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Launch PAD Flow Via Hotkey?

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Posted on by MatteCrystal

Right now I just bring up the pad window of my Flows and click the play button to run them. How would I activate a flow by pressing Ctrl + Shift + L for example?

I would want to access most of my flows this way plus some of my flows rely on acting upon the foreground window but the foreground application will always be PAD if I need to click the play button there to activate the flow.

I also have a stream deck which I can map launching apps from so if hotkeys aren't possible but directly launching some file is then that would also be helpful.

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miketran13 720 on at

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Hi,

Unfortunately, you can only have a hotkey for terminating your flows / processes but you do not have hotkeys for starting flows / processes.

Thanks and hope it can help you.
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MatteCrystal 12 on at

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Is their anyway to start flows by manually clicking a file like myFlow.flow for example? That way I can use streamdeck and or autohotkey to manually start a flow that way?

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pcand1001 65 on at

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Here is a workaround.
1) Create a flow like described here Flow for desktop
2) Create a powershell script like

$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]" $headers.Add("sig", "Hoz_REPLACEME") $headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded") $headers.Add("Hoz_GREPLACEME", "") $response = Invoke-RestMethod 'https://prod-32.westus.logic.azure.com:443/workflows/REPLACEME/triggers/manual/paths/invoke?api-version=2016-06-01&sp=%2Ftriggers%2Fmanual%2Frun&sv=1.0&sig=REPLACEME' -Method 'POST' -Headers $headers $response | ConvertTo-Json

3) Create shortcut like

%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\PowerShell\StartTeller.ps1"

4) Give your shortcut a hotkey

Voila
BTY, now that you have a script, you can schedule it with Windows task scheduler...
Also added a copy of a shortcut to shell:startup for something I have to do anytime I reboot the machine.

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