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Introducing the Microsoft Flow Community Blog

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The Microsoft Flow Community was created as a place for Flow users to learn and interact together, and so today we’re happy to announce the official launch of our latest feature: the Flow Community Blog. The blog is your platform to share knowledge with peers, industry experts, and us here at Microsoft. We want to hear what’s got you thinking about Microsoft Flow and workflow automation!

Power Automate UI Flows January 2020 update is now available

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Power Automate UI Flows January 2020 update is now available focusing on reliability improvements.

Power Automate for desktop – March 2022 update

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Power Automate for desktop comes with new additions in March 2022 release, including the support of Internet Explorer mode in Microsoft Edge for web actions.

14 New Verified Connectors and 15 Updates released in April 2022

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We launched 14 new API Owner connectors and 15 updates in April 2022. Partners are excited about the release of their connectors and have shared an overview of their services and feature updates. Read the post to learn more about the capabilities of these services.

Two great self-service improvements: Restore deleted flow and doubled chatbot coverage

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Now you can easily restore a deleted flow using Power Shell and PowerApps Administration cmdlets. We have also improved the experience for the Power Virtual Agents chatbot in the web site.

Automate unstructured documents like contracts with AI Builder

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With Power Automate and AI Builder you can now easily automate extracting information from unstructured documents such as contracts, statement of works, contracts, statement of work, financial or medical reports, publications, and many others.

Use Microsoft Flow with Workday HCM and ServiceNow

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This week we are announcing two new premium connectors – Workday HCM – which contains operations that expose Workday Human Capital Management Business Services data, including Employee, Contingent Worker and Organization information, and, ServiceNow – create, read and update records stored within ServiceNow including Incidents, Questions, Users and more. In addition, we are releasing two other partner connectors and a new Productivity template collection.

Microsoft Ignite 2017 on-demand sessions for Microsoft Flow now available

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We had a dozen sessions at Microsoft Ignite, and the videos are now available for you to watch on-demand, including an introduction to Microsoft Flow, comparing Microsoft Flow to SharePoint workflows, and a deep dive on using expressions.

Q3 Update for Microsoft Flow

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At Microsoft Ignite 2017 we have many great announcements: there are new SharePoint integrations, including “In-the-box” send for review flows. Microsoft Flow is now integrated in Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement. We are providing better visibility for admins: we are listed on the Microsoft Trust center – showing certifications, like HIPAA, ISO and SOC – we have Power BI analytics, and, audit logs in Office 365. Finally, there is richer connectivity with six new connectors like LinkedIn, Office 365 Groups and Skype for Business, and we even added SQL triggers and support for Custom connectors that connect on-prem.

Microsoft Inspire 2017 session recap

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This year there were three sessions at Microsoft Inspire that covered Microsoft Flow, along with related products like Microsoft PowerApps. You can check out recordings of the sessions here.

More September Updates for Flow

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Coming by the end of the month are some more new features, including: a Microsoft Graph people picker, Microsoft Dynamics AX Online support, and two new services from partners: Insightly and appFigures.

Microsoft Flow now available for everyone

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Microsoft Flow can accelerate your business so you spend less time on mundane, repetitive tasks, and more time on what you want to do. Today we are announcing the Microsoft Flow preview is now completely open to anyone, including those of you who don’t have a work or school email address. Take a couple minutes today to sign up for free at flow.microsoft.com.

Automate tasks with Power Automate Desktop for Windows 10—no additional cost

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In 2020, Microsoft Power Automate doubled down on its investments in the robotic process automation (RPA) space with the introduction of Microsoft Power Automate Desktop. We first introduced RPA in Power Automate at Microsoft Ignite in 2019, and we have seen tremendous growth with hundreds of thousands of organizations using Power Automate and taking billions of actions each month.

Improved Calendar, SharePoint, Approval, Button and Connector capabilities

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This August, we released new calendar templates that copy events between Google Calendar and Office 365 or Outlook.com. Second, we now support read and write for multiple-value fields in SharePoint that are Choice, Person or Lookup types. Third, you can now send approvals on behalf of other users in your organization – for example, the person who uploaded the file in the SharePoint list, instead of the person who created the flow. Fourth, buttons have two new input types: Number and Yes/No. Finally, there are improvements to several connectors.

Build more powerful conditions in flows and more

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Use a new advanced condition builder to have conditional logic based on And / Or statements in a flow. Peek into the JSON code of actions in the Microsoft Flow designer. There is a new feature built-in to SharePoint: if a list or library has a date/time column, Microsoft Flow can be used to set up alerts based on upcoming dates. Finally, there are two new connectors: Microsoft Graph Security and XooaDB.

Introducing the Microsoft Flow Partner program and Six new services

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Microsoft Flow now has a certified partner program to make connections, and take advantage of different company’s talents and experience with Microsoft Flow around the world. We are also releasing six new services this week: Asana, Campfire, EasyRedmine, JIRA, Redmine, and Vimeo.

Announcing Microsoft Flow webinar and other updates

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We had our first public webinar on May 10th at 10AM PDT for getting acquainted with Microsoft Flow. Go here to watch the recording.

May updates to Microsoft Flow

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We have a lot of new updates to Flow from the past couple of weeks: Browse templates by service, easily switch on-and-off flows, create Custom APIs, and test your flows before exiting.

Automate workflows with Power Automate connector for Updates in Microsoft Teams

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In this blog, you will learn how to use the Updates Power Automate connector – a feature that lets you create workflows with the Updates Teams app. You will also find out what you need to do before using this connector and how to set it up step by step.

11 New Independent Publisher Connectors in February 2023

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We are excited to announce that we have 11 new Independent Publisher connectors that were published in February 2023. Read about the connectors, learn about the talented publishers, and take a look at the connector files!

New Microsoft Power Automate features to develop and orchestrate automation

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At Microsoft Build 2023, we’re sharing new ways you can automate and orchestrate business processes across your organization with Microsoft Power Automate.

July 2023 update of Power Automate for desktop

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Power Automate for desktop comes with new additions in 2023 July’s release, including the introduction of Office 365 Outlook actions, new actions for the scripting and work queues modules, a new tool to inspect and handle UI elements and a troubleshooter with certain diagnostics.

July 2023 updates for AI Builder

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New updates for AI Builder available in July 2023, including availability of the GPT action and activity monitoring.

Easier automation management with flows in Dataverse by default

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Now you can more easily manage automations by storing them automatically in Dataverse by default. Developers and admins can now easily migrate their non-solution cloud flows into Dataverse as well.

Microsoft announces preview of new Copilot capabilities in Power Automate Process Mining

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On August 1, we announced the general availability of Microsoft Power Automate Process Mining. Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of new Copilot capabilities in Power Automate Process Mining (in limited preview—US only). You can try it for free with a Power Automate trial license.