What's new and planned for Power Automate

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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
ISVs can integrate Power Automate capabilities into their products Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Aug 15, 2022 - -
Improved home page experience Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Apr 1, 2022
Resubmit multiple failed runs at once Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Apr 1, 2022
Undo feature in cloud flow designer Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Apr 1, 2022
Simplify how solution-aware flows are shared with Azure AD users Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Apr 14, 2022
Restore deleted flows Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - May 5, 2022
Users can view solution references from the flow details page Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - May 12, 2022
Solution checker warns if flows do not meet ALM guidelines Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - May 26, 2022
Solution-aware cloud flows are shown in the my flows list Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - May 26, 2022
Environment variable support for all triggers Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Jun 13, 2022
Push environment variable updates into flows asynchronously Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Jul 31, 2022
View trigger output on the run history screen Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Aug 15, 2022
Microsoft Dataverse connector supports user connections Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Sep 11, 2022
Inform makers about unmanaged layers Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Sep 27, 2022
Experience the improved Power Automate mobile app for Android Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Sep 29, 2022

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
Run desktop flows on cloud-hosted machine groups Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically May 23, 2022 - -
Ready-made Example desktop flows in Power Automate for desktop to get started easily Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Apr 14, 2022
Physical keyboard interaction in web automation - populate text field on web page Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Apr 15, 2022
UI automation action - hover mouse over UI element in window Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Apr 15, 2022
Maintain the structure of the tabular data at extraction from PDF Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - May 13, 2022
Support all types of clicks in browser automation Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - May 13, 2022
Timeout option for Wait for web page in web automation action Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - May 13, 2022
Display custom form action in Power Automate for desktop Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Feb 21, 2022 - May 13, 2022
Create data table and array dedicated action Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Jun 28, 2022
Make editing of UI elements more user-friendly Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Jun 29, 2022
Perform Java automation in SWT framework applications Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Jun 29, 2022
Run desktop flows through external links Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Jun 29, 2022
Use more data types for input and output variables Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Jun 29, 2022
View desktop flow details through the console Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Jul 25, 2022
Retrieve text when given before and after subtext flags Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Aug 14, 2022
Use the new Excel action for column auto-sizing Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Aug 16, 2022
Run desktop flows through desktop shortcut Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Sep 5, 2022
New option to build flows in Power Automate for desktop recorder Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically - - Sep 30, 2022
Desktop flow machines and runs - status health, analytics, and error reporting improvements Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Aug 16, 2022 - 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
Process advisor improved connector recommendations for automate activities Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Jun 19, 2022 - -
Analyze your flow runs with enhanced analytics using the time analysis report Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Jul 31, 2022 - -
Improve cloud flows with process insights Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically Aug 21, 2022 - -

* 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.