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Description: A description of the variable that will appear in the cloud or desktop flow designer while calling the flow.The external name is the name that will appear in the cloud or desktop flow designer while calling the flow. External name: The name of the variable used outside the flow designer.When creating a custom object, list, or datatable input variable, Power Automate allows you to construct the default value through a visual editor or a JSON editor. Default value: The default value when the flow runs from the Power Automate flow designer or the Power Automate console.Data type: The type of the variable: text, number, boolean, custom object, list or datatable.Variable name: The name of the variable in the flow.When the New input variable dialog appears, populate the following fields: Select the ( +) button in the variables pane and then Input. You can find more information about passing data between Power Automate cloud flows and desktop flows in Trigger a Power Automate flow from another flow.

Input outguess output update#

The name of the variable will be updated in all its occurrences.Īlthough you can update variables' names manually through actions, the name will be changed only in these specific actions, not globally.

To rename a desktop flow variable, make a right-click on its name in the Variables pane and select Rename. To go back to the parent custom object, select the arrow. The variable value viewer displays the properties of the child custom object. To view the properties of the nested element, select More. The figure below shows the variable CustomerObject which contains Company, another custom object. For example, a custom object type variable may contain another custom object in its properties. The variable value viewer shows the data type of the variable, and expands any datarows or datatables to show their contents.Ĭertain data types may contain nested elements. To view the value of a variable in more detail, double-click on the variable. To clear the values of all variables, select the eraser icon at the bottom of the pane. Variables of disabled actions are omitted. When the flow runs, the current value of each variable is shown next to its name. Through the Variables pane, you can search for variables, rename them, find their usages and filter them by type. It also displays all the variables used in the current flow under Flow variables. The variables pane shows the input and output variables passed to and from Power Automate.