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Trial environment expiration and PAD flows

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Hello,

 

I am using the Power Automate Desktop trial version with a trial environment. The trial environment will be expired after 30 days. Will my desktop flows on PAD be available after the expiration (e.g. if i create a new environment)?

 

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    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @tsentiloglou ,

     

    You will loose all your desktop flows if the environment expires.

    I suggest, create a unmanaged solution add all your desktop flows and export it. That way you can import that desktop flow solution into any new environment you create in future.

     

    Hope this helps 🙂

  • tsentiloglou Profile Picture
    8 on at

    Thank you so much for your answer.

    Can you please explain what is the "unmanaged solution" bc when i tried to sign in the Power Automate Desktop the environment was required and the only option was trial.

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    @tsentiloglou ,

     

    * If you go to PowerApps dashboard or flow dashboard, you will see a menu option called solutions

    * There you can create and manage your solutions

    * Click on new solution

    * Fill the form and select "CDS default publisher"

    * Click on Add existing then Desktop flow

    * Select your desktop flow

     

    What are solutions?

    * In simple words solution lets you package multiple PowerApps, cloud flows, desktop flows, dataverse tables etc. into one package. This will help you migrate your apps to different environments very easily

    * In PowerApps you have 2 types of solutions. 1. Unmanaged solution 2. Managed solution

    * Biggest difference between managed and unmanaged solutions is, unmanaged solution will let you do changes to your apps, flows, etc. after you deploy it to other environment. Where as managed solution will not let you do any changes to the apps, tables flows etc.

    * Ideally when you're still in developing phase you will move solution as unmanaged

    * After completing the development, you can move the solution as managed to the production environment. This will stop people from making any changes to the apps, flows etc. in production environment.

     

    If you want to know more about the solutions, here is the link:

    Solutions in Power Apps - Power Apps | Microsoft Docs

     

     

    Hope this helps 🙂

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  • tsentiloglou Profile Picture
    8 on at

    Thank you so much for your help!

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