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Use Environment variables inside power automate desktop

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Posted on by Preethi Ambati 54
I have dev and prod rdp Machine and want to import export power automate desktop flows as manged in prod but some location path of excel will be different for dev and prod and since want to import it as managed solution how can I dynamically change the path of config excel file based on machine or user login name
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    Nived_Nambiar 18,136 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Hi,
     
    you can use environment variables there, create environment variables which stores the excel path and also create a input variable in the Power Automate desktop which would be reciving this environment variable when running a desktop flows via cloud flows - try this approach :)
     
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