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Maximize your productivity in Excel with Power Automate
BlogThe new “Automate work” button in Excel Online, powered by Power Automate, has made it easier than ever to automate tasks and run processes efficiently from anywhere. This feature extends the capabilities of Power Automate by providing access to pre-built templates and allowing users to build workflows quickly and easily within Excel Online. This button replaces the “Automate a Task” button in Excel Online. Previously, the “Automate a Task” button only allowed users to select templates for Office Scripts, which would then take them to the Power Automate portal to build a flow. But now, with just a few clicks, you can automate repetitive tasks, reduce errors, and boost productivity, all without ever leaving Excel!
Deeper control over HTTP invocation of flows
BlogHTTP request trigger is a frequently used functionality that helps customers integrate Power Automate with other systems. This allows a flow to be started based on an HTTP call. Today, we are introducing OAuth support for HTTP request triggers for deeper control on what applications and users can invoke such automations.
Seamlessly connect apps, data and processes across Dataverse environments
BlogWe’re excited to announce the public preview of a much-anticipated update to the Microsoft Dataverse connector in Power Automate. With the new ‘Environment’ parameter, you can use the Dataverse connector to seamlessly connect apps, data, and processes in different Power Platform environments.
Announcing Deeper SAP Integration for the Power Platform
BlogMicrosoft’s acquisition of Clear Software has led to new functionality for organizations running SAP in Power Apps, Power Automate, and Logic Apps that will enable large-scale adoption of the Power Platform.
Your ultimate email sentiment analysis solution!
BlogWant to level up your customer service game? Discover how to automatically detect negative customer emails and take immediate action with Power Automate and Microsoft Teams integrated with AI Builder’s sentiment analysis. Don’t miss out on this powerful solution for top-notch email management.
New ways to innovate with AI and Microsoft Power Automate
BlogAt Microsoft Ignite 2022, we were pleased to share some exciting innovations for Power Automate, empowering makers and pro-coders with new ways to automate and scale enterprise-wide with AI.
How to use Actionable Messages in Outlook with Power Automate
BlogPower Automate makes it easy to send actionable messages to Microsoft Teams, but did you know it is possible to send an actionable message from a Power Automate flow in an email from a user account?
Latest innovations to scale automation with Microsoft Power Automate
BlogToday at Microsoft Build, we announced new ways your organization can streamline business processes at scale with Microsoft Power Automate. Be sure to watch the Microsoft Build session, Exciting innovations in Power Automate, to learn about the latest innovations we’ve made to help to scale automation across your enterprise easier.
Advanced | Flow of the Week: Send parallel approval requests to a dynamic set of approvers
BlogIn this advanced FOTW post, learn how to create dynamic parallel approval requests using the new concurrency control settings in for each loops and also get a flavor for other Flow capabilities like variables, expressions, and ODATA filter queries.
Get notified when someone edits your flows and new expressions for working with URLs and Objects
BlogYou can make your co-workers Owners of your flows to collaborate on edits. Now, you will get email notifications when another owner modifies one of your flows. We also are adding some new expressions to make it easier to work with URLs and Objects. Finally, there are three new connectors this week: Plumsail SP, Plumsail Forms, and Kintone.
Intermediate | Flow of the Week: Using Flow to create internal Microsoft solutions
BlogIn this Microsoft Flow of the Week, Senior PM Jon Levesque walks you through building a Flow that is powering the partnership between Microsoft and UpWork. Come check out the story on how this came together, as well as how to build a similar Flow to solve a similar problem you may be facing!
Intermediate | Flow of the week: Approval reminders using parallel branches
BlogThis post will introduce parallel branches as a way to achieve concurrent Flow logic. It shows how to use parallel branches to send periodic reminders to approvers that stop once the approval is completed.
Beginner | Flow of the Week: Approval Timeout and Escalation
BlogYou are working with Microsoft Flow Approvals and you want to learn a couple of tricks to take them to the next level?! Of course you do! For this Beginner Flow of the Week, come and watch Senior PM – Jon Levesque show you how to create an approval time-out and escalation in under ten minutes!
Introduction to Power Automate RPA desktop flows analytics
BlogThe ability to monitor analytics of overall RPA (Robotic Process Automation) desktop flows is critical, so that you can view the overall automation health and adoption status across the whole organization. You now have two different options to monitor the analytics for RPA desktop flows — from Power Platform Admin Center or using the CoE Starter Kit.
AI Builder form processing models can now train using documents that have different layouts
BlogYou can now create a unique form processing model that will extract the same information from up to 100 different document layouts.
Power Automate Desktop October 2020 update
BlogPower Automate Desktop has introduced productivity and development enhancements in October 2020 update, including: run history logs with specific subflow information, action parameters that are grouped together for better legibility and retrieving From and To fields from emails.
Announcing Delay, Command-Line Arguments, and Copy-Paste Features for UI Flows
BlogPower Automate UI flows is excited to announce the delay, command-line argument, and copy-paste features to further empower users!
Intermediate | Flow of the Week: Get me an digest of today’s inspections in a single email
BlogIn this week’s Flow of the Week, we’ll look at how you can create a flow that sends you a digest of today’s scheduled inspections in a single email.
Triggers for Microsoft Planner, actions for SharePoint attachments, and other connector improvements
BlogThis week we are announcing that another top request from the community is now available: triggers for the Microsoft Planner connector. A second highly requested feature available this week is to work with Attachments in SharePoint lists. There is a new Flow management connector that can be used to automate the creation and management of flows. We also have four other new connectors: Enadoc, Custom Vision, the D&B Optimizer, and SIGNL4 (Derdack) and new functions in other connectors.
Microsoft Flow audit events now available in Office 365 Security & Compliance Center
BlogToday we are announcing that that Microsoft Flow events are discoverable within the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center for all Office 365 tenants in production. This means administrators can now understand how Microsoft Flow is being used within their organization. For example, which users are creating flows? Are flows being shared? What connectors are being used? And more!
Building flows from scratch that handle Microsoft Forms responses
BlogThis week we are sharing that Microsoft Forms triggers are much faster than before. This blog post walks through how you can build a flow from scratch that uses these new, nearly instantaneous Microsoft Forms triggers.
Advanced | Flow of the Week: Triage and Team Assignment with Microsoft Flow
BlogTriage and Team Assignment Flow Whats up Flow Friends! This post is written by George Culler and Brian Osgood from the Azure team.
Power Automate for desktop – December 2021 update
BlogPower Automate for desktop comes with new features in December 2021 release, including the unified recorder, the tenant picker, the ability to create copies of flows from the console, as well as multiple improvements over many different actions.
Power Automate for desktop – January 2022 update
BlogPower Automate for desktop comes with new additions in January 2022 release, including performance improvements during flow authoring and the restructure of Excel instance functionality to support multiple macros.
Tag incoming emails with AI Builder
BlogAI Builder is a Power Automate capability that provides AI models that are designed to optimize your business processes by gleaning insights from your data. There are many different ways that you can use AI Builder – this is the part one of a 3-part weekly series on some common ways to get started. Almost everyone has to deal with incoming emails as a part of their job – and AI Builder can help you to make meaning of this incoming flow of information.