Now any Windows 10 user can download the application from the official website and use it for free (previously, a license price started at $15 / month). There are over 300 ready-made action templates to choose from. Similar to Power Automate, in the desktop version you create “flows” to trigger specific actions. The program works with any application that can be run on a PC or on the web.

PDA is ready to take over them to free you up for more important tasks.

Such processes often take a lot of time and effort. It allows you to automate routine processes on the computer that you regularly face both at work and in everyday life. Click the New Flow option to create a new Flow and give it a name.Power Automate Desktop is the desktop version of the cloud-based Power Automate (previously known as Microsoft Flow) service, which is a robotic process automation (RPA) tool. In this example I using a regular Microsoft account so my PDA flows will be stored under the apps folder on OneDrive. If you are using a work or school account the PDA flows you created will be stored in your organisation’s default Dataverse environment. Once installed, configure it to run under your account. To get started with PAD you download it from here. Getting started with Power Automate Desktop

Connect to databases and run SQL queries.

Power Automate Desktop supports the automation of a range of tasks including This scenario requires paid license to run and here I wanted to see if I could accomplish something similar using the free version of Power Automate Desktop. I previously did a post where I used Forms Processing in AI Builder in combination with Power Automate Desktop for document automation.

In this post I wanted to demonstrate some of its extensive capabilities by using Power Automate Desktop for Document Automation extracting the contents of invoice received as emailed PDFs, and using RPA, Robotic Process Automation, to enter the details into a legacy application. Power Automate Desktop empowers users to automate repetitive tasks they run on their Windows desktops. At Ignite this year Microsoft announced that anybody running Windows 10 can now use Power Automate Desktop for free.

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