Creating an attended desktop flow

In this first recipe, we’ll create a simple, attended desktop flow, meaning you’ll manually trigger it and supervise (and potentially interact with) the flow as it runs on your machine.

Getting Ready

You’ll need Power Automate Desktop installed and setup on your machine.

How to do it

1. Launch Power Automate on your machine
2. Select New flow

3. Search for app in the action panel and double-click Run application as shown in Figure X.6.

   

   Figure X.6 – Run application action.

4. Use the Select file icon and then search for an application you use regularly such as your email application, an invoicing or client system, database, etc. The select file and explorer windows are shown in Figure X.7. We’ll use Outlook in this recipe.

   

   Figure X.7 – Run application select file and explorer navigation options.

5. Select Open and Save once you’ve found the application file you’d like to launch.

6. Now select the Record button...