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Hi, 

I want to schedule a PAD flow for everyday at 10 am,1pm & 5pm except saturday & sunday. Can anybody please let me know how can i schedule it. 

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    @dRautela_1234  as far as I know, there is no way except for creating a Schedulled Flow and calling Ui Flow from there. It seems stupid, but for the time being I think this will be the only way. The same applies to event triggers.

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    Hi, @Anonymous , thanks for the response. I know we can create a schedule flow & called PAD flow from there but Could you please let me know can i Schedule the flow at timings 9am, 1pm & 5pm in one schedule flow without creating 3 individual flows for respective times. 

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    @dRautela_1234 you can create 3 flows, one for each time. Not ideal, but should work just fine. Just make some amendments the run time would not overlap. 

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    71 on at

    @Anonymous , thanks😊

    Could you please help me in one more thing. Actually I have created a new column with currentdate name at $firstfreecolumn$ in excel everytime when it runs like daily new column inserted. So i just want to know under for each loop how can i display the currentitem($firstfreecolumn$) . Could you please suggest me the way to do the above. 

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    We can now schedule Power Automate for desktop flows directly from the local machine leveraging Window's Task Scheduler application. You can find more information here.

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