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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

Configuring a notification for emails from your manager

Configuring a flow that uses a push notification is very straightforward. You can add push notifications to existing flows or create a new flow that utilizes a push notification.

In this example, we’re going to create a new flow that sends a push notification when the monitored mailbox receives an email from the user’s manager. We’re going to use the following components that we learned about in the previous chapter:

  • Connectors: Office 365 Users and Outlook
  • Actions: Get my profile (V2) and Get manager

We’re also going to introduce a new connector and new actions:

  • Notifications connector: This connector allows you to interact with the notifications service. You can learn more about the notifications connector here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/flowpush.
  • Send me a mobile notification action: This action sends a push notification to a mobile...