Power Automate for desktop - Build 2501

This article describes the new features, improvements and fixes to existing functionality that are included in this build.

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Installer version 2.52.62.25009 - Microsoft Store version 11.2501.297.0 - NET8 Store version 11.2501.298.0 updates

New Features

• Copilot can now be used to help you quickly understand desktop flows by summarizing actions and/or subflows (in preview).

• In the ‘Run desktop flow’ action, a new toggle property is now available that allows the concurrent run of a child desktop flow, in parallel with its parent flow that invoked it. This configuration is useful for scenarios, where unexpected popups in the target application may block certain actions of the parent flow.

• A new group of dedicated Access actions is now available out of the box, permitting the use of direct Access operations.

• Excel, Word and Outlook instance variables are now supported as input/output variables in desktop flows, accommodating the respective variable types when passing information from one desktop flow to another.

• The action ‘On block error’ now supports retry policies, as is already the case for individual actions’ error handling. If a retry policy is set and an error occurs, retrying will take place from the beginning of the block.

Enhancements & Improvements

• The navigation bar in the console has now been adjusted to appear vertically, including a single Flows tab for own and shared flows. The flow search text field and the Refresh button have also been repositioned, while the flow icons have been redesigned.

• In the Invoke web service action, for POST and PUT requests, a new option is now available to upload file or binary attachments.

• A new toggle property has been added in the ‘Close SAP connection’ action, to close the running SAP application after closing the last connection.

• Action logs in V2 can now be progressively uploaded, offering near-real-time log observability during desktop flow runs and reducing the finalization time for long-running flows.

• In cloud connector actions, certain types of connections that require specific connection parameters to be created are now supported.

• The Admin Center’s setting to disable embedded connection references in an environment is now properly consumed in affected desktop flows, displaying the proper banner message.

• When no credentials are available to be retrieved in the ‘Get credential’ action, a button to add a new credential is now available, opening the Credentials page in the portal.

• A new category has been added to the troubleshooter window, helping diagnose potential issues related to Dataverse.

• Before starting to record with Copilot, you can now test your microphone through the respective window to ensure that your audio input device is working.

• The first run experience while recording with Copilot is now limited to the first few runs of the said functionality.

• In the ‘Get credential’ action, a new error code has now been introduced for handling cases where no CyberArk application is defined for a machine.

• Some error messages have now been updated to provide clearer guidance when connectors or operations are missing.

• Pager highlighting in cross-domain iframes in Internet Explorer now works as expected.

• GridView control types are now also available for extracting data from tables.

Repaired Functionality

The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:

• An issue with the Copilot recorder’s yellow border flickering has now been resolved.

• An issue with the Copilot recorder’s launch button not having a hovered or pressed state has now been resolved.

• Certain fixes have taken place for dark mode:

  • The Copilot recorder’s countdown when the recording starts is now properly visible.
  • Some images used in light mode have now been replaced with the dark mode’s proper ones.
  • A contrast issue in the errors list, when filters are applied, has now been resolved.
  • The line numbers in the designer are now properly accessible.
  • The Pin and Sensitive icons in the variables pane are now properly accessible.
  • The contrast issue on the button ‘Describe with Copilot’ has now been resolved.
  • The contrast issue on the status bar icon when the flow is running or paused has now been resolved.

• In the .NET8 Microsoft Store version, clicking the link to the verbose logs folder in the troubleshooter window now properly opens that folder.

• The keyboard shortcuts to pause/resume or stop the flow now work properly, when the flow started running through a desktop shortcut.

• A proper error message is now displayed, when a Dynamics 365 organization is disabled and can’t be accessed.

• An issue occurring when opening and closing an example flow in the console has now been resolved.

• The appropriate message is now displayed in the console, when the user has insufficient permissions on the environment.

• Some Narrator focus issues in the assets library window have now been resolved.

• An unhandled error that was thrown when the user tried to save a label with a whitespace character has now been resolved.

• The proper message is now shown for service unavailable exceptions in OneDrive, when a save operation fails for a user with a free Microsoft account.

• A null reference exception that could occur in connector operations with dynamic calls, as well as another null reference exception thrown when building the request for some operations, have now been resolved.

• An issue with flows including infinite recursions leading to stack overflow has now been resolved.

• In the ‘Run .NET script’ action, the line numbers that are displayed in runtime errors are now correct (1-based index).

• An issue where the RPA agent crashes, due to a null process instance when the process exits, has now been resolved.

• An issue occurring when editing a Run desktop flow action and then immediately saving the flow has now been resolved.

• When using the recorder in RDP sessions, the ‘Send keys’ action is now correctly configured with the proper window handle.

• Τhe IE Live helper window now properly works with HTML dialogs, when launching or attaching to a browser.

• Some additional checks for array length have now been added before accessing elements, to prevent the corresponding errors when capturing those elements.

• Some accessibility issues on the flow error repairing functionality have now been addressed.

• An issue related to clicking on a grid view in SAP that opens a dialog window has now been addressed.

• An issue where capturing a fallback image selector fails if the bounds are empty is now resolved.

• When a fallback image selector is repaired, the preview selector pane now properly shows the previous image.

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