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Add custom/Global Placeholder capability

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  • March 18, 2026
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Medic1334
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As we continue to evolve our automator configurations I realized that values must be hard coded for endpoints, etc. It would be nice to have a custom placeholder that is available in the GUI.  For example:

I have multiple automators that are hitting companyname.com on an API hit. Company is changing all of their endpoints from V1 to V2. I have to go through and try finding all automators that use this API endpoint and update the endpoint location.

If I had a custom placeholder table of values or similar, I could find a single value and update it, then the automators would automatically have the new/updated value on next run.

 

This is just one use case, but this could be expanded out to shared folder locations, etc etc and allow for substantially reduced overhead as companies evolve both internally and with their partners.

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mbutler
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  • March 18, 2026

I was thinking it would also be nice to have a way to search sub-steps. For example, you could put in somecompanyname.com and come up with a list of all the workflows that had that text contained within them. Has to be simple to add.

I ran into a similar situation when the MS Teams changed from one plugin to the PowerAutomate plugin. I had to find all of my workflows that were the old MS Teams. Luckily, I made all of my workflow names contain the word “teams”, but you are not going to make all of your workflows contain the api name. We should have a way to search inside of the workflows either by app / name / text / etc


Medic1334
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  • March 18, 2026

We should have a way to search inside of the workflows either by app / name / text / etc

There is another idea for this as well to allow tags or similar I think I've posted.

Even the ability to use a custom object table would suffice realistically...only "problem" in doing that would be the requirement to have each placeholder value be unique (associated value wouldn't matter though) 


Daniel Söderlund
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I have been using CO, example when I do integrations and need to switch between test and prod.