PL 400: create and configure a flow(Configure Power Automate)

While Power Apps provides a declarative environment for designing user interfaces, Citizen developers can automate the process with Power Automate. The most amazing feature of this tool is that it does not require any coding background. This automation tool provides a rich set of low code solutions that create automated end-to-end processes and solve common problems. It helps in improving productivity, efficiency and cost-savings.

Power Automate is a built in Cloud workflow engine that automates action across the most common apps and service


Different types of flows that are available in Power Automate:


Advantages and Disadvantages of Power Automate:


There are different ways to license functionality:


Every Flow has two main Parts:
  • Trigger
  • One or more Actions

Create and Configure a Flow :
  • Go to Power Automate (https://us.flow.microsoft.com/)
  • Select the my flow 
  • Either user can create flow from template or directly choose the flow 


  • Enter the Flow Name and select the trigger:


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  1. Sapphire Solutions22 December 2021 at 09:56

    PL 400: create and configure a flow(Configure Power Automate)

    Very informative post...!

    Keep posting the great content...

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