Direct sensitive input and variables or expressions can be used interchangeably in some action fields
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| Enabled for | Public preview | Early access | General availability |
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| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 
Dec 11, 2020 |
Business value
Users can either provide direct encrypted input or use variables for their sensitive data, if for instance they need to be provided multiple times.
Feature details
With this feature, the Power Automate designer and the recorders can use direct encrypted input in the following actions, which provide text input to target fields:
- Populate text field on webpage
- Populate text field in window
- Send keys
- Set text on terminal session
This functionality is available when you manually create or edit a desktop flow. It's also available through the web and desktop recorders, allowing the user to protect text data that should not be visible on screen.
Along with direct sensitive input, password fields can also accept variables that were defined earlier.