Summary

Incorporating Power Automate into your data cleaning workflows for Power BI can significantly enhance efficiency and reliability. By automating triggers, notifications, and data refresh processes, you not only save time but also ensure that your data is consistently prepared for impactful analyses. Following best practices in planning, testing, security, and documentation will further contribute to the success of your automated data cleaning endeavors.

In this chapter, you learned how to use Power Automate to automate or sequence your refreshes, how to create alerts or notifications, and how to use the actions to create snapshot files of your data in CSVs. The automation of Power BI data refresh processes, either through scheduled refreshes or event-based triggers, was explored to ensure up-to-date reports for dynamic datasets. We concluded with some best practices for utilizing Power Automate, encompassing workflow planning, error handling, testing, security considerations...