Exploring Power Automate

Power Automate provides the automation platform that helps you to automate time-consuming, repetitive tasks. A good scenario, from the student enrolment example cited earlier, would be that of automating sending an email summary of the classes that the student signed up for. Such repetitive, mundane tasks can be quickly automated using a flow, without using a single line of code. Power Automate provides a simple flow designer on https://flow.microsoft.com/. This is where you can create standalone flows; however, with Dataverse for Teams, there are multiple places where you can create your flows, with one such scenario illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 2.8 – Power Automate Experience in Microsoft Teams

Using simple steps, any citizen developer can stitch together an automated flow with just a few clicks. You can schedule a recurring task, which will retrieve messages from a Microsoft Teams channel, and can then send...