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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

Creating a button flow to email a manager

There are times when you just need a quick form or letter to respond or send someone a notification, such as when you’re out of the office due to a holiday or illness. In this section, we’re going to configure this simple button flow to email your manager that you’re going to be out of the office. Like the flows you’ve created in the last few chapters, we’re going to take advantage of dynamic content to make sure we retrieve the value stored in the manager property for an account in Office 365.

In order to do this, we’re going to introduce a new connector and some interesting actions:

  • The Office 365 Users connector: This connector allows you to connect to Azure Active Directory to retrieve information pertaining to the user object data. You can learn more about the Office 365 Users connector here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/office365users/
  • The Get my profile (V2...