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Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop

You're reading from   Democratizing RPA with Power Automate Desktop Boost your productivity by implementing best practices for automating repetitive desktop processes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245942
Length 308 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Peter Krause Peter Krause
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Power Automate Desktop 2. Chapter 2: Using Power Automate Desktop and Creating Our First Flow FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Editing and Debugging UI Flows 4. Chapter 4: Basic Structure Elements and Flow Control 5. Chapter 5: Variables, UI Elements, and Images 6. Chapter 6: Actions for UI Automation 7. Chapter 7: Automate Your Desktop and Workstation 8. Chapter 8: Automating Standard Business Applications 9. Chapter 9: Leveraging Cloud Services and Power Platform 10. Chapter 10: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence 11. Chapter 11: Working with APIs and Services 12. Chapter 12: PAD Enterprise Best Practices 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

UI flows demystified and their role in Power Platform

As explained in the previous section, Power Automate is a component of Power Platform. However, Power Automate is in itself also an umbrella term for various types of workflows or simply flows that can be created with it. The following types of flows are distinguished:

  • Cloud flows: These kinds of flows run in the cloud, meaning they are running on the Microsoft Cloud infrastructure within Power Platform. A cloud flow runs on a specific trigger event – for example, a new contact was created. It could also run instantly, for example by the press of a button in a Power App, or scheduled – for example, every hour. A cloud flow can be designed in the designer in the browser, and it can incorporate any data or systems that are also available online.
  • Business Process flows: Dynamics 365 contains a lot of predefined business processes, such as lead qualification. This describes the path of a prospect to a real...
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