Use more data types for input and output variables

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Business value

Users can now pass additional input and output variable types apart from basic strings, which wasn't possible before this feature.

Feature details

Power Automate for desktop can now work with more input and output variable types, including:

  • Text
  • Number
  • Boolean
  • Custom Object
  • List
  • Data table

Note: a cloud flow can pass a data table to a desktop flow, as a List of Objects.

See also

Input and output variables (docs)