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Can we share Desktop flow to another user

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Posted on by Lalit88

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 .

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Betaboy 29 on at

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can you post the clip of the desktop flow how you shared and what you are trying to automate.

hope you are not using this connector to call your PAD. if you are using this, then it will call the machine it was configured.

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Lalit88 32 on at

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hey yes i am using this connector only
below is clip
and below is some background
i have created few Desktop Automation flows those are running on my laptop fine , so now i have to share those flows with my collogue , so that they can also run that flow and use it. so i shared those flows with some users and created machine group and added those users in that group , so now what is happening is if i run that flow that is executing on my machine which is fine , but if any other user runs that flow its still executing flow on my machine only.
what i want is i want to share those flows with users and it should independently run that flows on there respective machine only

i have 3 flows like one , two and three and this option i am giving in my my chat bot , so basically user will be selecting any option from (one , two and three) and that flow will run ( i am calling desktop flow from power virtual Agent ) as shown in below image .
i this bot will be shared to that department and any user selects that option then that flow should run and execute on that user machine

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salilathalye 2 on at

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Log in to Power Automate (cloud).
Select Desktop Flows, you may need to set up a trial - after which it should show you all Desktop flows.
Select the flow and you can share it so that other people can run it but not edit it.

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Lalit88 32 on at

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Yeah , but it will still run on my machine only right even if i share by this method ?

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Dion_tw 66 on at

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Have you tried this yet? --> https://docs.microsoft.com/nl-nl/power-automate/desktop-flows/manage
I think thats the answer to your question:)

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Lalit88 32 on at

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thanks for reply , yes i have tried this but i am having issue is like , suppose if i shared flow with you , and when you run the flow its executes on my machine , i have that issue any suggestions on this ?

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Dion_tw 66 on at

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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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Betaboy 29 on at

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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

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

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

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

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Lalit88 32 on at

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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

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Dion_tw 66 on at

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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?

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