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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

Learning about expressions and functions

So what are expressions and functions?As mentioned earlier, Power Automate flows are composed using objects and a language similar to Excel or Visual Basic macros. In this language, Workflow Definition Language (WDL), expressions and functions refer to internal processes and capabilities that can be used to manipulate data.A function is a basic computational construct—the lowest level of processing logic that Power Automate offers. Functions are operations that allow you to perform a pre-defined operation on the values passed to them. Let's look at the CONCAT function, which is used to join strings together:concat(text_1, text_2)If you've used Excel functions, this will seem very familiar. In this example, concat refers to the function name, and the placeholders text_1 and text_2 are the parameters containing the values you want to join. If you entered the function concat("The quick brown fox ", "jumped...

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