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Create flows easily with the new Power Automate app for Teams
BlogOver the past year, Power Automate has been integrating more deeply with Microsoft Teams to help you automate your work and be more productive. We’ve introduced features like triggering a flow from any message and new Teams actions like create a meeting and mention support that allow rich and complex workflows within Teams.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Update your language settings, five new connectors including Adobe Creative Cloud, and more
BlogThis week we added the ability to change your language and region settings independent of your browser’s settings. There are also five new connectors: Adobe Creative Cloud, Bing Maps, Bing Search, JotForm and Freshservice. Finally, there are a number of other small improvements, such as the configuration of timeouts for long running operations like approvals.
Seven new connectors and other new features like converting HTML to plain text
BlogThis week we have introduced seven new connectors: Azure Application Insights – an extensible analytics service that helps you understand the performance and usage of your live web application, Calendly, Content Conversion for converting HTML content, such as from emails, to plain text, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Teamwork Projects, and Teradata.
Flow Community Blog Highlights
BlogHave you visited the Flow Community blog lately? Along with rapidly growing forums, fun and informative events, and ways to leave feedback, the Community blog is a platform for you to share ideas with your peers, industry experts, and us here at Microsoft. To get started, simply message me, @JessicaC, with a rough title for your post and a couple of sentences to describe your topic. Now let’s check out some great posts from May!
More action settings and four new connectors
BlogFlow now gives advanced users more control over how their triggers and actions run, including configuring retry policies and pagination. We also released four new connectors: Azure File Storage, Elastic Forms, Plivo, and Video Indexer.
Q2 Update for Microsoft Flow
BlogNew updates to Microsoft Flow allow for richer administrative and lifecycle control – solutions built with Flow can be imported and exported as packages. Microsoft Flow also has integration Azure Logic apps: any Flow can now be converted to a Logic app. To enable richer Flow, Customers can now use Excel-like expressions in Flow actions and configure button inputs and button sharing. Finally, a range of Microsoft products – including SharePoint, OneDrive for Business and Dynamics 365 – are adding the power of end-user automation by embedding Flow more deeply in their user experiences and will be available in the coming weeks.
Intermediate | Flow of the Week: Remind you to follow up on High Importance emails you send
BlogWhen you send an email marked as high importance, you want to get a prompt response. However, sometimes your co-workers may not respond quickly. This flow will remind you four hours after you send an email marked as High Importance, if, and only if, nobody responds to it. Try it now!
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.
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.
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.
Trigger your Flow buttons from the Flow web site
BlogYou can now trigger Flow buttons right from the Flow web portal. When looking at your list of flows, simply select the “…” menu and choose the Run now command. This week, we are also adding support for five new services, including Oracle Database.
Five new services and improved advanced capabilities for JSON and HTTP
BlogWe five new services in the last week: Azure Data Lake, Bitbucket, Eventbrite, Infusionsoft and Pipedrive. In the flow designer it’s now possible to use authentication with custom HTTP endpoints, and to parse JSON objects returned from APIs. Finally, we added more options for filtering flow runs.
Welcome to Microsoft Flow
BlogMicrosoft Flow can accelerate your business so you spend less time on mundane, repetitive tasks, and more time on what you want to do. Take a couple minutes today to sign up for free at https://flow.microsoft.com/.
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.
Add comments to steps, Smartsheet support, and more
BlogThis week we have a few new features available, including the ability to add comments to steps, connectivity to Smartsheet, some refinements to the UI to make it easier to rename and save flow, and videos for many of our help documents.
Microsoft Flow at WPC 2016
BlogCheck out the Microsoft Flow session from WPC 2016 in Toronto. We cover basic concepts, as well as packaging with Office 365 and our roadmap. Watch it here
Flow of the Week: Get notified about posts to Yammer, Twitter or Disqus with negative sentiment
BlogGet notified when someone posts something negative in a Yammer group, about a Twitter keyword, or in a Disqus channel with this flow of the week. It will check if the sentiment is negative with the Cognitive Services Text Analytics API, and if it is, it will translate the post into English, and then send you a push notification to your iOS or Android device with the translated text and a link to the post.