You're reading from Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate Achieve digital transformation through business automation with minimal coding

Product type Hardcover

Published in Dec 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781836649632

Length

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Power automative desktop

Concepts

Workflow Automation

Author (1):

Aaron Guilmette

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

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

3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with Power Automate

4. Chapter 3: Working with email

5. Chapter 4: Copying files

6. Chapter 5: Creating Button Flows

7. Chapter 6: Generating push notifications

8. Chapter 7: Working with shared flows

9. Chapter 8: Working with Conditions

10. Chapter 9: Understanding Expressions and Functions

11. Chapter 10: Getting Started with Approvals

12. Chapter 11: Working with Multiple Approvals

13. Chapter 12: Posting Approvals to Teams

14. Chapter 13: Using Databases

15. Chapter 14: Working with Microsoft Forms

16. Chapter 15: Posting to Slack

17. Chapter 16: Accepting User Input

18. Chapter 17: Automating Entra ID

19. Chapter 18: Introducing Robotic Process Automation

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

21. Chapter 20: Automating webpages with RPA

22. Chapter 21: Introducing AI Models and Generative AI

23. Chapter 22: Creating a sentiment analysis flow

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

25. Chapter 24: Using Generative AI to summarize documents

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

27. Chapter 26: Monitoring and troubleshooting flows

28. Chapter 27: Governance in the Power Platform

Testing the flow

With the flow saved, it's time to trigger it.

Navigate to your plan.
Pick an existing task or create a new one, as shown in Figure 15.9.
Enter a name for the task and then click Assign. Select a name.

Let's go take a look at Slack!

Figure 15.11 – Viewing the Slack message

Oh, no! It looks like there's a problem! The user names are displaying as numbers instead of names! Let's dive in to see what went wrong and how we can fix it.

Troubleshooting the output

If you're familiar with administering Microsoft 365, you might recognize the format of the numbers being shown in place of names. What went wrong here?Let's go take a look at the output of the flow.In the...