Safe draft in Power Automate

If we update our flow and then save a draft before we run our flow we will see that the flow running will still run the most recently published flow.

Publish

Once the flow has been published the flow will be running the new version as expected. It would be nice if we could manually run a flow that is saved as draft, so that we can test it before we publish it. Hopefully that feature will arrive at some point.

Version History

Now comes the interesting bit.

How about we made some changes and we want to undo these changes. In other words we want to go back to the previous version.

All you have to do is select the version that you want and restore that version.

Restore a previous version

To restore the previous version of your flow click on the restore link

Then after a while you will be told that a new draft version of the flow has been saved

Bonus!!!

Now imagine that you create an invalid flow and you have been doing a lot of work. It is time to do something else. In the past you couldn’t save the flow unless it was valid. Now with the save Draft option you can save a draft without having to resolve all the issues first! This is such a huge bonus!

One important thing to consider however is that when you save a draft version of the flow, the switch to classic option will be disabled. This may case problems if you rely on features that are not fully supported in the new Power Automate designer.