Get Started with Power Automate Deskop (Install and create RPA)

This video tutorial shows how to install and create your first Microsoft Power Automate Desktop RPA automation. It's easy to get started after installing and setting up Power Automate Desktop, we create our first automation, where we open an application and perform various actions in it (e.g. type and click) and finally close the application again. You'll get a basic understanding of automating the UI elements including the selectors.

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0:00 Installing Power Automate Desktop
Microsoft just made their RPA tool free to use, and in this guide, we'll see how to install Power Automate Desktop and create your first RPA robot. If you're running Windows 11, you already have Power Automate Desktop installed. If you're at Windows 10, you just have to install the free installer from the Microsoft homepage. Next, pick the default settings and remember to enable the Chrome and Edge browser extensions, so we can do browser automation. Finally, sign in with your Microsoft credentials.

2:19 Our first Power Automate Desktop Robot
Actions are predefined code blocks ready to use, and in the Main, our code goes. We create a robot that opens an application = Notepad here because you all have it on your computer. The intuition is the same in Notepad and more advanced applications such as SAP or Salesforce. We use the action Run application to open an application. Provide the application path of the application you want to automate. Use the Display message action to pause the robot and deliver a message to the developer/user/viewer. To type text into Notepad we use the Populate text field in window action, where we create a UI element (the place where we want to add the text). The best practice is to rename your UI element to make it easy to develop and maintain your robot. Experiment by moving the actions in a different order and see how they're performed by the robot. To close the Notepad again, use a Close window activity. The Click UI element in window lets us click any UI element in our application.

14:09 Power Automate Desktop Discord Community

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[GideonAbochie]

Wow!!! Are you a great teacher or it's my mind?!

[DaveTheRPAGuy]

Nice tutorial. I giggled a bit when you initially ran a test to close notepad and it popped up asking to confirm if you want to save or not. So classic in RPA. Haha! “Oh you wanna close that window? Well you’ve got a few dialog pop-ups to deal with first!”

[Maheshpatel-fytu]

Nice Explanation Anders ! Power Automate is user friendly and very simple & easy to use also very clean UI compare to UiPath.

[utkarshmadaksira]

Sir, why don't you start a series on Power Automate? From beginner to advanced. Thank you.

[SystemPromowania]

Thank for this tutorial.
How to execute or schedule this robots?

[husbandskitchen]

Hey Anders, it was a good session!! How about making complete UI automation with Power Automate ? Is that possible ?

[sirishayerramasu]

Can you do video on how to extract pdf data and tables using canvas app without using AI builder. Thanks in advance!!

[aristia]

Sir, can this be used to create a Facebook marketplace chatbot, data from csv files?

[ashrafhossain]

Hello Anders, how I can solve the DLP issue?

[electronicgenius]

this is always in startup before you open the windows