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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate

By : Aaron Guilmette
Book Image

Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate

By: Aaron Guilmette

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power Automate is a workflow automation solution included in Microsoft 365. This book explores the core concepts of workflow automation, such as working with connectors, triggers, and actions, along with their practical implementation in automating business tasks and simplifying digital processes to boost enterprise productivity.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1 - What is Power Automate?
3
Section 2 - Basic Flow Concepts
10
Section 3 - Intermediate Flow Concepts
18
Section 4 - Administering the Power Automate Environment

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to create a basic form using Microsoft Forms. Additionally, you were able to build upon the skills acquired in Chapter 12, Using a Database, to save data from Microsoft Forms into a SQL database. In real-world scenarios, you could expand this flow further to generate a confirmation email back to the submitter or use a tool such as Excel or Power BI to sort the data. Depending on the type of data gathered in the form, you could even send this data to Azure Cognitive Services for sentiment analysis.

In the next chapter, we'll look at using Power Automate to gather user input directly.