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I've created a flow to update a few documents every few hours. For this, I'm using the Windows Scheduler, and it works just fine.

Now I'm trying to send a notification through Microsoft Teams, when the flow finishes, but I'm getting a desktop notification that blocks the unnatended execution of the flow.

I'm thinking of making the affected flow to be a subflow of another flow to click in the "OK" button with the UI automation tools, but there has to be another way.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Eduardo.

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CU16071609-1 6,255 Moderator on at

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What version of Power Automate Desktop (PAD) are you currently using?

I assume you're utilizing your personal laptop, which runs on Windows 10 Home, to design and execute your flows. It appears that you haven't registered your machine with the environment. If this is the case, please utilize the appropriate operating system and register your machine with your environment. By running your flow through the task scheduler, you won't encounter this popup dialogue confirmation. I hope this information proves helpful.

If my assumption is incorrect, kindly provide details about your PAD version, operating system, and when this popup dialogue began appearing. I'll investigate further and offer assistance accordingly.

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TKE_evelazco 6 on at

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Thank you for your reply!

I'm using PAD 2.42.317.24061, and the PC is connected to the company environment. PC is running Windows 10 Enterprise ver. 22H2

The flow works as intended, but then I was required to add MS teams notifications throughout the execution of the flow (eventually this will include approval flows) and when I added a Microsoft Teams action, this popup started appearing whenever I try to run the flow. This doesn't happen then running the flow from the editing screen, but only when running the flow from the flow list/windows scheduler.

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You will very likely not be able to automate the UI of PAD via PAD itself. That's not allowed. So, you won't be able to automate the act of clicking the OK button. Well, maybe you would via image recognition, but that's unstable.

This new prompt has been introduced in the March 2024 release (version 2.42.xxx.xxxxx), and is not even documented properly. So, it's clearly an issue. I have already seen people complaining about it, but it doesn't seem like there is a quick fix for it. If you can, I would recommend installing an earlier version (such as 2.41) and also submitting a bug report to MS support. They might fix it, or add some sort of a functionality to disable the prompt. Or, if there already is one that's not documented, they might at least tell you how to do it.

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I agree with @Agnius point.

I too haven't encountered this issue with version 2.41. Upon upgrading to version 2.42, the popup started appearing persistently. Despite reverting to version 2.41, the issue remained unresolved. However, it's worth trying from your end as well.

It seems that there might have been a registry update during the upgrade process, and downgrading didn't restore those registry settings to their previous state.

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Thank you all for your support. I'll try to use the image recognition for the time being, and make sure to submit the report.

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