1. Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate: Drive digital transformation with AI-powered automation and low-code business workflows FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Introducing Microsoft Power Automate

• What is Power Automate?
• Choosing what to automate
• Getting up to speed on general terminology
• Expanding into Power Automate terminology
• Getting Power Automate
• Summary

3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with Power Automate

• Logging in to Power Automate
• Learning how a flow works
• Creating your first flow
• Summary

4. Chapter 3: Working with email

• Learning about email connectors and actions
• Working with email
• Summary

5. Chapter 4: Copying files

• Learning about file connectors and actions
• Working with files
• Summary

6. Chapter 5: Creating Button Flows

• Learning about button flows
• Creating a button flow to email a manager
• Executing a button flow
• Verifying the flow
• Summary

7. Chapter 6: Generating push notifications

• Learning about push notifications
• Configuring a notification for emails from your manager
• Introducing conditions
• Creating the flow
• Reviewing a notification
• Reworking the flow
• Summary

8. Chapter 7: Working with shared flows

• Understanding shared flows
• Sharing a cloud flow
• Sharing a desktop flow
• Sharing a flow with Run only permissions
• Managing shared flows
• Summary

9. Chapter 8: Working with Conditions

• Understanding condition operators
• Using expressions and multiple conditions
• Summary

10. Chapter 9: Understanding Expressions and Functions

• Learning about expressions and functions
• Working with strings and text
• Manipulating times and dates
• Working with arrays
• Exploring further
• Summary

11. Chapter 10: Getting Started with Approvals

• Understanding Dataverse
• Creating an approval flow
• Working with the approval flow
• Summary

12. Chapter 11: Working with Multiple Approvals

• Working with sequential approvals
• Working with parallel approvals
• Working with advanced scenarios
• Creating a basic sequential approval
• Adding parallel branches
• Summary

13. Chapter 12: Posting Approvals to Teams

• Understanding the flow
• Configuring prerequisites
• Configuring an approval flow to use Teams
• Getting the requester's information
• Testing the flow
• Summary

14. Chapter 13: Using Databases

• Understanding database connectors, triggers, and actions
• Connecting to a database
• Creating a connection to a database
• Adding content to a database
• Summary

15. Chapter 14: Working with Microsoft Forms

• Understanding the Forms connector triggers and actions
• Creating a basic form
• Processing a form with Power Automate
• Testing the flow
• Verifying the result
• Summary

16. Chapter 15: Posting to Slack

• Understanding the Planner and Slack connectors
• Setting up the prerequisites
• Using Planner to trigger a flow
• Posting an update to a Slack channel
• Testing the flow
• Summary

17. Chapter 16: Accepting User Input

• Understanding the user input options
• Creating the flow
• Executing the flow
• Verifying the flow execution
• Expanding further
• Summary

18. Chapter 17: Automating Entra ID

• Technical requirements
• Learning about connectors and actions
• Configuring prerequisites
• Creating an HTTP flow
• Testing the flow
• Verifying the flow
• Expanding further
• Summary

19. Chapter 18: Introducing Robotic Process Automation

• Technical requirements
• Learning about actions and passing variables
• Configuring prerequisites
• Configuring the browser extensions
• Summary

20. Chapter 19: Contributing to an Access database with RPA

• Technical requirements
• Configuring prerequisites
• Configuring the flow
• Testing the flow
• Verifying the flow
• Summary

21. Chapter 20: Automating webpages with RPA

• Navigating web pages
• Scraping data
• Entering data
• Taking screenshots
• Summary

22. Chapter 21: Introducing AI Models and Generative AI

• Learning about AI Models
• Learning about Generative AI models
• Exploring Microsoft Copilot for the Power Platform
• Technical requirements
• Summary

23. Chapter 22: Creating a sentiment analysis flow

• What is sentiment analysis, anyway?
• Licensing prerequisites
• Configuring solution prerequisites
• Configuring a sentiment analysis flow
• Testing the flow
• Further exploration
• Summary

24. Chapter 23: Using Copilot to create and manage flows

• Creating a flow with Copilot
• Editing a flow
• Describing a flow
• Summary

25. Chapter 24: Using Generative AI to summarize documents

• Licensing prerequisites
• Configuring solution prerequisites
• Creating the flow
• Testing the flow
• Further exploration
• Summary

26. Chapter 25: Exporting, importing, and distributing flows

• Exporting a flow
• Importing a flow
• Distributing a flow
• Summary

27. Chapter 26: Monitoring and troubleshooting flows

• Monitoring flows
• Viewing a run history
• Resubmitting a flow
• Reviewing email error reports
• Resolving authentication errors
• Examining detailed errors with the flow checker
• Summary

28. Chapter 27: Governance in the Power Platform

• Understanding governance concepts
• Power Platform Center of Excellence
• Compliance controls
• Summary