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Dataverse Desktop Flow Power Automate Power Automate Desktop

How to use “Requeue item with delay” for work queue item in power automate desktop flow?

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 […]

Manish Solanki 
Power Automate Power Automate Desktop SharePoint

Reusable child flow to read configuration data for Power Automate desktop flow

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 & […]

Manish Solanki 
Azure Azure Key Vault Dataverse Power Automate Power Automate Desktop

How to securely sign in to an application in Power Automate Desktop with the password stored in Azure Key Vault?

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 […]

Manish Solanki 
Cancel Run Only User Flow
Power Automate Power Automate Desktop SharePoint

How to allow “Run Only User” to cancel a desktop flow trigger from cloud?

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 […]

Manish Solanki