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Save flow for future retrieval with designer resiliency

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Users, automatically - - Apr 9, 2025

Business value

You don't risk losing your changes when you have flow errors or during an outage. This saves you time by preventing the need to recreate work lost during an outage. It also saves your organization money because it can allocate its resources to fixing outages, rather than taking time away from flow makers.

Feature details

The new designer automatically saves a copy of the flow to browser storage upon a failed save, even with errors. This capability comes in handy on two occasions: 1) When the underlying service is going through an outage and when makers need to avoid losing their unsaved changes by exiting out of their flows, and 2) For non-solution flows, which lack the 'Save draft' functionality, you can exit out of your flow with errors and come back at a later time to fix the errors and save the flow.

A banner appears on the designer notifying you when the designer is able to save the flow copy to the browser's storage. You can now exit your flow.

Upon revisiting the flow on the designer, the previously saved version loads on the designer by default. The unsaved copy is recoverable through the 'Recover' button on the banner.

You can now fix errors on this copy of the flow. If you don't save this copy, the previously saved version of the flow is still accessible upon reloading the tab. However, saving this copy overrides the previously saved version of the flow. It also clears the browser storage, as there are no unsaved changes to the flow.

Selecting 'Recover' loads the unsaved version of flow, replacing the saved version of the flow.

Upon a 'Save' error, or during an outage in Power Automate service, a flow copy is saved to browser.

When makers come back to the designer, their unsaved copy is behind the 'Recover' button.

Additional resources

Explore the cloud flows designer (docs)