Find and Replace
10 min
find and replace lets you make bulk edits to the robinscript in your pad flows directly from blueprint — without switching to power automate desktop you can search and replace specific text across a flow, or select entire actions and replace them with new robinscript find and replace works primarily with flows imported via dataverse for flows imported via solution file, blueprint will attempt to locate the flow in your connected power automate environment if it cannot be found, the feature will be inaccessible ⓘ find and replace requires a valid microsoft 365 authentication setting configured in blueprint if one is not configured, the feature will be inaccessible see microsoft connection docid\ zoxctj3vk7agp9fedw te permissions view permission is required to access find and replace edit permission is required to overwrite an existing flow create permission is required to save changes as a new flow how find and replace stays current find and replace always works with the most recent version of your flow regardless of versioning type, and updates automatically without requiring a manual reimport choosing a scope before making edits, select what portion of the flow to work with entire flow — work across all subflows; a dropdown lets you navigate between them available subflows — work within a single selected subflow code view after selecting a scope, a table displays every action in your selection line — the line number in pad action — the action name as it appears in pad robinscript — the underlying robinscript for this action parameters — all parameters for the action use the checkboxes on the left to select actions for replacement making edits two editing methods are available find & replace — search for specific text in the robinscript and replace it; supports regular expressions in the find field useful for bulk updates like changing file paths or browser types replace selected actions — select one or more adjacent actions using the checkboxes and replace them entirely with new robinscript use this when rewriting actions rather than modifying text within them validating changes click validate in the top toolbar to check your robinscript for syntax errors before applying validation also runs automatically when changes are applied applying changes as you make edits, they are added to a queue at the bottom of the screen from the queue you can undo last change — remove the most recent edit discard all changes — clear the queue and start over apply changes — save your edits using one of the following options overwrite existing flow — updates the current flow in place; requires edit permission recommended — preserves change history and does not consume an additional license create as new flow — saves as a new flow in your power automate environment; requires create permission this creates a new flow that will consume an additional license when imported to alc after applying, the resulting flow is saved as a draft and blueprint automatically reimports it limitations references to resources such as selectors, images, or ui controls are stored as guids — those guids must already exist in the target flow or the flow will break the user submitting the job must have co owner rights to the target flow and all flows it depends on; if any dependent flow is not co owned, the job will fail