What's new and planned for Power Automate
Important
This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, go to What's new in Power Automate?. For the latest release plans, go to Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans.
This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2021 through September 2021. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released. For more information, go to Microsoft policy.
In the General availability column, the feature will be delivered within the month listed. The delivery date can be any day within that month. Released features show the full date, including the date of release.
This check mark (
) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for public preview, early access, and general availability.
Cloud flows
As part of our Digital Process Automation offering, there are several new capabilities for users of cloud flows.
Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
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Search records in Microsoft Dataverse with relevance search | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | ![]() |
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Trigger flows when a Microsoft Dataverse action is called | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Contextual automation in Power BI | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Governance capabilities to prevent data loss | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Use environment variables to simplify application lifecycle management | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Development as a team sport - Copresence in Power Automate | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Desktop flows
As part of our Robotic Process Automation offering, there are several new capabilities for users of desktop flows.
Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
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Desktop recorder now supports image-based recording | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Enhanced copy and paste feature | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
New save as functionality in Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Refresh the list of flows from the Power Automate Desktop console | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Support for Java apps and Java applets | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Add timeout parameter in launch browser actions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Extra options in the help section of console and designer | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Power Automate Desktop update notifications | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Enhance Dynamics 365 apps with robotic process automation | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Support for unattended RPA trials for non-admins | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Desktop recorder automatically switches to image recording when it detects Remote Desktop or Citrix windows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Improvements in configuration of Windows-related actions | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
New action to take screenshots of a UI element | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Power Automate Desktop detects proxy settings | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Remove unused UI elements and images from repositories | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
The convert datetime to text action shows a sample of the selected format | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
The set variable action supports multiline text | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Run desktop flow ability to call desktop flows from other desktop flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Actionable connectivity error messages in Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
New Excel actions in Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Option to select screen resolution | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Invoke SOAP web service action | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
New getting started experience in Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Power Automate can start desktop automation without using the on-premises data gateway | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Support for RPA machine clusters with automatic load balancing | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Document automation
Intelligent document processing provides an end-to-end experience combining the best of AI Builder and Power Automate.
Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
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Additional capabilities for document automation | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Process advisor
Process advisor is a capability that reveals insights into how people work and provides visualizations for users to identify processes suited for automation.
Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
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Process advisor is now generally available | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Edit and annotate process recordings | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Invite colleagues to process recordings | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Record repetitive, manual processes with Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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View process maps and analytics for your processes | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Process advisor March 2021 updates | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Import and export processes from process advisor | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Application insights for process advisor | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Automation recommendations in process advisor | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
- | To be announced |
* You are able to opt in to some features as part of early access on February 1, 2021, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.
Description of Enabled for column values:
Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are enabled automatically.
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, marketers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.
Users by admins, makers, or analysts: These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, go to the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and datacenters (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.