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Aaron Guilmette
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Aaron Guilmette is a Senior Program Manager with the Microsoft 365 Customer Experience, helping customers adopt and deploy the Microsoft 365 platform. He primarily focuses on collaborative technologies, including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, and Azure Active Directory.
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Learning about button flows

Button flows (or instant cloud flows), as previously mentioned, are manually triggered flows. They don’t monitor anything, nor do they have any sort of REST-based trigger that instantiates them. Button flows can be used for a variety of low-impact tasks, such as executing reminders or notifying individuals.

A button or instant flow can be created in three different ways:

  • From a button flow template
  • From a blank template
  • Imported from a package

One of the best ways to get started, especially when working with common tasks, is to look at the examples of others and templates. If you think you might be doing something that someone else has done before, a template is a great place to start. You can also import previously saved and exported flows (you’ll learn more about this in Chapter 18, Exporting, Importing, and Distributing Flows).

Button flows can be created from either the Power Automate mobile app...

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Aaron Guilmette

Aaron Guilmette is a Senior Program Manager with the Microsoft 365 Customer Experience, helping customers adopt and deploy the Microsoft 365 platform. He primarily focuses on collaborative technologies, including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, and Azure Active Directory.
Read more about Aaron Guilmette