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How to share and export of Power automate desktop in production environment

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Posted on by Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee

How do we move power automate desktop bots from one machine to another machine?

 

Also how we can achieve production movement of Power automate desktop from dev to UAT and then production etc?

 

We have not found the way to share desktop flow with other users or environment.

 

Please guide on above 2 points.

 

here is a screenshot.

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  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    @Anonymous There is no easy way to share Desktop Flows yet. It is in the works. You can move flows between environments using Solutions

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    Wedge 16 on at

    What does this mean? How do you move a Desktop Flow to another environment using Solutions?

  • miketran13 Profile Picture
    miketran13 720 on at

    Hey,

     

    You can export the Desktop Flow and move it to the another environment by using Solution. 

    I've done it many times. First of all, you just need to create a new Solution for your flows, then add all flows you want to export to the solution. Then you just can export the solution as a .Zip file and import it to the new environment.

     

    Thanks and hope it can help you. 

    Mike

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  • GanCW Profile Picture
    GanCW 237 on at

    What is Solution and where do I find this drop down that has Solution ?

  • miketran13 Profile Picture
    miketran13 720 on at

    Hi,

     

    See below for more information:

     

    Solutions are the mechanism for implementing application lifecycle management (ALM) in Power Apps and other Power Platform products, such as Power Automate. For detailed information about the solution concepts and how solutions are used for application lifecycle management, see Overview of ALM with Microsoft Power Platform in the Power Platform ALM guide.

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/overview-alm 

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    Thanks and hope it can help you. 

    Mike

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  • Shashankpuli Profile Picture
    Shashankpuli 82 on at

    Thank you .. it helped me 

  • GanCW Profile Picture
    GanCW 237 on at

    You can share desktop flow only from the Power Automate website

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    Refer to the PAD documentation here ->

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/manage

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    r96359 228 on at

    Hi @miketran13 , 

    I tried the process you described on how to transfer a desktop flow using Solutions. I created a new solution, added the desktop flow, exported solution as a zip, then imported the solution to another users computer. When looking at the zip file, the json file within /workflows/ didn't seem big enough to represent the desktop flow as it's 6k.

    The end result is that the zip imported successfully but the desktop flow cant be found under her Solutions or under Desktop Flows.

    I did notice that she was able to see the Solution I created before any importing but the desktop flow was not showing. After the successful import, again the desktop flow was not listed in the solution.

    Your help is appreciated!

     

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @r96359 ,

     

    After adding desktop flows to your solution, did you click on Publish all customizations from top banner.

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    r96359 228 on at

    Hi @Anonymous I just tried that and it resulted in an error message. It seems that Publish All affects areas that I don't have permission to.

    Any way to just publish my solution?

    Error:

    Publishing all customizations failed. SecLib::CheckPrivilege failed. User: xxxxxxx, PrivilegeName: prvWriteEntity, PrivilegeId: xxxxxxxxx, Required Depth: Basic, BusinessUnitId: xxxxxxx, MetadataCache Privileges Count: 3612, User Privileges Count: 972

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