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| Enabled for | Public preview | Early access | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 
Nov 6, 2025 |
Business value
With scoped variables, you get more flexible and maintainable automations in Power Automate for desktop. Scoped variables keep your subflows independent, so you avoid unexpected changes and make updates easier. This approach helps you build modular workflows that are easier to manage.
Feature details
You can now create subflows as global or local in Power Automate for desktop. When you create a local subflow, any variable you add is local to that subflow and you can't access it from outside the subflow. With local subflows, you can set up input and output variables.
The Run subflow action shows input variables as fields for arguments and displays output variables for local subflows. In the variables pane, you can see which variables belong to a subflow and which variables are global. Use filters to quickly find variables.
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