Exploring Microsoft Copilot for the Power Platform

In addition to using generative AI to process content for flow, you can also use the Microsoft Copilot generative AI platform to help accelerate the development of automation.Instead of manually configuring every condition, action, and connector, users can now describe a business process in natural language, and Copilot intelligently generates a working flow. For example, you can type "When a new email arrives from a client in the invoices shared mailbox, save the attachments to the Invoices SharePoint site and send a message to the accounts payable group on Teams," and Power Automate will build that automation step by step.

Figure 21.1 – Creating a flow through Copilot's Describe it to design it feature

After a few moments, Copilot will return a suggestion, as shown in Figure 21.2:

Figure 21.2 – Reviewing the AI-suggested output...