What's new and planned for Power Automate
Important
This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, go to What's new in Power Automate?. For the latest release plans, go to Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans.
This topic lists features that are planned to release from April 2022 through September 2022. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released. For more information, go to Microsoft policy.
For a list of the next wave's release plans, go to 2022 release wave 2 plan.
In the General availability column, the feature will be delivered within the month listed. The delivery date can be any day within that month. Released features show the full date, including the date of release.
This check mark (
) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for public preview, early access, and general availability.
Cloud flows
Use the new cloud flows features to automate tasks across hundreds of connectors.
Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
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ISVs can integrate Power Automate capabilities into their products | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Improved home page experience | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Resubmit multiple failed runs at once | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Undo feature in cloud flow designer | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Simplify how solution-aware flows are shared with Azure AD users | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Restore deleted flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Users can view solution references from the flow details page | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Solution checker warns if flows do not meet ALM guidelines | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Solution-aware cloud flows are shown in the my flows list | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Environment variable support for all triggers | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Push environment variable updates into flows asynchronously | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
View trigger output on the run history screen | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Microsoft Dataverse connector supports user connections | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Inform makers about unmanaged layers | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Experience the improved Power Automate mobile app for Android | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Desktop flows
Use the new desktop flows features to automate tasks on the web or desktop.
Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
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Run desktop flows on cloud-hosted machine groups | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Ready-made Example desktop flows in Power Automate for desktop to get started easily | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Physical keyboard interaction in web automation - populate text field on web page | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
UI automation action - hover mouse over UI element in window | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Maintain the structure of the tabular data at extraction from PDF | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Support all types of clicks in browser automation | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Timeout option for Wait for web page in web automation action | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Display custom form action in Power Automate for desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Create data table and array dedicated action | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Make editing of UI elements more user-friendly | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Perform Java automation in SWT framework applications | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Run desktop flows through external links | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Use more data types for input and output variables | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
View desktop flow details through the console | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Retrieve text when given before and after subtext flags | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Use the new Excel action for column auto-sizing | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Run desktop flows through desktop shortcut | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
New option to build flows in Power Automate for desktop recorder | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | ![]() |
Desktop flow machines and runs - status health, analytics, and error reporting improvements | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
- | To be announced |
Process advisor
Process advisor quickly captures detailed steps for each process in your organization to help you better understand your options to streamline workflows.
Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
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Process advisor improved connector recommendations for automate activities | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Analyze your flow runs with enhanced analytics using the time analysis report | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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Improve cloud flows with process insights | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | ![]() |
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* You are able to opt into some features as part of early access on January 31, 2022, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.
Description of Enabled for column values:
Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are enabled automatically.
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, marketers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.
Users by admins, makers, or analysts: These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, go to the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and datacenters (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.