Intro
Using the recorder function in Power Automate Desktop can make your life a lot easier. Especially in the beginning. Use it whenever you’re in doubt of which activity to use.
What you will learn
- Primarily:
- The recorder function on
- Browsers
- Applications
- The recorder function on
- Secondarily:
- How to combine the recorder with our flows
- Manipulate strings
- Write text files
Client Name
Yourself
Process Name
Recorder
Description
Let’s try the recorder with browser and applications:
- Browser:
- Use the recorder to open Edge
- Navigate to https://google.com
- Search for Microsoft Stock Price
- Extract the number
- Stop the recorder
- Write the result to a text file
- Applications:
- Open the calculator (calc.exe)
- Use the recorder to calculate 2+2 and click equal (=)
- Extract the result
- Close the recorder
- Present the extracted result e.g. in a message box
Hints
- Browser
- Open the recorder
- Click Record
- Click the three dots
- Launch new web browser – Microsoft Edge
- Navigate to https://google.com by copy/pasting it into the address bar
- Search for Microsoft Stock Price
- Right-click on the result and Extract the stock price
- Close the recorder
- Write text to file
- Desktop
- Run application to open the calculator (calc.exe)
- Open the recorder and record
- Press C and then
- 2 and then
- + and then
- 2 and then
- =
- Now right-click and get the result
- Close the recorder
- Present the result in a Display message
- Try to run the flow
- Can we present the result better? Hint: we can use a Get subtext