Creating flows through the Power Automate service
To access Power Automate, we can either navigate directly to https://make.powerautomate.com or we can launch it from the Microsoft 365 portal (portal.office.com), which allows us to select Power Automate from the list of available applications.
Once we have navigated to Power Automate, we have a variety of options available so that we can get started. These options are quite similar to those that are available for Power Apps since we can either start from a template, which has a number of preconfigured actions that we can then modify, or start from scratch, where we have a completely blank canvas on which to build the cloud flow as we see fit.
The first option we will look at is creating a cloud flow from one of the existing templates.
Creating a cloud flow from templates
If you are new to Power Automate, then there are a number of templates covering a vast array of scenarios, all of which can be accessed from the Templates...