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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.
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.
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.
Ten New Connectors Released in June 2020!
BlogIn June 2020 we released ten new connectors for Power Automate, bringing us to over 350 connectors on the platform.
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!
Microsoft acquires Softomotive to expand low-code robotic process automation capabilities in Microsoft Power Automate
BlogToday, we are announcing the acquisition of Softomotive, a world-leading provider of robotic process automation (RPA) provider with over 15 years of experience and the creator of WinAutomation.
New licensing options for PowerApps and Microsoft Flow standalone paid plans
BlogWe’ve seen tremendous growth in the usage of PowerApps and Flow over the course of the past year. Just as we’ve been rolling out new features in response to user input, we’re also listening to input about how to license and implement premium capabilities. In response to these needs, we’re pleased to announce two new plans that we will be introducing later this year: a PowerApps per app plan and a Flow per business process plan.
Intermediate | Flow of the week: Create PDF Invoices Using Word Templates with Microsoft Flow
BlogJohn MacDougall is a Microsoft MVP and freelance consultant and trainer for hire specializing in Excel, Power BI, Flow, PowerApps and SharePoint. You can find more interesting articles from John on his blog or YouTube channel. In this post he is going to show you how you can use the new Word connectors in Flow to easily create some really nice looking PDF invoices.
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.
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.
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.
Optimizing custom connectors through enhanced built-in validations
BlogWe are pleased to announce that we are optimizing connectors through enhanced validations. This means that all of the connectors you use, whether it’s one of the almost 300 out-of-box connectors provided by the Power Platform, or one of the custom connectors built within your organization, will see fewer run time errors, and a more consistent, and maintainable, experience.
Power Automate UI Flows December 2019 update is now available
BlogPower Automate UI Flows December 2019 update is now available with new supports for International Keyboard Layout Support and UI Localizations, as well as addressed some playback issues.
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!
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.
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.
Discover, learn and create flows using in product help!
BlogLooking for guidance on how to get started with a trigger or action and popular scenarios with examples? Today we are announcing the availability of a new Power Virtual Agents-based chatbot and contextual help while building flows.
AI Builder July 2021 update
BlogWe are excited to announce the general availability of several AI Builder capabilities, new additions which will improve our document automation capabilities, as well as some language and geographic coverage extensions.
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.
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!
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.
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!
Introducing the new mobile app for Microsoft Flow
BlogToday, we are pleased to introduce another major piece of our offering: a mobile app now available for download on iOS (soon also on Android). As shows on our short App video, the app gives you the power to manage, track, and explore your automated workflows anytime and anywhere.
Manage connection access while sharing button flows to enable richer scenario
BlogIntroducing new connection configuration option for button flows, that now allows you to build richer, more advanced flows and share them within your organization.
Rebinding Deleted or Broken Connections in an Existing Flow
BlogThis simple walkthrough shows you how to fix a flow that has a broken or deleted connection. Connections represent the credentials or configuration that are used to connect to the various services your flow needs, and this walkthough demonstrates fixing them inside of the flow UI designer.