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Triggering a flow using CMD

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Posted on by JorianFX 7

I'm looking into to triggering my flow using CMD or using a shortcut on the desktop. This used to be a thing you could do using WinAutomation which Power Automate Desktop replaces. Is there any way to do this? Any I am talking about the desktop part here, so not the cloud stuff!

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  • eric-cheng Profile Picture
    eric-cheng 5,171 on at

    Hi @JorianFX ,

     

    The only way to trigger PAD flows is manually vi PAD or from a cloud flow.

     

    I have posted an idea here and also added in a keyboard shortcut option like many other vendors.  Please feel free to vote

     

    https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Power-Automate-Ideas/Enable-users-to-trigger-attended-PAD-flows-using-keyboard-or/idi-p/1191751#M25857

     

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  • tkuehara Profile Picture
    tkuehara 667 on at

    Hi @JorianFX 

     

    Unable to do it (for now). What you could try to do is to build a custom solution (for example, an AutoIt script that opens PAD Console and clicks the play button).

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