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Connectors for Desktop Flows

I'm using a trial version of Power Automate to get a better understanding of the functionality and have a couple of questions on using connectors.

I've set up a connector for Jira using the API, however, I'm not seeing any options in the Desktop flow application for Jira actions. Is this functionality not available in the trial version?
Wondering if anyone has established custom connectors for paid ads platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Ads, etc? Does that require a developer to accomplish?

Thank you!

Hi @rknimble ,

Lot of questions here so will answer the ones I know.

You can connect to LinkedIn directly through the cloud flows (v2) connector and works well; I am using hourly 24/7. You could also do some more customer stuff directly in a browser window but be careful, LinkedIn does not support or agree to this automation and you risk getting shut down.

Jira won't work without a paid subscription. Lots of issues regardless. I did some tests and that's a far as a I went. Kinda works for some actions. Also note: the Jira actions are cloud connectors, not desktop actions. I'm not seeing any big posts how wonderful Jira/Power Automate are together.

Meta does work well through a desktop flow working directly out of your Meta business page. You can actively post to FB and Insta pretty easily. Outside of that, you will need a developer account through Meta to write your own customer connector, seems pretty technical so if you just posting or responding to comments, I like the Desktop flow route.

That said, for LinkedIn and Meta, you can do almost anything you want with a premium license (you need premium to at least run attended flows from a cloud flow), UNLESS, you are ok just manually starting your desktop flow by pressing run - which isn't bad for testing and the initial development.

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