Always Create A Config For Your Power Automate Desktop flows!

[@andersjensenorg]

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[@manojarajaram529]

We use environment variables for storing Important config data. If the process has a lot more variables then excel

[@andersjensenorg]

That also a great approach 🙌

[@mdhidayat5706]

Config file is definitely one of the best practice when developing solution.

[@andersjensenorg]

Do you prefer Excel or another method (JSON etc.)?

[@mdhidayat5706]

@@andersjensenorg I always use excel for config file and pass it to datatable. After that proceed to do assignment in each key value pair for further action.

[@cpar681]

Great video as always Anders and I'm very appreciative for the amount of free content you put out. One comment I would make to this video is to potentially add a 1-2 minute wait before the build config desktop flow runs, allowing OneDrive to sync any file changes. I recently came across this issue and a hard wait solved it. PAD can sometimes run quicker than OneDrive can sync :).

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks x 1000, Chandler. Comments like this are gold 😍 Regarding the wait: I've disabled OneDrive sync with the Excel config, and I recommend always doing so (disabling the sync for the documents in our automation), when working with M365 in PAD (unless required). Have a great day. Kind regards, Anders

[@PitakYT]

Thank you for your video. good practice for developing RPA solution😍

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks a bunch, @PitakYT 🤩 I've created a Discord. We're more than 10,000+ RPA developers networking and solving problems here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE You're more than welcome. Kind regards, Anders

[@kensleylewis]

Great walkthrough

[@andersjensenorg]

My pleasue, Kensley 🙂

[@geraldinedelacruz506]

Another informative video tutorial! Thanks a ton for sharing this @Anders! 💯🙌🏼🙏🏼

[@andersjensenorg]

Thank you very much, Geraldine - your support helps me a lot 🤩🤩🤩

[@ashokyendhoti1435]

Hello Thanks for your videos I'm working on Uipath now , watching your power Automate Desktop videos and I'm just wondering that if you could make end to end real time projects, usecases so that I can get hands on experience on another RPA tool along with Uipath and moreover that drives me to grab opportunities to work on Power Automate domain Thanks Ashok Y

[@andersjensenorg]

Thank you so much. Have you seen this playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLXXz88_TPiHqbQENjPjBkO3DSro06cAcb 🙂

[@antonioroldanmolina5291]

@Anders? I get this error : We haven't found %ConfigPath%\\%WorkflowName%.xlsx. The values of my variables are not being taken correctly, it's just taking the name of the variable as a text. Some help?

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 11,000+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE Kind regards, Anders

[@ALVINMAN452]

"Houston i have a problem".When i made Run desktop flow did not appears to me the Input variables and i can´t choose the workflowName: %WorkflowName%. The BuildConfig PAD, its like yours, i saw it several times. I real don´t know what s the problem.

[@andersjensenorg]

That's weird, can you try post a screenshot of the problem on the discord? The link is in the description of the video 🙂 Kind regards, Anders

[@andersjensenorg]

That's weird, can you please post a screenshot on the discord (the link is in the video description). Kind regards, Anders

[@ALVINMAN452]

"Agnius - Hoje às 15:51 It's a bug in version 2.38 that input/output variables do not appear in the Run desktop flow dialog, if that's what you mean. We're expecting a fix. Hopefully, soon." Obrigado Agnius for your help.

[@lougoban]

@@ALVINMAN452 Yeah, input variable/s are still not shown in version 2.39 in Run Desktop Flow. Is there any workaround for this ?

[@RyanPuffer-r1n]

What are some other values you might need to include in a config file?

[@andersjensenorg]

Hey user. URLs, data paths, length of timeouts, environment details, error-handling parameters, emails, retries and parameters for the log/report. Kind regards, Anders

[@DanielWeikert]

I tried to run the vb script but the output is empty?

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 8000+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE Kind regards, Anders

[@iamjorgensen]

Thanks for a great tutorial! Coming from Blue Prism background being able to store "environmental variables" is crucial for life cycle management and transporting processes and objects between environments (dev->uat->prod). Great if you at some point could share some thoughts and best practises about how to do the same between PAD environments :)

[@andersjensenorg]

Hey Christian - many thanks 😊 I have a larger video planned for 2024, and what you want to look at is "Solutions" in Power Automate Cloud. Have you seen this 2-hour PAD Best practice video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5vVqX-GnMSHmqs I'm sure you're familiar with almost everything though. Kind regards, Anders

[@mohamedsalman3011]

getting error- failed to create custom object

[@andersjensenorg]

Thanks for writing 😊 I'm getting more than 50 messages daily. While I read all of them, I can’t reply to everyone 😔 But I’ve created an RPA/Automation community where we’re 10,000+ RPA Developers helping each other with solutions and our careers. Here’s the video on how to join (the invitation link is in the video description): kzbin.info/www/bejne/roipq2CJbpuLfdE Kind regards, Anders