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My team is moving from On Premise Dynamics CRM to Power Apps. In On Premise we have a lot of workflows that we run as synchronous (real time) as we need the processes to complete before users take other actions.

In Power Flow, how do we differentiate between a Synchronous (real time) and Asynchronous (background) flow? Based on training modules I've seen, this is an option, but i have been unable to determine how it is set in the Flow UI.

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Joel CustomerEffective 3,224 on at

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Power Automate Flows are background/asynchronous processes, but they can have similar properties to real-time workflows (without the real-time part). For example, if you do your process in a changeset scope, it is an atomic transaction that all succeeds or fails).

Also, power automate flows can do many things that workflow cannot--such as updating multiple/related records, joining to unrelated records, and using over 325 different connections.

But the good news is that real-time workflow is still alive and well and has a bright future. You don't have to dump your real time workflows if they are working.

You should consider the scope of the job, and there are likely some things that you have a s plugins that could be moved to power automate flows.

I wrote this blog that might be helpful https://global.hitachi-solutions.com/blog/power-automate

@BrennanPhoenix if this answers your question, please mark it as a solution so other people can find it.

BTW there is no "power flow." Microsoft Flow is now called Power Automate.

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BrennanPhoenix 30 on at

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Hi @jlindstrom -

Thank you for your quick reply (and correcting me on my terminology - been a long day). I do have a couple of quick questions -
Workflows only seem to be available in the Classic UI - Do you know if there is any plan to add them to the new UI?
Can you clarify what you mean by 'do your process in a changeset scope' ? Do you mean as triggered by a CRUD operation in CDS?
Thanks again!

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Joel CustomerEffective 3,224 on at

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editing workflows is in classic today, but if you add the workflow to a solution you can get to it from either the classic or modern maker experience.

2. This is a changeset https://carldesouza.com/make-your-common-data-service-transactions-atomic-using-changesets-in-power-automate-flows/. If you create your flow from a solution using the cds current environment connector (which is about to be renamed to DataFlex) you can add a step called a change set. Anything you put in the changeset works as an atomic transaction, like a real time workflow.

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