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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

Understanding condition operators

Operators indicate the types of calculations used when evaluating components. You might be familiar with common mathematical operators such as the following:

  • + (addition)
  • - (subtraction)
  • ÷ (division)
  • × (multiplication)
  • < (less than)
  • > (greater than)

These operators are primarily used for evaluating numeric values. When manipulating objects and text in a flow, using mathematical operators may not be sufficient. While you can use numeric expressions in some places, it’s also important to understand other operators that can be used to determine whether a value meets a certain condition.

Power Automate conditions can perform the evaluation of conditions using the following operators:

  • contains
  • does not contain
  • is equal to
  • is not equal to
  • is greater than
  • is greater than or equal to
  • is less than
  • is less than or equal to
  • ...