Month: December 2023

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2.

The 5th of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is make changes in draft mode for solution cloud flows.

Users have told us that they’re unable to begin creating or editing a flow until they have a large amount of time available because they can’t pause halfway through. Makers can now make changes to solution cloud flows in draft mode and publish when changes are complete. This allows the flexibility to create and edit regardless of the amount of time available, so you can concentrate on other tasks.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Nov 2023

Feature Details

Currently, makers can’t save a flow with errors and can’t save a draft version of a flow. With this feature, makers can make changes to solution cloud flows in draft mode, including when there are errors and publish when changes are complete.

My Opinion

Now this is the feature I have been wanting since I started working with Power Automate. It’s such a basic thing, that I have been amazed that you couldn’t save a flow part way through working on it and come back to finish it later.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2.

The 4th of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is use the new cloud flows designer with Copilot.

With the cloud flows designer with Copilot, Power Automate cloud flow makers are able to create and edit flows that are scalable, robust, and modern.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 8, 2023

Feature Details

You can create, configure, and customize your cloud flows with the classic designer or the cloud flows designer with copilot capabilities. Makers can create and edit their flows in the new cloud flows designer with Copilot experience by default.

My Opinion

I’ve not been hands on with any of the copilots yet, so it will be interesting to see how well this works, and how good the flows it designs are.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2.

The 3rd of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is use OAuth support for HTTP request triggers.

Makers can use enhanced security measures for HTTP request triggers. For example, makers can restrict what users can trigger in this workflow by ensuring that only authenticated users can trigger this workflow. They can further define the security scope by choosing among three modes for the authentication parameter.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: –
General Availability: Oct 8, 2023

Feature Details

Prior to this feature, when makers created a flow that had an HTTP request trigger, the flow generated a shared access signature (SAS) URL. This URL was typically used by developers to trigger workflows from within their own applications or services. This feature provides added security to this trigger by enabling developers to limit who can trigger this workflow.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2.

The 2nd of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is store cloud flow execution history in Microsoft Dataverse.

You can use your Dataverse instances to build custom, longer-term reports based on the flow execution history.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Nov 2023
General Availability: –

Feature Details

With this feature, you can use Dataverse to store your flow execution data. This enables you to:

• Build custom reports for automation ROI (return on investment), monitoring, and more.
• Retain flow execution records for longer than 30 days.
• Centralize the automation execution storage data across cloud and desktop flows.

My Opinion

It will be interesting to see how this works, but on the surface this sounds like it should be useful.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Power Automate 2023 Wave 2.

The 1st of the new functionality in the Cloud Flows section is monitor performance for cloud and desktop flow activities.

You can use a central consolidated view to monitor and understand the executions across cloud and desktop flows.

Enabled for: Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically
Public Preview: Nov 2023
General Availability: –

Feature Details

With this feature, you have a single consolidated view to understand the automation performance across your cloud and desktop flows. This feature enables you to:

• Understand the top trends across all of your automation assets (for example, success and failure) across different time periods.
• Understand top errors and their trends.
• Understand top flows with specific errors.
• Seamlessly switch between cloud and desktop flows activity.

My Opinion

This sounds like it should be a very good enhancement, giving you better ability to monitor flows and see where errors are happening. As the number of flows in use grows, it can become harder to keep track of individual ones, so improved monitoring seems to be really good.

This post is part of a series on the new functionality announced for Wave 2 of Microsoft Power Automate 2023. There are two release waves for Power Automate each year, with functionality being released over the six months of the wave.

In this series of posts, I am going to take a look at what is new with Power Automate in this release wave. My understanding is the announced new functionality will become available in the six months of the wave, so not all of it will be available immediately. When posting about some new functionality, I’ll try to indicate where something will be available in October or later. Microsoft do reserve the right to withdraw announced functionality before release; when this happens, I’ll try to publish an article on the removed functionality and update the original article I published to state it has been removed from that release wave.

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