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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate

You're reading from   Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate Drive digital transformation with AI-powered automation and low-code business workflows

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2025
Last Updated in Oct 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781836649632
Length 627 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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1. Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate: Drive digital transformation with AI-powered automation and low-code business workflows
2. Introducing Microsoft Power Automate FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with Power Automate 4. Working with email 5. Copying files 6. Creating Button Flows 7. Generating push notifications 8. Working with shared flows 9. Working with Conditions 10. Understanding Expressions and Functions

Working with arrays

Arrays, as briefly mentioned, are collections of objects. The split() function, demonstrated earlier, breaks a string into an array based on a text separator value. There are many more array functions that you can use to help process data. Let's take a look at a few of them.First, we'll create a few arrays containing pizza ingredients using the Compose action. You can do this by adding the Compose action to the canvas and then using the createArray() function in the expression editor:

  1. Navigate to the Power Automate maker portal (https://make.powerautomate.com) and create a new Instant flow.
  2. Click the Manually trigger a flow trigger on the canvas.
  3. On the Parameters tab, click Add an input and select any input type.
  4. Add an action.
  5. Select the Compose action.
  6. On the Parameters tab, in the Inputs field, add the following expression to create a new array: createArray('pepperoni&apos...

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