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Power Automate - Power Automate Desktop
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Can we share Desktop flow to another user

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Posted on 25 Oct 2021 07:20:00 by 32

i have Automated one process for my department and i want that automation to be used by my all department users .

what i have done is i have shared that desktop flow to one user , but that flow is not running on his machine , its running on my machine .

  • adiljay05 Profile Picture
    2 on 22 Apr 2024 at 12:59:32
    Re: Can we share Desktop flow to another user

    Open your flow and press ctrl+a to select all actions. Then press ctrl+c to copy them all.
    Open a blank text file, press ctrl+v. It will paste weired text, just save it and send it to the other user. 
    Other user will have to copy all the text from text file, open a blank(new) flow and then press ctrl+v. It will paste all the actions into his flow. He would just need to save it (he can just press ctrl+s for that)

  • Lalit88 Profile Picture
    32 on 27 Oct 2021 at 10:22:07
    Re: Can we share Desktop flow to another user

    ok in past i have shared as co owner let me retry 

  • Betaboy Profile Picture
    29 on 27 Oct 2021 at 10:01:28
    Re: Can we share Desktop flow to another user

    i usually do this for my training provided to pals. when i create a PAD flow, i just share them so they can execute on their own desktop to check and review the scripts written inside. but you dont share as co-owner. just as user

  • Pavel_NaNoi Profile Picture
    1,072 on 27 Oct 2021 at 10:01:01
    Re: Can we share Desktop flow to another user

    There's another way that someone has mentioned some time ago, simply go into your PAD flow, press CTRL+A then CTRL+C and paste that into a notepad / .txt file. do this for every subflow you have in your flow (have a separate .txt file for each subflow), then zip those files up and send em via email or something. The person on the other side now simply has to unpack those files, go into each .txt file, press CTRL+A, CTRL+C, then go into PAD, create a new flow and in there click on the empty space in PAD and paste via CTRL+V.

     

    Yes this will save all your ui-elements, images, etc. it does have a little bit of trouble when it comes to input/output variables though.

     

  • Betaboy Profile Picture
    29 on 27 Oct 2021 at 09:58:59
    Re: Can we share Desktop flow to another user

    🙂 independent execution from their desktop PAD. if you start your trigger from flow.microsoft.com then you will have the issue. but as i understand you want every user to run on their own desktop. if they login in to PAD, they will see the Desktop flow if it was shared to them. directly click on Run command will slove the issue. hope you are not giving any input variable and taking output variable back to flow for any update.

  • Lalit88 Profile Picture
    32 on 27 Oct 2021 at 09:47:54
    Re: Can we share Desktop flow to another user

    yeah i have shared Desktop flow only not the cloud and yes i am running as attended only , so you mean to say need to run as unattended , and it will run and execute on there machine ?

  • Dion_tw Profile Picture
    66 on 27 Oct 2021 at 09:43:26
    Re: Can we share Desktop flow to another user

    Very strange. Sharing my desktop flow like this (https://docs.microsoft.com/nl-nl/power-automate/desktop-flows/manage ) was the solution for me. You sure this didn't work?

  • Lalit88 Profile Picture
    32 on 27 Oct 2021 at 09:39:43
    Re: Can we share Desktop flow to another user

    Hey , i have done exactly the same but my requirement is that suppose i have 10 users i have to share this flow with 10 users and it should run separately on there respective machine only .

    and as far as i know machine group works like load balancer , if one machine is busy with some flow then another machine will execute that 

  • Betaboy Profile Picture
    29 on 27 Oct 2021 at 09:37:12
    Re: Can we share Desktop flow to another user

    what is the scenario you are trying to do in Power Automate Desktop (PAD)? 

     

    between when you share , please share in Desktop Flow not in Cloud Flows

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    So when the user login in to PAD they will see PAD flow under "Shared with Me option"

     

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    user can directly click on Run button to execute in their desktop

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    if you are running a attended Flow approach then it will take only the provisioned machines only. 

     

  • Dion_tw Profile Picture
    66 on 27 Oct 2021 at 09:36:12
    Re: Can we share Desktop flow to another user

    Ah i see..

    Go to 'Machines' and create a 'Machine group'. You can add users in that group who you want to share your flow with. When they want to run the shared flow, it runs from that shared 'Machine group'.

     

    https://docs.microsoft.com/nl-nl/power-automate/desktop-flows/manage-machine-groups 

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