The different types of flows

Power Automate offers five types of flows to provide organizations with as many options as possible. There is a type for all kinds of scenarios.

Automated

These cloud flows get executed when a specific action triggers them, for example:

• When a new email arrives in Gmail
• When a new tweet gets posted on Twitter

These are examples of triggered actions. You can build your solutions around them by doing the following:

• When I receive a new email having the word invoice in the title, extract the attachments and copy them to the Finance SharePoint document library.
• When a new tweet gets posted, send the content to the AI builder for sentiment analysis, and then send a Teams notification to Marketing if the result is negative.

Instant

If you want to trigger a cloud flow manually, this is your option. You can execute this by doing the following:

• Clicking a button from your mobile phone
• Running them from...