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Posted on by Ranjini 3

Variable scope issues – Do we have scope defined for variables in Power Automate Desktop?  

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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
    Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

    It's all global within a single desktop flow. 

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  • roland1112 Profile Picture
    roland1112 24 on at

    is there a possibility to make it inter flow compatible - or do you have to create a giant flow

  • momlo Profile Picture
    momlo 1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    You can treat desktop flows as functions with their own variables and pass them between flows as you wish (using input and output variables).

    That allows you to split large flows into smaller, have shared flows used for various processes etc.

  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
    Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

    Not sure I understand your question, but in order to have variables available from parent/child flows, you need to specifically define input/output variables for each of your flow. This allows passing variables on between separate flows (including cloud flows, too).

     

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