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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

Managing shared flows

All co-owners of a flow can manage its various properties. In this exercise, we’ll look at how a team flow looks to a sharing recipient.

Once a flow has been shared with you (or you have shared a flow with others), you can manage it like any other flow using the My flows | Shared with me page of the Power Automate web portal. One of the most important changes comes when the creator of the flow is no longer available. After the account of a creator has been removed from the organization, connections that utilize that credential will need to be updated.

In the following screenshot, notice how the status of the Office 365 Users and SharePoint connections are displayed with a red exclamation mark to denote failing credentials:

Figure 7.18: Sharing page showing invalid connectors

To resolve the situation and update the credentials, follow these steps:

  1. In the Embedded connections section, select Manage connections.
  2. Select...