Duplicate a Power Automate Flow with Web API

[@jonathanmsmith]

This is exactly what I’ve been trying to figure out for about two years. Thank you for posting this!! Sent a coffee as a thank you late yesterday as well.

[@DamoBird365]

Appreciate it greatly. Thank you 🙏 it’s very nice to hear how my video has helped 👍

[@martinbubenheimer6289]

One of the best videos about Power Automate although I still had a lot of struggle. Some of them coming from constant Microsoft updates and renaming and introducing of new connectors and activities. Finally the flow worked as described. Thank you very much!

[@DamoBird365]

Cheers Martin 👍

[@robofski]

Not sure if/when I’d use it but knowing it’s possible is awesome! Great video.

[@friendlyfriesen]

One word... genius!

[@mikaeldias5372]

You made my day - Just what i was looking for

[@DamoBird365]

You’ve made my day! Thanks for the comment 😃

[@MarcinK-wj5js]

You are Power Automate magician :)

[@DamoBird365]

Cheers Marcin. If you find a challenge, please do let me know.

[@laxminarayanaruttala6935]

Thanks for sharing this. its very helpful and I'm looking for same functionality. I actually create a flow outside solution, manually. Got the ID of it and tried to call AddSoluitonComponent and it returns not found. I tried to query the flow by name using api and also, I can't get the flows which are outside of solution. Am i missing any configuration here or should i create a flow using API to get the flow added to solution using api? Any help here is highly appreciated. Thank you

[@DamoBird365]

Hi there. I don't believe non solution aware flows can work with this API learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/manage-flows-with-code

[@laxminarayanaruttala6935]

Thanks for clarifying. I understood now. Able to do a small proof of concept following your steps and it worked .

[@rafagarcia5548]

Hello Damien, Thank you very much for your videos and for this one in particular. It reflects faithfully the need I have now. Although... My parent flow should start with the SharePoint "For a selected file" action. That is, it is about documents and libraries rather than lists. When I try to set up an example based on your video (min 01:15), I can't find the "Run a Child flow" action anywhere. Could it be that this connector is only available for certain triggers? Do you have an example video / article similar to this one but oriented to documents and libraries instead of lists? Thanks in advance!

[@DamoBird365]

It needs to be part of a solution. Then you will find this action.

[@rafagarcia5548]

@@DamoBird365 Sorry Damien if this is not the right channel for a very specific query. But I've been struggling with this for days without success. Yes: I created a solution. And yes: I know how to get the parent and child stream into it. But... For the call from a parent to the child stream I need to pass two parameters: the URL of the site and some library ID equivalent to the GUID of the list. In the parent I use the SharePoint trigger "For a selected file" plus the "Get file metadata" action. I've done all sorts of tests and variations with expressions to get something that theoretically should be super simple. I can't get it! I'm telling you this because I think you have material here for a video that would be similar to this one... Only instead of being list-based, it would be library-based. Thank you very much in advance and forgive me if you think this query is beyond the scope of the channel.

[@DamoBird365]

@@rafagarcia5548 this was definitely a more complex PoC for me. If you want to try and schedule a call for 15 mins to show me, I can try to help. You can reach out via LinkedIn or Twitter DMs.

[@mayankpachori8442]

Hi Damien, what’s the best way to get proficient in Power Platform and Automate according to you. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks for amazing videos. I will connect on LinkedIn as well. Cheers!

[@DamoBird365]

Hey there, the best way from my own experience was to get involved on the MS Forum powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Forums/ct-p/FL_Comm_Forums. When learning, you want a challenge, a reason to try something out. If you have an idea for a project, great. If not, go onto the forums and solve other people's challenges. Get yourself a developer environment and start playing.

[@mayankpachori8442]

@@DamoBird365 brilliant idea. Thanks a lot😊

[@philipyazdani3756]

Hey, thanks a lot for the video! Great stuff! Would you say it’s possible to easily modify the orchestration/copy flow so that it takes a list of sites where flows should be copied? The idea is to make it easier to maintain new flows version on each different site where it should be running (e.g. ‘, you want to push a new version). Also, how would you suggest to delete the flows for sites where we copied them previously? Thanks a lot!

[@DamoBird365]

If you have a parent/child setup, then the parent should be the trigger and the child will contain the bulk of the automation. Therefore if you want to change the flow, you just need to update the single child. If you want to deploy this to multiple sites, you could provide a list/table of new sites & parameters and loop through the array to create a child per site. It's possible for sure. Equally you could use a parent to accept the list of new sites and the flow I built as a child, which is called as part of an apply to each. It would be good to hear how you get on.

[@philipyazdani3756]

Thanks for the guidance! Will definitely let you know!