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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

Working with Shared Flows

Up to this point, all of the flows that you have created or seen have been associated with your particular Office 365 user account. These types of flows are individualized and may rely on your identity to authenticate.

However, if you are part of a team or share responsibility for a work process, you may find it necessary to create flows that others can also see and manage. This is where shared flows, formerly known as team flows, can help us.

In this chapter, you’ll learn the basics of shared flows as we cover the following topics:

  • Understanding team flows
  • Sharing a cloud flow
  • Sharing a desktop flow
  • Sharing a flow with run only permissions
  • Managing shared flows

Team flows are important to enable business continuity in the event that one or more parties of a flow change roles or leave the organization altogether. By the end of this chapter, you’ll know how to share and manage team flows.

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