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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

Using expressions and multiple conditions

Perhaps evaluating conditions based on a single static value (such as the sender of an email message) doesn’t provide the granularity, flexibility, or portability that a flow requires. In that case, you can also use multiple dynamic content values in a condition.

You’ve already seen examples using expressions as part of dynamic content, such as using formatDateTime() and utcNow() in Chapter 4, Copying Files. In that example, expressions were used to help generate the value for the folder name to store an expense report. You can also use expressions or functions as part of a condition.

Conditions that perform more than one evaluation are commonly referred to as advanced conditions. As you will see in the following instructions, you can simply use the Add button and continue adding criteria. When adding multiple criteria to evaluate, there are two operators available: AND and OR. Selecting AND will require all conditions...