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Introducing Microsoft Flow integration in Excel
BlogFlow is now integrated into Microsoft Excel! With this integration that uses the For a selected row trigger and the Flow launch panel, you can create and trigger on-demand flows for selected rows in any Excel table on spreadsheets hosted in SharePoint or OneDrive for Business. The Microsoft Flow for Excel add-in enables you to connect your data to a wide range of services such as SharePoint, Outlook 365, Dynamics 365, Teams, Visual Studio Online, Twitter, Approvals, etc. In this post, we’ll walk you through this new capability with a hands-on example.
Advanced | Flow of the Week: When a new item is created, automatically populate a SharePoint lookup column calculated field
BlogThis post will show how to automatically calculate and update a column in a SharePoint list when an item is created or modified. It’s common practice in SharePoint to use lookup columns to manage…
Introducing HTTP and Custom Connector Support for Data Loss Prevention Policies
BlogHello Flow Fans! FIRST! We want to thank Dorian Stubblefield who joined the Flow team as an intern from Washington University in St. Louis for driving the implementation of this feature And now onto the post! We have made some recent investments into our Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities. More specifically, we are adding support …
Advanced | Flow of the Week: Creating an AtBot ChatBot connected to Dynamics 365
BlogCreating Bots that integrate with Dynamics 365 has not been the easiest thing to do in the past for non-developers because it has required a lot of coding to be done, and also in order to change the conversation flows you needed to update and redeploy the code for the Bot to make it available to the users. Recently I was introduced to a partner solution called AtBot that allows us to create Bot services through the AtBot portal that links to LUIS and Azure Bot Services, allowing us to build conversation flows and dialogs using Flow as the authoring engine. This allows us to build Bots with zero coding experience that also leverages the power of Flow to connect to other services seamlessly, allowing us to integrate Dynamics 365 using the standard entities. In this walkthough we will show you how to configure and build an AtBot Bot that connects to Dynamics 365, using LUIS as the engine for discoving the users intent and deploy it out to chat platforms like Microsoft Teams. This is gold I tell you, gold!
Best practices for Production flows
BlogThe Power Automate team has many flows that we rely on internally for day-to-day operations, but they were scattered about with little central management or oversight. It took some changes from our own admins to encourage us to get our house in order. Read on to see what we learned in the process.
Process receipts and translate text with AI Builder
BlogDo more with your text data and receipts using AI. We are excited to announce two new models now available in AI Builder: Receipt processing and Text translation.
Use our new Office 365 Groups Mail Connector!
BlogWe are excited to announce the release of a new connector which unlocks these key scenarios – the Office 365 Groups Mail connector! This connector contains operations which work with a specified Group mailbox and unblocks many business scenarios around automating workflows with Group mailboxes.
Power Automate UI Flows August 2020 update
BlogPower Automate UI Flows August 2020 update is excited to announce Cancel UI flows, RDP Wave update, Do Until, and the SAPGUI support features!
Power Automate + Adaptive Cards introduces business form scenarios on Microsoft Teams
BlogIf you have been leveraging Adaptive Cards to display targeted data in Microsoft Teams, you’ll be thrilled to find out that now you can collect data with cards too!
Unattended Robotic Process Automation and AAD support now available in UI flows (Preview)
BlogWe are excited to announce the preview of one of the most requested feature by our customers: unattended UI flows. Unattended UI flows run without human supervision. This is best for scenarios such as processing invoices and entering them into a legacy application automatically, or scheduled financial reconciliation across multiple systems that can only be automated by clicking user interfaces.
Advanced | Flow of the Week: Get a daily email with the top failures captured in Application Insights
BlogToday, i would like to show you how to address an issue which has been surfaced by one of our partners. As the Application Insights team recently shared with us, one of the most common questions from their users is: “How do I get periodic emails with the results of an Analytics query? “. Let’s build a flow which does precisely that. There is now a very simple answer for this, thanks to the new Azure Application Insights connector which was recently introduced.
Connecting Flow to the real world – Flows can now be triggered directly from physical buttons
BlogToday I’m happy to introduce a highly-anticipated milestone: Flow users can now trigger their workflows using physical buttons. This capability comes as a first step of connecting Flow to the real world, to enable leveraging Microsoft Flow for so many more business scenarios. The breadth of services which Flow can connect to, and the depth of Flow logic you can apply – all behind a physical button! Need a simple way to order more inventory in a production floor? to call Tech support in a conference room? to track your consulting work hours for various companies? Just push the button. Microsoft is delivering these capabilities through partnerships with two of the leading products in the physical button space, each with its strong and unique business value: Flic by Shortcut Labs, and Bttn by The Button Corporation.
