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. If the Flow's Power Automate environment can't be reached, Find and Replace shows the message 'The environment is not currently available'.

ⓘ 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.

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 both the Find field and the Replace 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