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Hi All,
I need to monitor the the executed actions/sub flows in the power automate desktop.Is there any option available for logging mechanism in the power automate desktop.
Thanks.
Only from the Power Automate portal:
In the old WinAutomation, there is a "Log message" action which allows you to do just that. I don't find this in Power Automate Desktop anymore, so I guess an alternative could be to use "Write text to file" action instead. Hope this helps!
Hi @siyong_liu
How "Write text to file" action works for getting the log message in power automate desktop?
Hi @lisha
We can't extract that value from cloud to write to file into PAD.
@Ahammad_Riyaz
No, I am asking for extracting value from PAD only and write to file.
@lisha
In pad u have to go with add item into list avery every imp action,
last u can specify write text to file.
Hi @Anonymous
As already pointed out by others here, there's no in-built logging system: you'll have to build one.
I'd recommend you to write to file right after any important step you want to record: the problem with writing everything at end is that if any error breaks your bot, you'll end up with no log at all.
Using "Write text to file" is only a workaround solution for now. Based on the 2021 Release Wave 2 Plan for the Microsoft Power Platform, the Log message action will be made available in desktop flows, enabling users to log custom messages.
Hope this helps!
Any sort of additional logging that we could suck out of PAD would be extremely helpful.
I'm finding it excruciatingly frustrating that there isn't even any detail when a simple action fails such as clicking on a UI element, it fails to provide any additional details... like what step of the flow it was on.. or even what the element it was trying to click on... I usually have to figure out where it left off at based on what's on the computer currently. Heaven help me when running unattended actually starts working.
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