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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate

You're reading from   Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate Achieve digital transformation through business automation with minimal coding

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839213793
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 - What is Power Automate?
2. Introducing Power Automate FREE CHAPTER 3. Section 2 - Basic Flow Concepts
4. Getting Started with Power Automate 5. Working with Email 6. Copying Files 7. Creating Button Flows 8. Generating Push Notifications 9. Working with Team Flows 10. Section 3 - Intermediate Flow Concepts
11. Working with Conditions 12. Getting Started with Approvals 13. Working with Multiple Approvals 14. Posting Approvals to Teams 15. Using a Database 16. Working with Microsoft Forms 17. Accepting User Input 18. Section 4 - Administering the Power Automate Environment
19. Exporting, Importing, and Distributing Flows 20. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Flows 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating your first flow

The best way to see Power Automate in action is to start creating a flow. In this example, we're going to create a flow that monitors Twitter for a certain hashtag and then posts a notification to a Teams channel. Such a flow might be useful if you're trying to gauge or capture customer sentiment for a product or service, track trending public health topics related to certain keywords, monitor engagement activity, or other topic-based alerts on a social media platform.

Understanding the flow components

This particular flow is going to rely upon a few components:

  • An identity for Twitter (username and password)
  • A trigger that monitors Twitter for certain words or phrases
  • An identity for Office 365 (username and password)
  • A Microsoft Teams team
  • An action that posts to Microsoft Teams

To complete this flow, we'll need to configure or obtain access to both Twitter and Office 365 identities, as well as a Microsoft Teams team where messages will be posted...

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