{"id":7587,"date":"2022-02-20T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/power-automate-for-desktop-february-2022-update\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:50:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:50:48","slug":"power-automate-for-desktop-february-2022-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/power-automate-for-desktop-february-2022-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Automate for desktop &#8211; February 2022 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce that the February 2022 update of Power Automate for desktop (version 2.17) has been released! You can download the latest release <a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?linkid=2102613\">here<\/a>. New features and updates have been added, as described below.<\/p>\n<h2>Monitoring notification window for console attended desktop flow runs<\/h2>\n<p>The console now comes with a new dropdown menu for notifications, which allows for one of the following options:<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Notification options\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7594\" height=\"659\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2022\/02\/Notification-options.png\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Notification-options.webp 613w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Notification-options-205x300.webp 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>The built-in flow monitoring notification window is able to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stop or pause the flow<\/li>\n<li>Display the current status and duration of the running flow<\/li>\n<li>Show the name of the running flow, name of the current\u00a0subflow, current action number and name of current action<\/li>\n<li>Minimize or move around the screen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Monitoring notification window\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7593\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2022\/02\/Monitoring-notification-window.png\" width=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Monitoring-notification-window.webp 777w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Monitoring-notification-window-300x180.webp 300w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Monitoring-notification-window-768x461.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Performance improvements in flow designer<\/h2>\n<p>There are several performance fixes coming in this release, on top of the ones made in January&#8217;s release, some of which improve the speed of:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Adding\/deleting\/editing\/moving an action inside Main or any other subflow.<\/li>\n<li>Navigating from one\u00a0subflow\u00a0to another.<\/li>\n<li>Saving (Saving delay might also be caused from DLP or a slow network).<\/li>\n<li>Enabling\/disabling actions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>New \u2018Display custom form\u2019 action (Preview)<\/h2>\n<p>\u2018Display custom form\u2019 is a new action in preview, with which\u00a0users will be able to create their own dialog (based on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/adaptivecards.io\/\">Adaptive Cards<\/a>\u00a0technology). They will be able to combine the controls and elements of their choice into a single dialog window, via which they can display information or request input data that can be used in their automations.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Custom form\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7591\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2022\/02\/Custom-form.png\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Custom-form.webp 537w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Custom-form-214x300.webp 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>The custom form action comes with an intuitive designer for the users to configure their dialog according to their needs.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Custom form designer\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7590 size-full\" height=\"1351\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2022\/02\/Custom-form-designer.png\" width=\"1799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Custom-form-designer.webp 1799w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Custom-form-designer-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Custom-form-designer-1024x769.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Custom-form-designer-768x577.webp 768w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Custom-form-designer-1536x1153.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1799px) 100vw, 1799px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>New actions to convert a file to base64 and vice versa<\/h2>\n<p>Two new actions are introduced to Power Automate for desktop:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Convert file to Base64<\/li>\n<li>Convert Base64 to file<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Convert file to Base64\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7588 size-large\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2022\/02\/Convert-file-to-Base64-1024x703.png\" width=\"525\"\/><\/h2>\n<p>A file is sent over the internet (typically via an API) as a Base64 encoded string representation. By allowing the users to easily convert a file to Base64 string and vice versa, file transfer over the internet is facilitated.<\/p>\n<h2>New \u2018Extract tables from PDF\u2019 action<\/h2>\n<p>With this new action, users will be able to automatically identify and extract all structured data tables from a PDF document, making it fast and easy to prepare and use tabular data from PDF files in their flow.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Extract tables from PDF\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7592 size-large\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2022\/02\/Extract-tables-from-PDF-1024x917.png\" width=\"525\"\/><\/h2>\n<h2>New property for datatable variables<\/h2>\n<p>In every\u00a0datatable variable, there is now a new property of\u00a0datarow\u00a0type, called &#8216;ColumnHeadersRow&#8217;, which holds the column names of the said table. This will enable writing these column headers in a row (for example, in Excel) in an easy and straightforward way, rather than relying on the existing &#8216;Columns&#8217; property, which returns the column headers in the form of a list.<\/p>\n<h2>Renaming variables to existing names is now permitted<\/h2>\n<p>Users will now be able\u00a0to rename flow variables or create a new input\/output variable using an existing flow variable name, merging them via the respective confirmation dialog.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rename variable\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7595 size-full\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2022\/02\/Rename-variable.png\" width=\"1573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Rename-variable.webp 1573w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Rename-variable-300x91.webp 300w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Rename-variable-1024x310.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Rename-variable-768x232.webp 768w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Rename-variable-1536x465.webp 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1573px) 100vw, 1573px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>New ability to copy a subflow and paste in other flows<\/h2>\n<p>Users can now easily copy a\u00a0subflow\u00a0from one desktop flow, and paste it in the same or different desktop flows.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Copy subflow\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7589 size-full\" height=\"611\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2022\/02\/Copy-subflow.png\" width=\"1468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Copy-subflow.webp 1468w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Copy-subflow-300x125.webp 300w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Copy-subflow-1024x426.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Copy-subflow-768x320.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1468px) 100vw, 1468px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>Auto clean up of local actions log file<\/h2>\n<p>In this release, we will be deleting the actions log file, found in the user\u2019s local app data folder, after the completion of a flow run. For users that may want to keep those files, there will be the option of setting a registry key that will disable their cleanup.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hoping that you will find the above updates useful, please feel free to provide your questions and feedback in the <a href=\"https:\/\/powerusers.microsoft.com\/t5\/Microsoft-Power-Automate\/ct-p\/MPACommunity\">Power Automate Community<\/a>. If you want to learn more about Power Automate Desktop, get started with the below resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/power-automate\/desktop-flows\/introduction\">Learn more about Power Automate for desktop in our documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/#home-signup\">Sign up for a free Power Automate trial<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?linkid=2102613\" style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Download Power Automate for desktop<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power Automate for desktop comes with several new additions in February 2022 release, including a new monitoring notification window, more performance improvements during flow authoring and some new actions like &#8216;Display custom form&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ms_queue_id":[],"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","_alt_title":"","ms-ems-related-posts":[],"footnotes":""},"audience":[3378],"content-type":[3424],"job-role":[],"product":[3474],"property":[],"topic":[],"coauthors":[2965],"class_list":["post-7587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","audience-it-professional","content-type-news","product-power-automate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Power Automate for desktop - February 2022 update - Microsoft Power Platform Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/2022\/02\/20\/power-automate-for-desktop-february-2022-update\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Power Automate for desktop - February 2022 update - Microsoft Power Platform Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Power Automate for desktop comes with several new additions in February 2022 release, including a new monitoring notification window, more performance improvements during flow authoring and some new actions like &#039;Display custom form&#039;.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/power-automate-for-desktop-february-2022-update\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Microsoft Power Platform Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-20T12:25:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-11T14:50:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2022\/02\/Notification-options.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"613\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"898\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Yiannis Mavridis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Yiannis Mavridis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/2022\/02\/20\/power-automate-for-desktop-february-2022-update\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/2022\/02\/20\/power-automate-for-desktop-february-2022-update\/\"},\"author\":[{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cm-edgetun.pages.dev\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/author\/yiannis-mavridis\/\",\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@name\":\"Yiannis Mavridis\"}],\"headline\":\"Power Automate for desktop &#8211; 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