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Published inAug 2022
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Aaron Guilmette
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Aaron Guilmette is a Senior Program Manager with the Microsoft 365 Customer Experience, helping customers adopt and deploy the Microsoft 365 platform. He primarily focuses on collaborative technologies, including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, and Azure Active Directory.
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Learning about actions and variable passing

In this chapter, we’re going to introduce a few new concepts that relate to working with Power Automate Desktop, specifically around the action to run a Power Automate Desktop flow and how to pass variables from the cloud to a desktop application.

Run a flow built with Power Automate for desktop action

The Power Automate Desktop application can’t read or use cloud triggers. Using the connectivity established through the data gateway, however, Power Automate Desktop can receive the instructions it needs to execute the flows it’s responsible for.

Variable passing

Variables are a programming construct used to store temporary information. Programmers use variables as a kind of placeholder for content that changes (or varies) when an application, script, or process is run. Through the use of a variable, an application can substitute the actual value in place of the variable during execution.

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Published in: Aug 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803237671

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Aaron Guilmette

Aaron Guilmette is a Senior Program Manager with the Microsoft 365 Customer Experience, helping customers adopt and deploy the Microsoft 365 platform. He primarily focuses on collaborative technologies, including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, and Azure Active Directory.
Read more about Aaron Guilmette