{"id":7074,"date":"2021-12-13T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/power-automate-for-desktop-december-2021-update\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:51:24","slug":"power-automate-for-desktop-december-2021-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/power-automate-for-desktop-december-2021-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Automate for desktop &#8211; December 2021 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce that the December 2021 update of Power Automate for desktop (version 2.15) 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>The web and desktop recorders are now unified<\/h2>\n<p>The web recorder and desktop recorder are unified into a single Power Automate for desktop recorder. With the unified recorder, users can record both their web- and desktop-related activities during a single recording session.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Unified recorder\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7082 size-full\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2021\/12\/Unified-recorder.png\" width=\"1528\"\/><\/h2>\n<h2>Tenant picker is now supported in the console (Preview)<\/h2>\n<p>Users of the Power Automate app may often need to sign in to multiple tenants. With the tenant picker feature within Power Automate for desktop, users will be able to switch between tenants of the same organization or different ones, without taking extra steps through the Power Automate portal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tenant picker\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7095 size-full\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2021\/12\/Tenant-picker-censored-email.png\" width=\"1416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tenant-picker-censored-email.webp 1416w, https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tenant-picker-censored-email-300x106.webp 300w, https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tenant-picker-censored-email-1024x363.webp 1024w, https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Tenant-picker-censored-email-768x272.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1416px) 100vw, 1416px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Create a copy of a desktop flow through the console<\/h2>\n<p>Users will now be able to create a copy of a desktop flow directly from the Power Automate console. To do so, navigate to the desktop app\u2019s console, select the flow that you want to create a copy from and select the option <strong>Create a copy<\/strong> on the menu list. After a few moments, the copy of your flow will appear under the <strong>My flows<\/strong> tab of the console.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Create a copy of a desktop flow\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7077 size-full\" height=\"824\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2021\/12\/Create-a-copy.png\" width=\"1496\"\/><\/h2>\n<h2>A new action \u2018Recognize entities in text\u2019 is now available<\/h2>\n<p>The new action <strong>Recognize entities in text<\/strong> receives text expressed in natural language as input and returns a datable containing the recognized entities, such as numbers, dates, measurement units and many more.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Recognize entities in text\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7078 size-large\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2021\/12\/Recognize-entities-in-text-1024x806.png\" width=\"525\"\/><\/h2>\n<h2>Syntax highlighting in scripting actions<\/h2>\n<p>This feature brings support for syntax highlighting to all the actions that support script editors. The affected actions are the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run VBScript<\/li>\n<li>Run\u00a0Poweshell\u00a0script<\/li>\n<li>Execute SQL statement<\/li>\n<li>Run\u00a0JavaScript<\/li>\n<li>Run Python\u00a0script<\/li>\n<li>Run JavaScript function on web page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Syntax highlighting\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7080 size-large\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2021\/12\/Syntax-highlighting-1024x922.png\" width=\"525\"\/><\/h2>\n<h2>New functionality to clear last error in action \u2018Get last error\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>This new parameter in the action <strong>Get last error<\/strong> will now allow users to clear the error value stored in memory, after its invocation. If the action is called again, the variable will contain the <strong>No error<\/strong> message.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Clear last error\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7076 size-large\" height=\"268\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2021\/12\/Clear-last-error-1024x522.png\" width=\"525\"\/><\/h2>\n<h2>New functionality to capture unexpected errors in action \u2018On block error\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Users will be able to handle more errors though the <strong>On block error<\/strong> action\u2019s configuration modal.\u00a0This new addition assists in capturing and handling errors that stem from erroneous logic.\u00a0For instance, such errors include division by zero or index out of bounds cases when retrieving an item from a list.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Capture unexpected errors\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7075 size-large\" height=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2021\/12\/Capture-unexpected-errors-1024x775.png\" width=\"525\"\/><\/h2>\n<h2>New capability to save an Excel workbook in Binary format<\/h2>\n<p>Users will now be able to save their Excel file as Excel Binary Workbook (.xlsb), allowing for more scenario coverage and more elaborate flow creation.\u00a0This is an enhancement over the <strong>Save Excel<\/strong> and <strong>Close Excel<\/strong> actions.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Save Excel as xlsb\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7079 size-large\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2021\/12\/Save-Excel-as-xlsb-1024x690.png\" width=\"525\"\/><\/h2>\n<h2>Window element has been added as parameter in action \u2018Send keys\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>Send keys<\/strong> action of Power Automate for desktop is enhanced with the <strong>Send keys to<\/strong> parameter, with which users may select the window (or UI element) where the inserted keys will be sent, even if the window is not in the foreground.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Window element in Send keys\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7083 size-large\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2021\/12\/Window-element-in-Send-keys-1024x936.png\" width=\"525\"\/><\/h2>\n<h2>The Windows OCR engine is now supported in OCR actions<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to Tesseract, \u00a0Windows OCR has been added as a new engine type to work with the following OCR related actions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If text on screen (OCR)<\/li>\n<li>Wait for text on screen (OCR)<\/li>\n<li>Move mouse to text on screen (OCR)<\/li>\n<li>Extract text with OCR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW140320528 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW140320528 BCX8\">Windows OCR is a more efficient and faster engine, including the support of 25 languages.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW140320528 BCX8\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Windows OCR engine\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7084 size-large\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2021\/12\/Windows-OCR-engine-781x1024.png\" width=\"525\"\/><\/h2>\n<p>As a sidenote, the OCR engine variable option is going to be removed soon, as it is related to the older <strong>Create OCR engine<\/strong> actions that have already been deprecated.<\/p>\n<h2>Power Automate for desktop availability in Windows 10 store<\/h2>\n<p>From this release on, Windows 10 users (minimum version 17763) will be able to download the desktop app from the Microsoft Store.<\/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\">Download Power Automate for desktop<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power Automate for desktop comes with new features in December 2021 release, including the unified recorder, the tenant picker, the ability to create copies of flows from the console, as well as multiple improvements over many different actions.<\/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-7074","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 - December 2021 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:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/2021\/12\/13\/power-automate-for-desktop-december-2021-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 - December 2021 update - Microsoft Power Platform Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Power Automate for desktop comes with new features in December 2021 release, including the unified recorder, the tenant picker, the ability to create copies of flows from the console, as well as multiple improvements over many different actions.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/power-automate-for-desktop-december-2021-update\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Microsoft Power Platform Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-13T16:03:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-11T14:51:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/powerautomateblogmedia.azureedge.net\/powerautomateblog\/2021\/12\/Unified-recorder.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"935\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1088\" \/>\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=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/2021\/12\/13\/power-automate-for-desktop-december-2021-update\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/2021\/12\/13\/power-automate-for-desktop-december-2021-update\/\"},\"author\":[{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/newed.any0.dpdns.org\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/author\/yiannis-mavridis\/\",\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@name\":\"Yiannis Mavridis\"}],\"headline\":\"Power Automate for desktop &#8211; 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