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Copy/Duplicate a Cloud Flow in a Solution

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I am a beginning user of Power Automate. I want to create a copy of my first cloud flow to build on. I see this relevant thread from March of 2020: Solved: Copy/Duplicate a Flow in a Solution - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)

 

The built-in capabilities appear to be the same as described almost two years ago:

*The UI supports saving a copy, but

*It is displayed only under the top-level listing of Flows/Cloud Flows, and

*Is not available from Add Existing/Automation/Cloud Flow/From Dataverse within my solution

 

Editing the export file seems crude and risky to me ("no code?"). Is there any easier alternative I am not finding?

  • Pstork1 Profile Picture
    Pstork1 64,741 on at
    Re: Copy/Duplicate a Cloud Flow in a Solution

    Please post this as a new question.  You'll get more responses and others will be able to find the answer more easily later.

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    Kanchan12 8 on at
    Re: Copy/Duplicate a Cloud Flow in a Solution

    I have wrongly shared a flow with my connections, and now i have deleted the template by going share with me tab on templates, Does it mean i am safe and the others can not access the template any more?

  • Re: Copy/Duplicate a Cloud Flow in a Solution

    There is an update coming to allow this in January 2023

    Save a copy of a solution-aware cloud flow into a solution | Microsoft Learn

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    azareei 4 on at
    Re: Copy/Duplicate a Cloud Flow in a Solution

    This is extremely frustrating that you cannot add a copy of your flow to the same solution. Yikes.

    As an alternative, add all the steps in your flow to a Scope and you can copy and paste your whole flow into another flow

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    rgriff50 31 on at
    Re: Copy/Duplicate a Cloud Flow in a Solution

    Thank you @rampprakash and @Pstork1 both interesting and helpful. It is tantalizing to me that one can add existing to a new solution created after the flow copy was created but not a solution existing when the copy was created. Unfortunately I really do want the copy to be in my existing solution. In the end, I went ahead and re-created the flow from scratch. (It was only two steps worth anyway.) Thanks again. I'm impressed at the power of community!

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    Pstork1 Profile Picture
    Pstork1 64,741 on at
    Re: Copy/Duplicate a Cloud Flow in a Solution

    No, at this point there is no easy way to make a copy of an existing flow in a solution and adding the copy to the solution.  As an alternative, you might try exporting the solution and adding it to a different environment as an unmanaged solution.  You can then work on that copy of the flow in that environment without affecting the original.

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    Ram Prakash Profile Picture
    Ram Prakash 5,154 on at
    Re: Copy/Duplicate a Cloud Flow in a Solution

    Hello @gcoleman,

     

    Try clicking Save As button after opening the flow.

     

    For adding in Solutions

    Go to https://make.powerapps.com then click on Solutions then click or create a new solutions then click on Add Existing then clcik cloud flow to add the same.

     

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