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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, we covered new connectors and actions, as well as an example of how to nest an expression inside another expression by formatting the value from utcNow() with the formatDateTime() expression. By combining multiple expressions, you can display variable data in a format that makes sense for the flow.

As you’ve seen, button flows can be useful for quick tasks that can be executed from either the web portal or a mobile device. While button flows can be created from mobile devices, you may want to consider creating complex flows from the web interface so that you can see more components on the screen at the same time.

In the next chapter, we’re going to look at using push notifications to increase visibility and draw attention to noteworthy items.

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