How to use Microsoft Power Automate Tutorial for Beginners: Introduction

Introduction

Welcome everyone! In this course you will learn how we can start with power automate.

I will try to cover from very basic so that you can use this platform very easily.

Feel free to comment below if you have any query.

How power automate can help?

There are many possibilities which can be done using power automate

For example:

o   You can use to Automate business processes.

o   Send automatic reminders for due tasks or to send any kind of reminders to employees or customers.

o   Another use case could be, Move data between systems on a schedule.

o   It has more than 500 data sources like SharePoint, SQL, OneDrive and many more. And many APIs as well.

o   You can even automate tasks on your local computer like computing data in Excel.

 

Power Automate is all about automation.

It can help you to save time by automating repetitive manual tasks simply by recording mouse clicks, keystrokes and copy paste steps from your desktop.



What is the Perquisite to start with power automate?

 

As such nothing major is required to start with basic power automate flows. Anyone can start creating their workflows using Power Automata’s no-code/low-code platform.

But it’s good if you have basic understanding of conditions like if-else, while, do while, loops etc.

Platform overview

The first step to start with automate is by sign up or if you already have an account with Power Automate you can sign in.

 

Once you land on the home page of power automate. You can see there are different type of flow options are available.

Flows are of 3 types

·       Cloud flows [Create a cloud flow when you want your automation to be triggered either automatically, instantly, or via a schedule.]

o   Automated Flow [ this type is used when you want to create an automation/flow when an event occurs like email received from a specific person/shared mailbox, whenever some post about specific company on social media etc]

o   Instant Flow [This flow is used when you want to manually trigger the created flow/automation for example, instantly send a reminder to the team by clicking a button from your mobile device.]

o   Scheduled Flow [ When you want to run your flow at specific time/interval. For example, daily data upload to SharePoint or a database.]

·       Desktop Flows
[Using Power Automate for desktop you can automate tasks on the desktop as well as the Web.]

·       Business process flows
[ Business Process Flow provides the visual presentations of Processes.]


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