Introducing Microsoft Flow integration for SharePoint Document Libraries
BlogFlow is now integrated into SharePoint document libraries! Using the integration, you can select any file in a document library and send it to your manager for approval, ask for feedback over email or Yammer, and even add a reminder in Outlook Tasks, Wunderlist, or Trello.
Boost Operational Responsiveness with Microsoft Flow and Nexmo
BlogWhat’s the best way to notify stakeholders when a business item needs immediate attention? Is it an email marked as high priority? A push notification from a mobile app? A direct message in Slack? All are perfectly viable business communication channels, but if those stakeholders are like most people, none will get their attention as consistently as SMS text messages. Studies from SinglePoint and mobileSQUARED have shown SMS open rates in the range of 97-99%, which dwarfs the open rate of any other communications channel. With the messaging capabilities now available in Microsoft Flow from Nexmo, the Vonage API Platform, you can make sure all important business notifications are delivered via SMS or text-to-speech messages. Augmenting your existing notifications with ad hoc, custom SMS alerts—or creating entirely new ones—will ensure nothing important falls through the cracks. Learn more in this post!
Flow of the week: Streamline document signing and on-boarding processes
BlogLearn how to automate your document signing and personnel onboarding processes. Cut out the busy-work in just a few simple steps by using Flow.
Flow of the Week: Streamline approvals by sending files with approval requests.
BlogCreate a flow in a few simple steps that makes approving files and managing project assets easy.
New this week: Design Your Own Swag t-shirt contest!
BlogWe want to help you dress for success! Some of our product t-shirts in the past have reached legendary status — everyone loves the “I’ve Got the Power BI” shirt! — and now we want to have your snazzy or crazy t-shirt ideas reach new heights at the 2017 Data Insights Summit, held June 12 – 13 in Seattle, WA. That’s why we’re holding a Design Your Own Swag t-shirt competition this week in the Flow Community.
Create your custom integrations in Microsoft Flow using our new and improved Custom API experience
BlogThis week we have new functionality to make it easier to integrate your services with Custom APIs using simple easy to use UI components. This blog post aims to teach you how to use a Postman collection to create a Custom API, edit, add and test actions. We are also announcing support for two new services: PowerApps Notifications and PivotalTracker.
The Power of SharePoint
BlogDo you have SharePoint Online and want to better automate and streamline your business processes? Have you heard of PowerApps, Microsoft Flow, or Power BI, but you’re not sure how to use them with SharePoint Online? You’ve come to the right place!
SharePoint and Flow
BlogIn this post, Merwan Hade and Kerem Yuceturk, from the Flow and SharePoint teams respectively, walk you through the integration of Microsoft Flow into SharePoint Online lists and libraries.
Flow of the week: Get new articles from your favorite blog in your inbox
BlogGet new articles from your favorite blog delivered directly in your inbox. All you need to bring is your email provider and the RSS feed url of the blog or website.
Flow templates for educators
BlogThe EDU teams within Microsoft have surveyed hundreds of teachers around the world and created automated workflows on common tasks in education including creating tasks for onboarding new teachers, automating registration, tracking professional development credits, and more. Try these templates and take them apart to get started with Power Automate.
Microsoft named a Leader in the 2021 Forrester Wave for Robotic Process Automation
BlogOver the past year, Microsoft Power Automate doubled down on its investments in the robotic process automation (RPA) space, acquiring Softomotive, announcing the general availability of Power Automate Desktop, and making Power Automate Desktop available to Windows 10 users at no additional cost. Today, we are excited to share that the investments are paying off—Microsoft Power Automate has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Robotic Process Automation, Q1 2021.
Microsoft Business Applications Virtual Launch Event Recap for Power Automate
BlogThe Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event is over. This blog contains the summary of robotics process automation (RPA) updates in Power Automate.
Four New Connectors Released in May
BlogPower Automate has four more innovative connectors. Be it finding details over 40 million locations in the UK or need a better way to integrate contract reviews in your workflow or improve business processes or use a solution to validate contacts in real-time, it’s all here. Come jump in to check out the latest addition to the Power Automate connectors listing.