Power Automate Desktop allows users to build desktop automation flows using a visual designer. It can automate tasks across applications by recording mouse and keyboard actions. Some key uses of Power Automate Desktop include running commands from the command line, interacting with email via IMAP/Exchange, executing SQL statements, obtaining files from web pages, using the Windows File Explorer, and scripting in PowerShell. It supports both attended and unattended flows. The main components are the Console for managing flows and the Flow Designer for building them visually using a toolbar, actions pane, workspace, and variables.

1. POWER AUTOMATE DESKTOP

2. TYPES OF FLOWS

3. WHAT IS POWER AUTOMATE DESKTOP?
Power Automate for desktop is
a tool to build your desktop
flows.
PAD- can help to create, edit,
and run your automations.
Desktop flows broaden the
existing robotic process
automation (RPA) capabilities
in Power Automate
Power Automate app allows
you to connect your machine
to the Power Automate cloud.

4. WHY WE USE POWER AUTOMATE DESKTOP?
• To streamline workflows in both modern and legacy applications.
• It receives input via mouse and keyboard, the actions are recorded.
• The repetitive actions are tracked and recorded by the technology across several
applications .
• The process of automation can be carried over to other sources such as
databases, Excel files Pdfs and lot more.
• With this technology, it is possible to build automation across organizations,
enabling more than 400 connectors across the cloud.
• It make it equally accessible to all in multiple languages

5. WHEN TO USE POWER AUTOMATE DESKTOP?
TO RUN COMMANDS
FROM CMD
OBTAINING TEXT FROM
THE CLIPBOARD
USE AN IMAP OR
EXCHANGE SERVER TO
INTERACT WITH EMAIL
MESSAGES
TO EXECUTE SQL
STATEMENTS
OBTAINING A FILE
FROM A WEB PAGE
TO USE THE WINDOWS
FILE EXPLORER
TO LAUNCH A
PROGRAM
SCRIPTING IN
POWERSHELL

6. BENEFITS OF DESKTOP FLOWS
Desktop apps Automation
Easy to create.
When APIs are not available.
Helps when Dependency on device .
Quick to test and immediate returns as expected.
To connect to Legacy Apps with no available APIs.

7. ATTENDED FLOWS

8. UNATTENDED FLOWS

9. COMPONENTS OF POWER AUTOMATE
DESKTOP
Console - the main control
panel of the platform from
which you can launch the
flow designer to create or
edit flows. Through the
console's options, you can
also delete, rename, and
run existing flows.
Flow designer - the
development environment
of Power Automate for
desktop, where you can
build flows and perform
debugging.

10. POWER AUTOMATE DESIGNER ELEMENTS
• The toolbar (A) - (Save, Undo, Copy, Debug,
and Paste) Contains basic operations for use with
actions and buttons to start the desktop/web
recorders and control the process
flow (Start/Pause/Stop).
• Sub flow (B) - Allows you to add sub flows under
your Main flow.
• Actions pane (C) - Contains all Power Automate
actions and includes a search bar.
• Workspace (D) - Contains all actions that are added
to the process. Functions are separated into tabs.
• Input/output variables (E) - Contains all variables
that you create in the process.
• Flow variables (F) - List of all variables that are
used in the flow.