RPA and Power Automate are a fundamental and successful part of Microsoft’s Power Platform. The app will be included as part of Microsoft Windows Insider Builds soon, and is currently available as a separate free download. It allows them to create processes that automate repetitive manual tasks, build bots, and generally democratize development.

Microsoft Power Automate Desktop uses robotic process automation (RPA) to let ordinary users become developers. Until now, the Power Automate Desktop app has only been available on a per-use license starting at $15 per month. This change in policy was announced at the Microsoft Ignite virtual conference held at the beginning of the month. Hoping that you will find the above updates useful, please feel free to provide your questions and feedback in the Power Automate Community.Microsoft has made its Power Automate Desktop tool available to all Windows 10 users for free as of March 2021. Disabling selectors is also now available, to allow temporary but reversible removal.Friendly names can now be used for selectors to enhance distinction between them.The two former screens have been merged into one, to enable fast and concurrent editing among multiple selectors.The window of editing the selectors of a UI element has been redesigned, to offer an improved experience and more space for greater element visibility.

New screen for editing the selectors of a UI element Power Automate for desktop now supports Java-specific UI automation in Java apps and applets that are built on SWT framework. Java automation in SWT framework applications With this new feature, users can run desktop flows outside the console and without opening it at all. Premium users that are signed into Power Automate for desktop can now trigger a desktop flow through its console run URL.

In addition to the existing Text values, users can now pass more input and output variable data types in desktop flows:įor custom objects, lists and datatables, an embedded UI tool has been implemented to help users provide default values, while also supporting the corresponding JSON format.ĭesktop flows can now be triggered via an external link More data types are now supported for input and output variables New features and updates have been added, as described below. We are happy to announce that the June 2022 update of Power Automate for desktop (version 2.21) has been released! You can download the latest release here.

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