Triggering a desktop flow from the cloud
In this last recipe, we’ll use the desktop flow we created previously and trigger it from a scheduled cloud flow so our desktop flow runs every week.
Getting Ready
You’ll need an existing Power Automate Desktop flow, an on-premises data gateway on the machine hosting the flow, and appropriate licensing (as desktop flows are a Premium connector in cloud flows). For this particular flow, the machine the desktop flow will run on must be powered on and signed in to or the run will fail. With that in mind, remember that some desktop flows may be better as unattended (and running on an always-on virtual desktop) as opposed to any individual person’s machine.
Also, as mentioned earlier in this chapter, Dataverse is a prerequisite and it may have been set up for you during your first run. And since each Power Automate environment can have its own database, you may need to configure additional environments as needed to best-support...