Find yourself doing the same all over again? Learn how desktop flows can do the job for you by interacting with your everyday tools and free up time to do more important things
Key Features
- Learn how to automate recurring tasks with Office programs
- Maintain high-quality level by including daily desktop and web applications in your flows
- Enrich your flows with additional AI-based information and integrate them with cloud systems
Book Description
Whether you want to organize simple files, perform more complex consolidations between different Office programs, or remote control applications that don't actually allow outside access, Power Automate Desktop helps meet these challenges.
In this book, the underlying concept of RPA is introduced step by step. You start with very simple flows that can be easily recorded and further processed with the built-in recorder. Afterward, more advanced actions are used to automate folder and file management and, for example, to let the Office programs interact with each other. After this, you will learn how Desktop Flows can be integrated into other cloud environments and how even more value can be added by using AI. Last but not least, you will learn how Flows can run unattended and how they are managed in the Power Platform.
By the end of the book, you will be able to become a Power Automate Desktop Expert, automating both professional and personal tasks. You will be able to understand all necessary concepts in the product from creating and modifying UI flows over debugging to error handling. You will be able to use PAD in conjunction with your most used systems on your desktop and be able to automate tasks with these.
What you will learn
- Become a Power Automate Desktop Expert by automating both professional and personal tasks. Understand all necessary concepts in the product from creating and modifying UI flows over debugging to error handling.
- Use PAD in conjunction with your most used systems on your desktop and be able to automate tasks with these
- Learn how to configure flows that run unattended
- Learn how to use AI to enrich your flows with insights from different AI models
- Explore how to integrate a flow in a broader cloud context
Who This Book Is For
Whether you are a home user who wants to automate simple tasks on your workstation or a business user / citizen developer who needs to automate more complex rule-based processes, this book will help you to accomplish the challenge. In principle, no knowledge of a programming language is assumed. In the more advanced chapters however, a general understanding of information technology is helpful, for example very basic programming language structures, protocols and cloud concepts.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to RPA and Power Automate Desktop
- Using Power Automate Desktop and creating first flow
- Debug and editing existing flows
- Understanding details and basic structure elements of PAD
- Variables (input / output, flow), UI Elements and Images
- Actions for UI automation
- Automate your Desktop and Workstation
- Automate any application and the web
- Extend PAD functionality by the use of cloud services and Power Platform
- Leveraging AI (IBM, Google, Microsoft)
- Managing and Monitoring PAD flows
- Practical example
