How To: Power Automate
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How To: Get started with Power Automate Desktop
Author: Friederike Eichholz & Anette Gustavsson Date: 2025-05-15 Required installations before: Power Automate Desktop App If you have Windows 11, most likely the app is already pre-installed Else, you can download it from the Company Portal Power Automate browser extension Check that you have extension installed by look for your preferred browser, e.g. Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome (Below shows that Edge extension is already installed) If Admin rights are required to install the extension; thus, you need to Other services : Oatly Give the request a good name e.g. "Power Automate browser extension (Egde)" the link the extension for your preferred browser, e.g. Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome Also to speed upp the process provide your device name so that they can allow the extension for power automate: Do you need help locating your computer name? - Microsoft Support These links can be very helpful at the beginning of your automation Power Automate Desktop journey: Microsoft Learning Path: Get started with Power Automate for desktop Anders Jensen: Get Started with Power Automate Desktop: Tutorial for Beginners (2025) Power Automate Desktop is not the same as Power Automate Quick Link to Power Automate : Microsoft Power Automate | Home NB! Power Automate is not the same same as Power Automate Desktop, which is started in the Windows start menu: Flow Running Tip To ensure your flow runs efficiently, start it from the Flows overview rather than from within the flow itself. This approach significantly speeds up the operational execution. How to share flows with your coworkers with the PAD free version Open the flow, that you want to share. Select all actions with Ctrl + A and copy the actions with Ctrl + C. Paste the actions into a text file, e.g. txt with the Notepad app, with Ctrl + V and save and name the file at your preferred location with Ctrl + S. Send the file to your coworker. How to add shared flows from your coworkers with the PAD free version Open the txt file that your coworker shared with you. Select the text of the entire file with Ctrl + A and copy it with Ctrl + C. Open the Power Automate Desktop app and create a new flow. If not specifically said by the sender of the flow. If not specifically stated by the sender of the flow, do NOT enable Power Fx. The newly created flow will open automatically. Click on the white area in the Main section and paste the actions from the txt file with Ctrl + V. They will automatically get the correct format. If you have further questions or issues, feel free to contact Friederike Eichholz (Friederike.Eichholz@oatly.com)
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How to: Find resolve issues with your Power Automate flow (or Power Automate Desktop flow)
In this article it gives you som examples of how to solve your issues with running flows Suggested actions 1. Ask Copilot for support with the error message you get 2. If your colleague can run the flow e.g. compare your flows and in details go to task manager and see what services are active. Then look into if running egde browser what policy is enables (see example below) 3. If you are exporting grahps from an excel sheet and the script is not working Related Knowlegde base articles: How To: Get started with Power Automate Desktop : Oatly -------------------------------------- Power Automate ----------------------------- Example Action 3 - with a scheduled Power Automate flow User A has created and Power Automate flow that extracts trend graphs from different excel sheets. Script has worked , but now it fails Resolution: Check if someone re-named the sheet and change back to old name (same as in your script) and run flow again. -------------------------------------- Power Automate Desktop (PAD) ----------------------------- Example Action 2 - with PAD User A running Power Automate Desktop (PAD) use case with excel and D365, and runs ok with for another user B. Checked the task manager and found out that user A did not have some services running. Resolution: Added device to edge exception group, now user is able to access the power automate. Can NOT run flow (User A) versions 1.3.195.61 edge://extensions/ this is enabled (OK) edge://policy/ Policy value = false (not active) Can run the flow (User B) - same versions as User A 1.3.195.61