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What's new and planned for Power Automate
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This content is archived and is not being updated. For the latest documentation, see Microsoft Power Platform product documentation. For the latest release plans, see Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform release plans.
This topic lists features that are planned to release from October 2020 through March 2021. Because this topic lists features that may not have released yet, delivery timelines may change and projected functionality may not be released. For more information, go to Microsoft policy.
- For a list of the previous wave's release plans, go to 2020 release wave 1 plan.
- For a list of the next wave's release plans, go to 2021 release wave 1 plan.
In the General availability column, the feature will be delivered within the month listed. The delivery date can be any day within that month. Released features show the full date, including the date of release.
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) shows which features have been released for public preview or early access and for public preview, early access, and general availability.
Integration with Microsoft Teams
Create and use Power Automate flows within Microsoft Teams.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Templatizing and distributing common business process scenarios | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Nov 12, 2020 |
New desktop flow (RPA) capabilities
Increase scale and app compatibility with these new robotics process automation (RPA) capabilities.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Set priorities for desktop flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Dec 9, 2020 |
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| Microsoft account users can now access Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Mar 2, 2021 |
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| Users with a work or school account can access Power Automate Desktop without a license | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Mar 2, 2021 |
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| Add WinAutomation actions to desktop flows v1 | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Jun 23, 2020 |
- | 👁 Image Oct 5, 2020 |
| Desktop flows V1 allows users to customize the retry and timeout settings for each action | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Jun 23, 2020 |
- | 👁 Image Oct 5, 2020 |
| Add delay actions to desktop flows V1 | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Aug 21, 2020 |
- | 👁 Image Oct 5, 2020 |
| Add support to pass arguments to the launch application step in desktop flows v1 | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Aug 21, 2020 |
- | 👁 Image Oct 5, 2020 |
| Desktop flows V1 adds support for copy and paste | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | 👁 Image Aug 21, 2020 |
👁 Image Oct 5, 2020 |
| Desktop flows V1 supports do until loops | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Sep 16, 2020 |
- | 👁 Image Oct 5, 2020 |
| Deep analytics for desktop flows to administer, govern, and nurture RPA through the CoE starter toolkit | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Sep 21, 2020 |
- | 👁 Image Oct 5, 2020 |
| Easier setup, creation, and runtime configuration of desktop flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Oct 19, 2020 |
| Administrators can use out-of-the-box reports to monitor and govern the use of RPA | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Nov 12, 2020 |
- | 👁 Image Nov 12, 2020 |
| New and improved management and monitoring for desktop flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Dec 9, 2020 |
| Automation lifecycle management for Robotic Process Automation | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Dec 10, 2020 |
| Sovereign cloud support for RPA | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Dec 10, 2020 |
| Use sensitive text inputs with desktop flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Dec 10, 2020 |
| Direct sensitive input and variables or expressions can be used interchangeably in some action fields | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Dec 11, 2020 |
| More conditional operators are available in Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Dec 11, 2020 |
| New PDF actions are available | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Dec 11, 2020 |
| Power Automate Desktop to send logs to Microsoft Dataverse | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Dec 11, 2020 |
| Start or extend trials from Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Dec 11, 2020 |
| Support for IMEs in Power Automate Desktop and web recorders | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Dec 11, 2020 |
| Second level of error handling in Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Nov 13, 2020 |
- | 👁 Image Dec 11, 2020 |
| Further democratize RPA through new authoring experiences with Microsoft Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Sep 20, 2020 |
- | 👁 Image Dec 30, 2020 |
| Role-based sharing experience for automations | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Jan 25, 2021 |
| View the value of variables in Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Jan 26, 2021 |
| Run from here functionality | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Feb 9, 2021 |
| Enhanced capabilities in the interaction of Desktop Recorder and Windows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Mar 2, 2021 |
| Power Automate Desktop governance | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Mar 2, 2021 |
| New Microsoft Power Automate Desktop settings panel | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Mar 14, 2021 |
| Use of variables within the desktop and web recorder as input and output parameters | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Mar 14, 2021 |
| View shared desktop flows from Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Mar 14, 2021 |
| Real-time view of Robotic Process Automation runs, errors, and queues available | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Dec 10, 2020 |
- | 👁 Image Mar 14, 2021 |
| Actions parameters parity with WinAutomation | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Mar 15, 2021 |
| Provision a Microsoft Dataverse database from Power Automate Desktop | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Mar 15, 2021 |
World-class business process capabilities
Power Automate provides world-class business process capabilities for its users that span endpoints and experiences.
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | Early access* | General availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat bot assistant to help build flows | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Dec 30, 2020 |
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| Contextual help for Power Automate makers | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Dec 30, 2020 |
- | |
| Diagnose trigger issues using flow checker | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Dec 30, 2020 |
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| Document Automation for Power Automate | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Jan 15, 2021 |
- | - |
| Makers can filter SharePoint rows without OData queries | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Mar 14, 2021 |
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| Actionable error messages will be available in Power Automate | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | 👁 Image Mar 28, 2021 |
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| See raw inputs and outputs in the run history | Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically | - | - | 👁 Image Dec 30, 2020 |
* Some features are available to opt-in to some features as part of early access on August 3, 2020, including all mandatory changes that affect users. To learn more, go to Early access FAQ.
Description of Enabled for column values:
Users, automatically: These features include changes to the user experience and are enabled automatically.
Admins, makers, marketers, or analysts, automatically: These features are meant to be used by administrators, makers, marketers, or business analysts and are enabled automatically.
Users by admins, makers, or analysts: These features must be enabled or configured by the administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users.
For a list of the countries or regions where Dynamics 365 business applications are available, go to the International availability guide. For more information about geographic areas and datacenters (regions), go to the Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform availability page.
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