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Solution Environment Variables in Power Automate Desktop

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Hello,

 

is it possible to acess directly a environment variable in Power Automate Desktop flow if they are in the same Solution?

 

I only found the way to call the Power Automate Desktop flow over a cloud flow and acess the environment variable in the cloud flow.

 

Thank you very much for your help.

Greetings, Francesco

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    Mira Ghaly Profile Picture
    Mira Ghaly 11,415 Moderator on at

    @Anonymous 

    Currently you can't access environment variables directly from a desktop flow so as you mentioned best way will be through a cloud flow

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    msabot Microsoft Employee on at

    If you are looking for machine related variables, not the power platform environment ones, you can use the "Get Windows environment variable" action 

    msabot_0-1652525618385.png

    Sharing this as I ended up in this post while searching for ways of getting access to the system's environment variables.

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    CU18061238-0 29 on at

    Any idea when this will be implemented? This is very useful to share variable between Apps, Cloud en Desktop flow.

     

    Cheers,

    Servan

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    momlo 1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    You can pass the environment variable to PAD using input variables. When you run your PAD flow from the cloud, just use the environment variable in the PAD action/input variable field.

     

    Another approach would be do create PA flow that triggers on API call and passes back the variable to PAD

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    CU18061238-0 29 on at

    Thanks @momlo!

    By the way, I found another solution: https://www.cdata.com/kb/tech/dataverse-odbc-power-automate.rst 

     

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    momlo 1,527 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

    Yeah, cdta has a broad set of odbc, but that's the paid software, right?

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    imumeriqbal01 18 on at

    hi @momlo you have any documents and or YouTube videos for this

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