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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

Configuring prerequisites

This approval flow will require several components and prerequisites. You're already familiar with many of them, but we'll review the exact requirements for this flow. The next two sections will describe the requirements

A SharePoint site

Like many flows, this one uses SharePoint as a document repository. This flow will require a SharePoint site with a document library that contains Submitted, Approved, and Rejected folders, as shown in the following screenshot:

For this example, we'll be using a SharePoint site called Procurement Requests, but you can use any SharePoint site that you like.

Flow user bot for Teams

The Flow Bot for Teams allows Power Automate to interact with a Microsoft Teams user. To install the bot, you can follow these steps:

  1. Launch Microsoft Teams (either the desktop application version or the web version at https://teams.microsoft.com) and sign in.
  2. On the left rail, select Apps, and then select Bots. Click the Flow bot:
  3. ...
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