We can only run a desktop flow by clicking on it. I know there is a recurrence trigger in Power Automate cloud flows, so I was intuitively looking around for where to configure triggers to my desktop flow - just to realize there aren’t any. Perfect! Now, over on how to run that periodically. Let’s automate that simple task by scheduling execution of the oneliner every week or so.įor executing the oneliner, there is a descriptive and configurable commandline action in Power Automate Desktop. “That’s what I was looking for!”, I thought to myself.Ĭurrently, I’m using Windows Package Manager to keep my installed 3rd party applications updated by opening a command line from time to time and executing the rather long and hard to remember oneliner winget upgrade -all -silent -force -accept-source-agreements -disable-interactivity -include-unknown Let me know on social media what you think about that.Īnyways, isn’t it nice we get the full low-code experience for automation tasks from the cloud to the desktop? Do we, actually? Probably, Power Automate Desktop as a ubiquitous low-code solution will make tools and languages like AutoIt obsolete in the near future.
This is Microsofts take on robotic process automation (RPA) and it reminds me a bit of the old times when I used to play around with AutoIt. And it indeed is awesome - we can choose from more than 400 premade actions to orchestrate our system, tasks and applications and it even allows us to record and replay mouse and keyboard activities. Now available for the everyone as an App for your Windows system. Power Automate is a low-code platform that enables home and business users to optimize their workflows and automate repetitive and time-consuming tasks. Shiny new thing that comes pre-installed with Windows 11 for creating automations on the desktop. And when I see those citizen developers dragging and dropping their low code solutions together real quick and with ease, I think to myself - “well, that’s exactly what I’d like to use for automation, too”. I don’t want to put in too much effort automating my stuff and rather focus on real work to do.
But do we want to? We have to organize, maintain, update, schedule them by ourselves. And yes, we are quite capable of writing small scripts in order to do that.
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