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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate - Second Edition

By : Aaron Guilmette
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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate - Second Edition

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By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

MS Power Automate is a workflow automation tool built into MS 365 to help businesses automate repetitive tasks or trigger business processes without user intervention. It is a low-code tool that is part of the Microsoft applications framework, the Power Platform. If you are new to Power Automate, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction and a smooth transition from beginner to advanced topics to help you get up to speed with business process automation. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to configure automation workflows for business processes between hundreds of applications, using examples within Microsoft and including third-party apps like Dropbox and Twitter. Once you understand how to use connectors, triggers, and actions to automate business processes, you’ll learn how to manage user input, documents, and approvals, as well as interact with databases. This edition also introduces new Power Automate features such as using robotic process automation (RPA) to automate legacy applications, interacting with the Microsoft Graph API, and working with artificial intelligence models to do sentiment analysis. By the end of this digital transformation book, you’ll have mastered the basics of using Power Automate to replace repetitive tasks with automation technology.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index

Posting Approvals to Teams

Microsoft has positioned Teams as the “hub for teamwork” (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-overview, see Teamwork). With that in mind, we’re going to apply the approval flow skills you acquired in Chapter 9, Getting Started with Approvals, and use them to build an approval experience in Microsoft Teams. You’ll be able to use these skills to help streamline the approvals process for members of your organization that are using Teams as a platform.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following topics:

  • Configuring prerequisites
  • Configuring an approval flow to use Teams
  • Testing the flow

By the end of this chapter, you’ll be able to integrate a Power Automate approval flow with Microsoft Teams.

Let’s go!