The first thing I had to do was use the developer tools (F12) within the browser to help me understand how the urls were formatted for the service and how they worked. You can sign up for one hereįor this example I’m using emails supplied by a service called Tadpole which my kids school uses to send out images and notification. API key for Encodian to utilize their Regex action in your flow.You cannot use the default shared application because it’s not compatible with the Encodian actions or any other external Flow actions.

Application registration for Gmail within the Google console.

Instructions for installation can be found here. This is how the online Power Automate cloud flows will connect to your Desktop Flows. This needs to be installed on your computer, download it here. If you don’t have one you can try it out by signing up for a Developer Plan here. In order to complete all this you will need the following.

The Desktop Flow will download the image and save it to my network drive.The Cloud Flow call the Desktop Flow by connecting through an On-Premise Data Gateway that is installed on my desktop.The Cloud Flow will gather up all the information needed to run the Desktop Flow.A Power Automate Cloud Flow will be triggered to run whenever a new email comes into my Gmail account with a specific tag.The basic flow of the solution will be as follows: This takes me a few minutes every day but my kids are worth it :) This scenario was a perfect one for me to automate using Desktop Flows since they can access the network drive on my desktop.

I open each email, download the image, then move the image to a network drive on my computer. Yesterday like every day I started clicking through the emails that I receive from my kids schools. After watching the RPA (Robotic Process Automation) demo from Steve Winward Real-Life Use case using AI Builder Form Processing with Power Automate Desktop I have been looking for ways to utilize Power Automate Desktop Flows in order to make my life a little easier.

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