated!!
Thank you

Deenuji
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@SaiKrishna44 


As @Agnius mentioned earlier,  Please create a separate topic in the forums for your question. This is a thread for welcoming users.

 

@Deenuji can you please help me where can I post my questions?

Hi @SaiKrishna44 

 

Please use the below link and click on the "start topic" button and write your queries and post there

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Desktop/bd-p/MPADesktop 

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