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Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop

You're reading from   Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop Boost your productivity by implementing best practices for automating repetitive desktop processes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245942
Length 308 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Power Automate Desktop 2. Chapter 2: Using Power Automate Desktop and Creating Our First Flow FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Editing and Debugging UI Flows 4. Chapter 4: Basic Structure Elements and Flow Control 5. Chapter 5: Variables, UI Elements, and Images 6. Chapter 6: Actions for UI Automation 7. Chapter 7: Automate Your Desktop and Workstation 8. Chapter 8: Automating Standard Business Applications 9. Chapter 9: Leveraging Cloud Services and Power Platform 10. Chapter 10: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence 11. Chapter 11: Working with APIs and Services 12. Chapter 12: PAD Enterprise Best Practices 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with subflows

Within each flow, we can also create subflows. This is a concept to structure a larger UI flow into different pieces, which in turn can then be called and referenced in the main flow:

Figure 3.8 – Deconstructing a flow

Figure 3.8 – Deconstructing a flow

The main flow containing the overall logic of a task then becomes much more readable and easier to understand. All variables are available in the main flow and can be changed, no passing parameters must be specified. It is even possible to call different subflow from within a subflow if you want to structure the work even further. The following figure shows the main flow from our previous example and two subflows:

Figure 3.9 – Main flow and subflows

Figure 3.9 – Main flow and subflows

A subflow is stored within the flow itself and can only be used in the containing flow. If you look at the Actions pane, you can also see that there is a Run flow actions group with a Run desktop flow action in it. This additional...

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