Power Platform Robotic Process Automation (Part 1)

In this post I am sharing a video blog I created where I show a use-case where using Power Platform RPA flows I synchronize data from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales in the cloud to a legacy on-prem app which is Microsoft Access running on my local machine.

Since I would like you to see the automation happening on my screen I had to use "Attended mode" which means that someone must be physically logged in to the Windows Machine on order to run the RPA Flow. Thisis also useful for testing your flows. In reality your flow would run in Unattended mode where a physical person is not needed to be logged in.

I will demo unattended mode in a future blog post/video but, of course, it will be less interactive then this one. ;-)

High level what is happening is that a Power automate flow is triggering on saving of the account record in Dynamics 365 Sales. One of the actions in this flow triggers na RPA flow which I had pre-recorded on my machine.

Here is the video. Enjoy!