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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to create a basic form using Microsoft Forms. Additionally, you were able to build upon the skills acquired in Chapter 12, Using a Database, to save data from Microsoft Forms into a SQL database.

In real-world scenarios, you could expand this flow further to generate a confirmation email back to the submitter or use a tool such as Excel or Power BI to sort the data. Depending on the type of data gathered in the form, you could even send this data to Azure Cognitive Services for sentiment analysis (which you’ll learn about in Chapter 17, Introducing AI Models).

In the next chapter, we’ll look at using Power Automate to gather user input directly. This will allow you to create more interactive flows.

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