Exporting a flow

If you want to back up a flow or make a flow available for use in another environment, you’ll need to export it. Exporting a flow makes it portable and gives you the ability to move it. A flow can be exported into different formats:

• A package (.zip for importing into Power Automate)
• A Logic Apps template (.json for importing into Logic Apps)
• A solution (a packaged collection of flows and connections)

The export format you choose depends on what the target environment is and when your flow was built. The formats are very similar, as Power Automate is built with the same technology as the Logic Apps platform. In this example, we’ll look at the steps for exporting a template for reuse in Power Automate (in either the same or different environments).

Note

The Export to Logic Apps feature is not available for Power Automate flows created after August 2020, as Microsoft changed the protocol used to create flows...