Utility

Setup

Power DevBox Utility is a side panel extension, so it is designed to be open with Power Automate. Clicking on the icon will open the side panel, clicking the top left cross will close the panel.

Utility defaults to Power Automate screen you are on, if you are editing a flow it will show Clipboard mode, else it will show History Mode

Functionality

Utility has the following functions:

• UI

  • Classic

  • Automatic

• Mode

  • History

    • Previous Flows

  • Clipboard

    • Actions Available

    • Add to Clipboard

    • Import to Clipboard

• Close after paste

• Hot Keys

• Beta UI

• Guide

• Buy Me a Coffee

UI

The UI settings allows you to override the default to New UI and forces Power Automate to load in the Classic UI. The Automatic option follows what you have selected, so defaults to New but remembers if you toggle to Classic for that flow.

Mode

History

Utility runs in the background and saves the last 50 flows you have edited. Clicking on the flow name will open the flow in the editor mode.

Clicking the trash can icon will delete the flow from the history.

Entering a flow name or environment name will filter the history to show related flows.

Clipboard

Clipboard saves copied actions and containers for future use. Due to how Power Automate is setup the Classic and New UI save actions differently, so you will see only actions added for the relevant UI (i.e. you will have to add the action in both UI's if you want to use it in both).

For Classic UI users see here and for New UI users click here

Import to Clipboard

To import export clipboard item, click the Import to Clipboard menu option, this will open fil picker, select your export file (will be a .txt file) and if it is valid it will add to the clipboard list.

Please note it is possible to open the export files in any text editor (like notepad) and make changes to the action/container json. So in theory you could create your own configured actions/containers.

Close after paste

This setting will automatically close the Utility side panel after pasting. If set to false then the side panel will remain open.

Hot Keys

Hot Keys enable shortcut keys for Power Automate.

ALT + t	Rerun most recent test
ALT + p	Adds most recent action to flow
ALT + s	Saves flow (Classic UI) / Saves draft (New UI)
ALT + z	Undo (Classic UI only)
ALT + c	Opens flow checker
ALT + q	Edit mode from flow run screen
ALT + x	Toggle Copilot on/off (New UI only)
ALT + +	Zoom in (New UI only)
ALT + -	Zoom out (New UI only)

Beta UI

The Beta UI automatically enables the Experimental Features option from the 'View all Power Automate Settings'.

The Beta UI shows a new improved Dynamic Value and Expression selector popup in the Classic UI

Please note as stated, this is experimental and support has been discontinued due to the New UI, so this will not improve and is buggy (so it does not always show and has other issues, this is not caused by Power DevBox Utility).