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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

Using a Database

Databases are critical infrastructure components that are used to compile information about tasks, individuals, services, products, or any other entity that needs to be tracked. Common database-driven applications include Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platforms, product catalogs, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications, accounting packages, storefronts, and inventory management tools.

In the world of Power Automate, you might use a database to store information about responses to surveys or forms, or to manage scheduled jobs. You may even use one as a logging repository for actions taken by other applications and users. In this chapter, we’re going to look at some of the basics of connecting to a SQL database and using a flow to add data entries. Specifically, we’ll learn about the following topics:

  • Understanding database connectors, triggers, and actions
  • Connecting to a database
  • Creating a connection to a...