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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate: Use business process automation to achieve digital transformation with minimal code, 2nd Edition 2nd edition
by Aaron Guilmette(Author)
Publisher Finelybook 出版社: Packt Publishing; 2nd edition (August 19, 2022)
Language 语言: English
pages 页数: 420 pages
ISBN-10 书号: 1803237678
ISBN-13 书号: 9781803237671
Book Description
Make your organization more productive and simplify your workflow by using Microsoft Power Automate for business process automation
Key Features
Learn the latest in Power Automate with updated user interface visuals and new technology included
Apply practical knowledge like managing user inputs, documents, approvals, and database storage
Create flows that integrate with services both inside and outside the Microsoft 365 ecosystem
Book Description
MS Power Automate is a workflow automation tool built into MS 365 to help businesses automate repetitive tasks or trigger business processes without user intervention. It is a low-code tool that is part of the Microsoft applications framework, the Power Platform.
If you are new to Power Automate, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction and a smooth transition from beginner to advanced topics to help you get up to speed with business process automation. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to configure automation workflows for business processes between hundreds of applications, using examples within Microsoft and including third-party apps like Dropbox and Twitter. Once you understand how to use connectors, triggers, and actions to automate business processes, you'll learn how to manage user input, documents, and approvals, as well as interact with databases. This edition also introduces new Power Automate features such as using robotic process automation (RPA) to automate legacy applications, interacting with the Microsoft Graph API, and working with artificial intelligence models to do sentiment analysis.
By the end of this digital transformation book, you'll have mastered the basics of using Power Automate to replace repetitive tasks with automation technology.
What you will learn
Learn the basic building blocks of Power Automate capabilities
Explore connectors in Power Automate to automate email workflows
Discover how to make a flow for copying files between cloud services
Configure Power Automate Desktop flows for your business needs
Build on examples to create complex database and approval flows
Connect common business applications like Outlook, Forms, and Teams
Learn the introductory concepts for robotic process automation
Discover how to use AI sentiment analysis
Who this book is for
This book is excellent for information workers and Power users who are looking to automate repetitive tasks for their organizations or for projects they are undertaking. To make the most of this book you should have some basic exposure to the MS 365 platform.
Table of contents
1. Introducing Microsoft Power Automate
2. Getting Started with Power Automate
3. Working with Email
4. Copying files
5. Creating Button Flows
6. Generating Push Notifications
7. Working with Shared Flows
8. Working with Conditions
9. Getting Started with Approvals
10. Working with Multiple Approvals
11. Posting Approvals to Teams
12. Using a Database
13. Working with Microsoft Forms
14. Accepting User Input
15. Automating Azure AD
16. Introducing Robotic Process Automation
17. Introducing Al Models
18. Exporting, Importing, and Distributing Flows
19. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Flows
