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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

This chapter introduced a few new actions (Create folder and Copy file) for the SharePoint connector, a new connector to an external service (Dropbox), as well as the concepts of functions and expressions. Expressions can be used to further create custom content, calculate and format values, or extract data from entities.

Using these new components, you were able to copy files internally between SharePoint sites, as well as copy them to an external service. Both types of flows (copying files internally and externally) can be used as part of solving very common business automation problems. Increasing your familiarity with expressions will help you make detailed flows with customizable data output.

In the next chapter, we’ll shift the focus to creating instant or button flows.

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