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| Enabled for | Public preview | Early access | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | Aug 2025 |
Business value
Custom action naming enhances flow readability, helping makers and teams understand, debug, and maintain automations. It reduces cognitive load, accelerates onboarding, and fosters collaboration in complex or shared flows. Clear naming also improves traceability in logs, allowing users to quickly identify issues.
Feature details
Power Automate for desktop now lets users assign custom names to actions directly in the flow designer. After adding an action to the designer panel, users can rename it to something meaningful and descriptive. These custom names appear in runtime logs in the Power Automate portal, making it easier to trace, monitor, and troubleshoot specific steps in flows. This enhancement promotes best practices in flow design, improves legibility, and benefits complex workflows or collaborative environments where naming consistency is critical.