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On Tuesday at Microsoft Ignite, the company announced that Power Automate Desktop is now available at no additional cost, allowing Windows 10 users to harness the power of low-code robotic process automation (RPA). The technology is available as a download and will be included in Windows Insider Preview builds in the coming weeks.
Since RPA in Power Automate was introduced in 2019, the Microsoft Power Automate team has seen tremendous growth, with hundreds of thousands of organizations using the technology and taking billions of actions each month.
I have about 15 different flows where the first step involves signing into a webpage before proceeding on running various other tasks. That login page was just redesigned and i've decided to take advantage of the Run Desktop Flow action instead of updating the individual flows.
My parent flow has the updated actions and elements for the new website, and I've created an output variable which i use the "Set Variable" to set to the browser instance variable generated when the chrome browser is open. In the child flow, I run the desktop flow, and set it to create a variable. However, when those subsequent actions need to click on the browser elements, I get the "Argument 'BrowserInstance' must be 'Web browser instance' error.
You still manage the browser instance from the flow who call it but all code for login routine is in its own flow, so in the future you don't need to wasting your time editing your flow one by one if there is a css change in the website.
I have the same instance. Honestly, I think you would be better off having your entire login as a single subflow. Then you you can just put this subflow in each flow, rather than have to call a completely different flow and deal with inputs/outputs.
Thanks Michael. I have it as a subflow (the logging in portion) in 15 other flows that accomplish different tasks, and that are triggered on different schedules. Wouldn't I have to manually update those "logging in" subflows on each of the 15 flows?
Right, but it is 1 time, and you can copy and paste an entire subflow. I'm actually doing it right now, and I have about 50 flows that all use this, but my LoginAPX subflow is the subflow I always use to Login to APX.
But I simply fixed it once, and just copy and paste my entire subflow overwriting the existing subflow that I had:
What a bummer, Run Desktop Flow seems like it would be perfect to prevent this. Because next time the login screen changes you'd have to copy and paste the updated flow into those 50 flows again right?
Ha! I'd literally just said this was going to be my workaround for now. Thanks Yoko, at least I wasn't totally far off. Was hoping i didn't have to create that new attach to chrome instance...but better than nothing
Several updates later and still unable to pass browser instance natively, don't think it's going to be added soon either. This work-around is the best alternative I've found.
One small addition, I pass the URL as an output variable from the dedicated login flow to make it more dynamic so the calling flow will always be able to find the browser instance just created even if the URL changes.
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