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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

Understanding the Forms connector triggers and actions

Before we can begin crafting a flow that involves Microsoft Forms, it's important to understand what kinds of triggers and actions are available for the Forms connector. As a reminder, triggers are activities that can initiate a flow, and actions are the activities that a flow can perform.

Triggers

As mentioned in the introduction, Microsoft Forms is a survey and information gathering tool. An end user's interaction with Forms ends when they complete and submit the form. As such, the Forms connector currently has only one trigger: When a new response is submitted. This trigger is activated when a user submits a form to the service.

Actions

The Forms connector also has only a single action: Get response details. Using this action, Power Automate can retrieve the data submitted by the user and use the field values in a flow.

Before we can use Power Automate to process a form, we'll need a form to work with. In the next...

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