Tag: Power Automate

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Power Automate – Restore deleted flows

Posted on 01/28/2023by Angelo

Today , I want to explain how you can recover deleted Power Automate flows. PS: If you need recover Power Apps, you can read my article here.

Some note to remember:

  • You can’t recover your flow if it was deleted more than 20 days ago
  • You can recover your flow if it was not part of solution (but if did, you can try to open a ticket support)
  • Default state of recovered flow is disabled
  • You can recover flow also with powershell commands
  • You need use Admin user of environment
  • You can write me for comment to improve quality of my contents 🙂

Create flow to recover deleted flow

Let’s build a new “Instant cloud flow” with manually trigger.

Create new flow
Create new instant cloud flow
Create new flow with manually trigger
Create new instant cloud flow

Now we can add some step to recovery our flow, search “Power Automate Management” and looking for step “List Flows as Admin”, then choose correct Environment and set “Include Soft-Deleted Flows” to Yes.

List Flows as Admin
List Flows as Admin

Now have action to list our flows, included deleted flows. Add “Apply to Each” step (I renamed it “ForEachFlow”) in order to iterate our results and then add “condition” action to filter only “deleted” flow by status property:

Filter only deleted flow
Filter only deleted flow

Now last step, add action called “Restore Deleted Flow as Admin” set correct Environment (same as step “List flows as Admin”):

Restore flow Step
Restore flow Step

and finally run it.

Recover flow
Recover flow

Now , your flow should be appear in list of flow and should be in disabled state:

Restored flow
Restored flow

Considerations

I hope these information can help you to recover your deleted Power Automate Flow…Here you can find official documentation from Microsoft.

Contact me for questions! Have a nice day!

CategoriesPower AppsPower AutomatePower Platform

Power Platform – Environment

Posted on 11/04/2022by Angelo

Today, we’re going to speak about Environment. Where people starting to create App or Flow, usually, use Default Environment. But in order to have correct governance or our Power Platform solutions, a good idea (but is not only the one) is create more then one Environment. For Example Dev, Quality and Prod.

What is an “Environment” ?

According to Microsoft , and Environment is a a space to store and share data, app , flows. You can image it as a “Container”.

  • Each environment can have a single Dataverse DB (but you can create environment withoud it)
  • Default environment is Shared by all users, in my opinion you shouldn’t use it to develop critical app.

Environment types

Basically we can create 4 kinds of environment.

  • Sandbox: used for non-production environment but for developing and test. It can be reset or copy.
  • Production: used for permanent work. You need Power Apps license to create and manage it. It will provided with 1 GB database capacity.
  • Trial: used for short term testing. It will be cleaned automatically after 30 days. I usually use it to try new features. It can be create also as subscription based, and it can be conferted as production environment.
  • Developer: you can create a developer plan, follow this one.

Create new Environment

Go to Power Platform admin center: Power Platform admin center (microsoft.com) and click on “New”:

Admin Center
Create new environment

Now you can fill option and create your new environment

Create new environment
Creating

You can find usefull information here.

Contact me for questions! Have a nice day!