Overview: Microsoft Power Automate Desktop
Power Automate Desktop empowers you to automate repetitive tasks on your computer, transforming the way you work. By recording your actions or using pre-built commands, Power Automate Desktop allows you to create automated workflows that streamline processes, increase efficiency, and reduce errors. This powerful tool makes it easy to automate daily tasks, freeing up your time for more strategic activities.
With Power Automate Desktop, you can seamlessly integrate various applications and perform complex operations with just a few clicks. Whether you’re automating data entry, generating reports, or managing files, Power Automate Desktop provides the flexibility and functionality needed to enhance your productivity. Embrace the power of automation with Power Automate Desktop and revolutionize the way you handle repetitive tasks.
Course Details
Course Code: – ;Â Â Duration: 2 Days; Instructor-led
This 2-days instructor-led course is designed to give students an introduction to Desktop Flows, a Desktop flows broaden the existing robotic process automation (RPA) capabilities in Power Automate and enable you to automate all repetitive desktop processes.
Desktop Flows permit integration with legacy desktop and web applications, so that repetitive business processes can be automated and streamlined. Through a series of lectures and hands-on lab exercises, students will learn how to create attended and unattended flows, for both web and desktop scenarios.
Audience
This course designed for beginners who have been using Microsoft 365 for some time and are now looking at optimizing their existing business processes and designing new ones
Prerequisites
The learning outcomes and the benefits of this course are to:
- Discover Project Management Skills.
- Develop career goals and actionable plans.
- Learn to engage and collaborate with Line Managers/Supervisors.
- Address some fundamental challenges during execution.
- Learn to Control the progress and continue improvement.
- Discover the career path of Project Management
Methodology
This program will be conducted with interactive lectures, PowerPoint presentation, discussion and practical exercise.
Course Objectives
no course objective
Outlines
This module provides an introduction and overview of Power Automate Desktop and installation
- Desktop Flow Overview
- Desktop Flow architecture
- Setting up Desktop Flows
- Setting up an on-premises data gateway
In this module, you will learn how to get started with the Microsoft Power Automate for desktop console and flow designer. The console helps you create and handle flows, while the flow designer is the development environment of the platform
- Explore the console and the flow designer.
- Learn how to use the core features of the Power Automate for desktop platform.
- Create and run a flow.
In this module, you will learn how Power Automate for desktop handles common development concepts and tasks, such as actions, variables, conditionals, and loops
- Create a flow from scratch using the flow designer
- Learn how to use actions and variables
- Understand the testing and debugging features of the flow designer
- Configure the error handling properties of individual actions
- Comprehend the use of UI elements and images
- Use subflows to compartmentalize and reuse parts of a flow
You will learn the basics of Power Automate for desktop flows. Additionally, learn how to build the first flow to help automate a repetitive task
- Learn how to use Power Automate to create a new desktop flow.
- Record actions that are performed in a desktop-based application.
- Perform a test run of the new desktop flow
This module defines input and output parameters for desktop flows, which allows your flows to comprehensively handle tasks and processes with conditional input and output
- Learn how to create a desktop flow with predefined inputs.
- Record actions that are performed in the Contoso invoicing desktop application by using your predefined inputs and capturing application data for output.
- Perform a test run of a new desktop flow with a new set of inputs.
This module explains how to use gateways to connect desktop flows to other technology and cloud services and use robotic process automation (RPA) to its fullest potential
- Learn how to create a desktop and cloud flow.
- Add the desktop flow to the new cloud flow.
- Test the new desktop and cloud flows.
This module will learn how to manage desktop flows which you might need to view, edit, or check their status
- View, edit and check Desktop Flow status
- Share desktop flows
- Copy desktop flows
- Monitoring desktop flows activities, runs and queues
