Introduction The recent release of Power Automate Desktop (v2.50) allows updating value of work queue items without changing the status of an item. Through this tutorial I have explained the process to update the value of ‘Queued’ invoice items with the latest values stored in an input csv file. The value of work queue items […]
Use Case In Power Automate Desktop version ‘2.49.176’, two new actions for work queue have been introduced: In this article, I will demonstrate how we can use those actions to add work queue items directly in Power Automate Desktop without using loops and improve efficiency in automation. We can also fetch the items from work […]
Use Case The “Requeue item with delay” pattern delays the execution of work queue item but does not define the max attempts for its processing. In the below example, I have demonstrated the technique to stop reprocess work items after certain attempts. To achieve that, we can use ‘requeuecount‘ property as max retry count and […]
Use Case It is a very common scenario for automation workflow to maintain configuration data in SharePoint or Excel or Dataverse or any other data source. We repeated the logic for reading & accessing configuration object for all workflows. By leveraging reusability, I have designed a child flow in cloud that reads configuration data & […]
Full demo video is available at: Use Case In UI automation, it is a standard process to sign in to an application (desktop or web) to process data in power automate desktop flow. Azure Key Vault is the safest place to securely store the application password. Storing password in Vault also allows rotation of passwords […]
Use Case In many organizations, business users are not granted owner/co-owner access but are allowed to run or trigger flows by granting ‘Run Only User‘ access permission. Business users can’t cancel the flow due to this restriction. To address this limitation, we can leverage SharePoint list & power automate cloud flows to allow them to […]
Use Case To mitigate the risk of saving static machine credential in desktop flow action in cloud, we can leverage Azure Key Vault feature. This feature also addresses password rotation policy that most of the organizations follows. With ‘Credentials‘ feature in power platform, we can pull the latest password stored in Azure Key Vault and […]
Use Case Microsoft has introduced a feature to provide a reliable solution for UI and browser automation actions. With this feature, users can set up a fallback mechanism for UI automation actions in case the UI element cannot be found through the set selector(s). I will demonstrate the image fallback solution by taking an example […]
Use Case Automation KIT is a set of tools that accelerate the use & support of Power Automate for desktop for automation projects. One of its limitations is that it does not provide the number of transactions processed by a Power Automate Desktop flow. Prerequisites Each desktop flow should return the count of transactions in […]
With the introduction of Dataverse Cloud Connector (preview) in power automate desktop flow (in Version 2.44), it becomes easier to add intelligence in PAD using Dataverse AI functions. This will address the issue of setting up HTTP request trigger or any other approach for calling AI functions from Power Automate Desktop. You can find official […]
