How to move your Microsoft PowerAutomate Flow to Logic Apps?

Time needed: 15 minutes

How to move a Flow from Power Automate to Logic Apps?

1. Navigate to your Flow

   First we’ll need to locate your particular Flow. Browse to the Microsoft Power Automate. Login with your account. On the left-hand side, click on My flows.

2. Export your Flow from PowerAutomate

   Now we’ll export your flow from PowerAutomate. The screenshot below shows you how to do it (ellipsis -> Export > “Logic Apps template (.json)”)
   
   
   Important: Make a mental note of the file name – you’ll need to recognize it later.

3. Create your new Logic App

   Now’s the time to create a new Logic App. Navigate to Azure Portal. Do NOT create a new Logic App, though. This part is a bit convoluted.
   
   Instead, hit whatever weird keyboard shortcut¹ that’s required to take you to search, and enter “template”.
   
   

4. Open the template editor

   Now we’ll want to find the place to edit our “custom template”. This happens by hitting “Build your own template in the editor“.
   
   

5. Import your flow json file to Azure Portal

   We can now import your json template. There’s a very convenient “Load file” -button in the ribbon on top. Click that and select your .json file from step 2.
   
   

6. Hit “Save”

   Time to save. Don’t fret – your template will look like a total mess. That’s to be expcted.
   
   Depending on your Flow, it might have plenty of Resources and Parameters, but don’t worry even if you don’t recognize them – some things are named differently than in the Flow UI.
   
   
7. Select your Subscription and Resource group

   Next, you can select the resource group (and the containing subscription) you’re deploying your shiny new Logic App to.
   
   You can also give it a name, and (optionally) rename parameters.
   
   
   
   Now, this is just my recommendation, but any time I deploy a new Logic App, I deploy it to a new resource group, unless it’s directly related to another Logic App and will share the same connectors. So when deploying from a template, I’ll always deploy to a new Resource group.

8. Hit “Review + create” and “Purchase”

   Now we’ll finish the creation – hit “Review + create” and then “Purchase” (no need to worry about the obnoxious and odd costs associated with Flows and their licensing – the world of Azure Logic Apps is a lot more straightforward).

9. OPTIONAL: Retry

   If you end up with an empty deployment (Deployment finishes with a message along the lines of “The deployment of 0 Resources successful”), simply retry. There’s a fair chance it’ll actually work the second time around, or at least you’ll get a more useful error message!