Microsoft Power Automate

Microsoft Power Automate is a desktop and cloud automation tool.

Trigger an Instant Cloud Flow from PixieBrix

💲 Using request/response steps in Power Automate requires a Premium Power Automate Account

1. Create an Instant cloud flow

   
2. Select “When an HTTP request is received” as the trigger

   
3. Expand the “When an HTTP request is received” step

4. Set “Who can trigger the flow” to Anyone

5. Save the flow

6. Copy the URL in HTTP POST URL

   
7. In the PixieBrix Page Editor, add the HTTP Request brick

   
8. Set the following configuration fields:

   • URL: the URL from the HTTP POST URL field above

   • Method: POST (Power Automate defaults to POST)

   • JSON Data: the request body

Returning a Response to PixieBrix

1. Add a “Response” step to the flow

2. Set the Status Code field to 200 to indicate a successful request/response. Information on HTTP status codes is available here

3. Set the Body to the response you want to return:

   

Other Cloud Flow API Operations

🛡️ These APIs require authenticating with Microsoft Dataverse/Power Automate

See Microsoft’s Work with Cloud Flows using Code documentation

Running Desktop Flows from PixieBrix

Running From Instant Cloud Flows

1. See Section “Trigger an Instant Cloud Flow from PixieBrix” above

2. Add a “Run a flow built with Power Automate for desktop” step to the flow

   

Running Directly using a Run URL

📚 For detailed documentation, see Microsoft’s Run desktop flows via URL or desktop shortcuts documentation

1. Find the Run URL in the Flow’s Properties

   
2. Copy the Run URL from the properties blade:

   
3. In PixieBrix, add an “Open a tab” brick

4. Paste the copied URL into the URL field

   
5. Optional: you can disable the browser confirmation when opening custom URL schemes: Integrate with Desktop Apps via Custom URL Schemes

Triggering directly via API

🛡️ These APIs require authenticating with Microsoft Dataverse/Power Automate

See Microsoft’s Trigger a desktop flow run developer documentation