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UI Flow for web

T his week we would be looking into our first web UI flow demo on how to create UI flows using Power Automate Desktop. Just in case if you are not aware about UI Flows/ Power automate desktop flows. Please refer my previous blogs. Introduction to UI Flows UI Flow Triggers Creating first UI Flow To create a web UI flow you will have to download Power Automate addin for the browser you are using. Note: Supported browsers Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer. Today we will create UI flow for web, Our case study today will be simple. We will launch browser and record actions that we perform. Open Power automate desktop app. Click on New Flow First action to be dragged will be Launch Chrome.       Click on Save. Not click on web recorder from top left corner and click on web recorder.   You should now see a popup, select Chrome from there. Open the URL you added in Launch chrome action. Click on start recording button from recorder screen. Perform actions you want to and then

Introduction to UI Flows

Microsoft has come up with a boom by introducing UI Flows. UI flows helps you to automate the rework that you do on daily basis. For example, you might be doing Bidding on any freelancer site and maintaining data in a local excel. You at the end of the week/day want to submit data to some portal like dynamic365. You can also use this to send emails to list of people in excel. UI flow is the solution to help you with. Note: UI flows don't need any expertise with SharePoint/.NET or any other development language. Just prepare an algorithm and get started. What you need to get Started? Just download Power Automate Desktop. You just need to train your UI flow on what to mimic whenever flow is triggered. Power automate allows you to record your actions on windows as well as web browsers. You don't need any additional tool for recording windows/desktop actions, However you will need to add Power Automate add-in for recording actions to perform in browser. Supported Browsers - Firefox