Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate
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Section 1 - What is Power Automate?
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Introducing Power Automate
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Section 2 - Basic Flow Concepts
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Getting Started with Power Automate
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Working with Email
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Copying Files
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Creating Button Flows
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Generating Push Notifications
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Working with Team Flows
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Section 3 - Intermediate Flow Concepts
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Working with Conditions
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Getting Started with Approvals
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Working with Multiple Approvals
- Working with Multiple Approvals
- Working with sequential approvals
- Working with parallel approvals
- Working with advanced scenarios
- Mixed approval types
- Everyone must approve
- Creating a basic sequential approval
- Configuring prerequisites
- Creating the flow
- Creating the trigger
- Creating the first-stage approval
- Creating the second-stage approval
- Completing the flow
- Testing the flow
- Exploring further options
- Summary
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Posting Approvals to Teams
- Posting Approvals to Teams
- Understanding the flow
- Configuring prerequisites
- A SharePoint site
- Flow user bot for Teams
- Configuring an approval flow to use Teams
- Getting the request's information
- Creating the approval
- Returning the response
- Testing the flow
- Requesting the approval
- Approving the request
- Reviewing the response
- Summary
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Using a Database
- Using a Database
- Understanding database connectors, triggers, and actions
- Triggers
- Actions
- Adding database content
- Creating a server
- Creating a database
- Creating a database table
- Creating a connection to a database
- Adding content to a database
- Creating the flow
- Executing the flow
- Verifying the flow
- Reviewing the run history
- Reviewing the SQL data
- Summary
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Working with Microsoft Forms
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Accepting User Input
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Section 4 - Administering the Power Automate Environment
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Exporting, Importing, and Distributing Flows
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Monitoring and Troubleshooting Flows
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About this book
Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Flow) is a workflow automation tool built into Microsoft 365 to help businesses and users to automate repetitive tasks or trigger business processes without user intervention.
If you are new to Microsoft Power Automate, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction to help you to get up to speed with automating business processes in no time. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to configure automation workflows for business processes between hundreds of Microsoft and third-party applications. Once you understand how to use connectors, triggers, and actions to automate business processes, you’ll get to grips with managing user inputs, documents, approvals, and database storage using efficient flow controls. This Power Automate book explains key concepts and takes you through creating your own flows step by step.
By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to use Microsoft Power Automate to replace repetitive tasks with business workflow automation technology.
- Publication date:
- September 2020
- Publisher
- Packt
- Pages
- 302
- ISBN
- 9781839213793