Creating a flow
Power Automate, because of its connectors, can automate processes involving any tool that allows integration. To start using it, you only need to know some basic concepts and the process that you want to automate.
There are two ways to start your flows. The simplest is through templates. On the home page, you can find a variety of flows made by Microsoft and the entire community for a certain type of business, or even for a certain tool. To start using a template, just choose one and customize it if necessary to suit your process (see Figure 11.1).
Figure 11.1 – Power Automate home page
Another way to start your flow is from the sketch, choosing from the type of flow to each action of it. To do that, go to the Create tab from the left menu, as shown in the preceding screenshot.
Before creating your first flow, you need to know about three main Power Automate structures that are used in all flows: connectors, triggers, and actions...
