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This week we would be looking into our first 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 Today we will be creating UI flow that will create an excel file add a few email addresses to it and than send email to respective emails. What you need to get started, Power Automate Desktop installed in your machine. You can download it form here . Click on New flow from top right corner of the Power Automate Desktop screen.  Now search form Launch Excel action from Actions panel. Drag action to main section. double click on it to open action config section. Similarly drag  Create New List. Drag Add item to list and double click it to add email addresses. Note: You can add more email address to same list that we created earlier. Now drag Write to Excel worksheet and double clock on it to configure properties. Now dra...

I n continuation to my previous blog post today we will see what are different options to trigger a UI flow. Deciding the nature of triggers may depend on the nature of the flow(UI Flow) that you created. Attended Mode: To run an attended UI flow, you need to have an active Windows user session that matches the name of the user configured for your connection. The session must not be locked. Unattended Mode: To run unattended UI flows, the target machine needs to be available with all users signed out. Prerequisites You need the  on-premises data gateway  for your device to have the UI flow triggered by Power Automate. A work or school account. You can run UI flow from Power Automate flows. Triggering these flows can be done using  from an event, button, schedule, or business process flow. Sign in to  Power Automate . Select  My flows  in the left navigation pane. Select  New , and then select  your desired type of flow . Give your flow a name in...

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 Browser...