Power Automate for desktop - Build 2305

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This article describes the new features, improvements and fixes to existing functionality that are included in this build.

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Installer version 2.32.109.23122 - Microsoft Store version 10.0.6613.0 updates

New Features

  • The Assets library is now available in Power Automate for desktop in preview, allowing users to manage custom actions within their flows, after they have been uploaded to the users’ environment and shared with them.

  • Users can now repair the selectors of UI elements through the selectors screen, to easily and intuitively correct invalid selectors that may be dynamic. More information about this feature can be found here.

  • The action ‘Search for text on terminal session’ has now been added under the Terminal emulation group of actions. This allows users to find the occurrences of a text string within a terminal session, either by exact match or via a regular expression.

Enhancements & Improvements

  • When using the v2 schema of Power Automate, saving desktop flows is now generally faster due to saving only the delta between the previous and the current state.

  • The actions search mechanism in the flow designer has been improved, so that results are now returned, even when:

    • The search key terms are just contained in the module or action names in a different order, rather than matching them exactly.
    • The search key terms are included partly in the action names and partly in the module names.

  • Non-Latin characters included in Unicode are now allowed to be used in the various components, like variables, subflows, labels etc.

  • A custom picker has now been introduced to support range input elements in the recorder.

  • Launching a flow from a desktop shortcut, when the console is terminated, now lets the flow run immediately, instead of waiting for the flow list to load in the console.

  • Apart from the ‘Display message’ action, the ‘Display input dialog’ action can now also be used after creating text with GPT for reviewing and approval purposes.

Repaired Functionality

The following list details issues in Power Automate for desktop that are now resolved:

  • The console is now not restored, when invoking flows that contain valid connection references through a keyboard shortcut.

  • The ‘Refresh’ button now does not disappear in the ‘My flows’ list of the console, after:

    • Creating a copy of a flow from the console’s examples.
    • Launching Power Automate for desktop from the portal.

  • Pressing the ‘Refresh’ button right after deleting a flow now does not throw an exception.

  • Saving an existing flow as a new flow now properly updates their status in the respective flows list of the console.

  • When trying to capture a new image in high contrast mode, the whole screen is now properly visible as expected.

  • An issue with a UI element not being editable after adding a new selector for it has now been resolved.

  • Running a flow while having unresolved warnings now hides the errors list as expected.

  • The additional info of the errors of SharePoint actions are now properly visible in the error details of the redesigned action runtime error window.

  • The subflow filter options in the errors pane are now updated properly, when some subflows are deleted.

  • An intermittent issue with flows, which include subflows that are called recursively, running through the designer and not being able to stop properly, has now been resolved.

  • In v2 schema environments and during recording, trying to minimize a window via the ‘Set window state’ action no longer throws an exception in the designer, after the recording session is complete.

  • The error that is thrown, when trying to rename a UI element with an existing name, now uses the proper element name in its text.

  • Generating a random number list and removing a single number from that list now works as expected.

  • An issue with navigating forward in Google site, while using the Chrome browser, has now been fixed.

  • In Internet Explorer, trying to navigating back when no previous page is available now doesn’t throw an exception.

  • The browser automation actions ‘Click link’ and ‘Populate text field’ now work as expected with physical clicks and keystrokes, in case the scroll-behavior of the webpage is set to "smooth", which makes scrolling not instant.

  • Special keys can now properly be captured during web recording, generating the respective ‘Send keys’ action when needed.

  • An intermittent issue with the recorder’s highlighter in Firefox has now been resolved.

  • Recording now works as expected for Internet Explorer, when the highlighter hovers over a cross-domain iframe element.

  • The recorder no longer hangs when clicking on an MFC combo box.

  • The validation applied to selector names when renaming them now works properly, after deleting an existing selector.

  • A performance issue that appeared when using the recorder on an RDP session has now been resolved.

  • When interacting with desktop shortcuts via the ‘Click UI element’ or ‘Press button in window’ actions, the desktop now becomes visible at runtime, to avoid the possibility of the clicks being blocked by another window.

  • An issue with flows including RDP automation failing, when the automation agent is not already running on the remote machine, has now been resolved.

Other announcements

  • In the OCR actions, the option ‘OCR engine variable’ in the ‘OCR engine type’ dropdown menu has now been deprecated.

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