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How to generate .exe file for created PAD flow

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Hi ,

I have created PAD, now my question is how to generate a .exe file for created PAD.am eagerly waiting on this, Thanks in advance.

  • CU16071609-1 Profile Picture
    6,255 Moderator on at

    @Satyanarayana 

    If I grasp the Power Automate Architecture correctly, here are my observations:

    1. Whenever you create flows in Power Automate Desktop and add actions, upon saving, these actions are bundled with packages and sent to the Power Automate Dataverse table. This implies that all your bot code is saved in a data verse table.

    2. And also once you save your flow, you receive a URL to execute it via a WEB API call. Alternatively, you can invoke them through a task scheduler. This implies that you can only call them using a URL and not as an executable file.

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    I'm also aware of Microsoft's pipeline for PAD, and this executable feature isn't currently on their list.

    Hope this clarifies things!

     

     

    Thanks,

    Deenu

  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    You cannot do it. PAD is the only interpreter available for the language behind its code, and it does not support executable files. As @Deenuji correctly pointed out, the flows rely on data stored in the cloud, and are not actually stored locally (except for some cached copies).

     

    If you wanted to create an executable, you would need to reverse-engineer the .dll functions in the PAD directory to find what they actually do as different actions in PAD are invoked, and then possibly copy the code of your PAD flow to your actual executable file. But this would obviously be against the terms of use of Power Automate.

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