Optimize desktop flows intelligently
Important
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| Enabled for | Public preview | Early access | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | Aug 2025 | - | - |
Business value
The optimize desktop flows with intelligent insights and recommendations feature delivers significant business value by proactively offering data-driven recommendations during the desktop flow creation process. This ensures higher efficiency and reduces the likelihood of errors, allowing you to build more robust and performant automations. By leveraging historical flow data, usage patterns, and design best practices, this feature empowers you to swiftly identify and resolve potential issues, optimize code, and adhere to best practices. This ultimately enhances productivity and reduces maintenance costs.
Feature details
The optimize desktop flows with intelligent insights and recommendations feature in Power Automate for desktop is designed to provide users with proactive, intelligent recommendations during the creation of desktop flows. This feature leverages historical flow data, usage patterns, runtime performance, error profiles, and established best practices to offer tailored, context-sensitive insights that can significantly enhance the efficiency and reliability of your automations.
In the Error Avoidance category, this feature helps prevent run-time errors by alerting users to potential issues before they occur. For example, it can warn of data loss prevention (DLP) policy violations that could cause a flow to fail, and it offers workarounds where possible. It also identifies elements that violate flow checker policies and suggests automatic remediations. Furthermore, it detects previous selector failures and self-healing events, recommending users to review or remediate these selectors accordingly. This feature also highlights potential flow timeouts by analyzing past run history, and it offers code-scanning recommendations to avoid pitfalls like infinite loops or uninitialized instances.
In the Error Remediation category, this feature assists in fixing design-time errors that might otherwise go unnoticed. It provides suggestions to complete any missing action properties, including variables, and helps correct syntax errors in Robin or Power Fx. This guidance ensures that flows are logically sound and free from common errors, making the development process smoother and more efficient.
The Code Optimization category focuses on improving the performance and maintainability of desktop flows. This feature suggests more performant or understandable actions, identifies logical shortcomings, and proposes possible solutions. It recommends wrapping actions in try & catch blocks to handle exceptions gracefully. It adds comments or regions for better readability, and breaks large subflows into smaller, more manageable units. These optimizations enhance flow performance and make the code easier to understand and maintain. The AI-powered Copilot facilitates these improvements by providing clear remediation steps and linking to relevant documentation. This empowers you to implement best practices with ease and confidence.