The most recent addition of the Desktop version serves to further improve, build upon, and integrate with Microsoft services. Microsoft’s Power Automate Software has come a long way since it was introduced in December 2019. Additionally, highly technical users will have a greater variety of tools at their disposal.

Functionality such as the Chat bot assistant and premade parameter builder allow non-technical users more flexibility and ease in the way they automate their tasks. Features such as database, teams, and SharePoint integrations (Microsoft Connectors) have increased the appeal of Power Automate. This allows for a higher level of employee understanding and adoption of the tool.

Improvements such as automation through “action recording” increased the usability. To summarize, the release of Power Automate Desktop along with the features, functionalities, and improvements that Microsoft has implemented since wave 2 began have propelled the tool from niche use cases to being a strong competitor within the RPA marketplace. The user is able to use dynamic values as parameters in actions by defining them during the recording, improving the Power Automate Desktop UX.With this new feature, the user is able to populate an input/output or flow variable in Power Automate Desktop with the retrieved value. The user has to manually update the respective action after the recording completes. Currently, the user can retrieve the text/name of a UI control during recording however, there is no option during recording to specify the Power Automate Desktop variable that should be populated with the specific text/name.With this new feature, you can indicate that the specific text field should be populated dynamically with the use of an input/output or a flow variable in Power Automate Desktop. In order to set a dynamic value for a field, the user must manually update the action in the designer after the recording completes.

Currently, you can populate a text field in a screen only by inserting specific (static) text.

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