Desktop flows can launch Power Apps for guided handoffs
Reviewed by Helen Jones
Microsoft’s June 2026 Power Platform update introduces the preview Run Power App action for Power Automate for desktop. The action lets a desktop flow open a Power App, pass inputs into it, receive outputs back, and trigger callable subflows from app events.
Before this, attended desktop automations often had to rely on brittle screen steps, separate forms, or manual prompts when a user needed to guide the next part of the process. That makes the flow harder to test, explain, and maintain. Now makers have a more structured route for combining a local desktop automation with a proper Power Apps front end. For a non-developer builder, this could make approval screens, lookup forms, and exception-handling steps easier to design without pretending the desktop flow can safely guess everything.
Analysis
Pick one attended desktop flow where a person still has to choose, check, or type something mid-process. Sketch the Power App screen first, then decide whether the preview action is worth testing outside production.
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