Microsoft Power Automate Flow Foundations A-Z

Explore three triggers in Power Automate flow foundations: button, schedule, and events, with examples like sending emails, running on a schedule, and responding to events.

Create a scheduled flow with a recurring trigger to run every three minutes, sending an email notification, then monitor status and disable to avoid monthly quota limits.

Create an instant flow in Power Automate that triggers when a file is created in OneDrive and sends an email notification.

Monitor Twitter for mentions of Microsoft Flow, including negative tweets, with a tweet monitor flow, then email those tweets to yourself for protecting your brand and supporting customers.

Begin by exploring the basics of power automate flow: variables, data types such as text, numbers, booleans, and arrays, plus expressions and simple data initialization.

Master lists and arrays in Power Automate Flow Foundations A-Z by initializing or appending to a shopping list array, then email each item using apply to each.

Learn to clean up a shopping list string in Power Automate using expressions such as substring, add, and length to remove the trailing comma and space.

Wrap up shows how flow variables store data across steps using initialize and set variable. Use expressions to convert types, get string length, substrings, contains checks, and time calculations.

Explore how OData enables querying and filtering of lists, returning only items that match criteria such as category equals fruit or first name equals Scott for interoperable RESTful access.

Spot a common SharePoint flow pitfall where spaces in field names break get items queries, and fix it by removing spaces or using underscores; test the flow.

Explore control flow in Microsoft Power Automate, covering if-else conditions, loop types with their benefits and drawbacks, and switch statements to route multiple actions based on conditions.

Explore if statements in Power Automate flow foundations by building a voting eligibility check that sends email notifications based on age 18 or older, using condition actions and flow paths.

Automate saving tweets to an Excel file with Power Automate flow, triggering on new tweets and adding rows to a OneDrive Excel table.

Discover how to add parallel branches in a Power Automate flow to run two emails simultaneously on a manual trigger, with each branch executing independently.

Merge parallel branches in a flow so an action runs only after both branches finish, then send an email saying both branches have finished running.

Explore sentiment analysis in Power Automate, using predefined models to classify text as positive, negative, or neutral for automation workflows.

Build a Power Automate flow called image to text that uploads an image, uses a text recognition model, and emails extracted text by initializing a variable and appending lines.

Create a custom object detection model to recognize cats and dolphins by uploading 15 images per class, tagging them, training, and publishing for flows; test and expect 70-90 percent performance.

Explore advanced features of power automate flow, including api integration, triggering flows from apps, and calling public APIs to exchange data with Twitter, Facebook, Salesforce.

Learn to use Postman to test public APIs, trigger a Power Automate flow, and send requests to endpoints to retrieve data.

Explore HTTP and REST concepts, including GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE, and learn how APIs trigger flows, pass data, and exchange JSON payloads with web apps.

Define JSON as JavaScript object notation, a universal data exchange format; show key-value access and illustrate using JSON with Power Automate flow and HTTP API calls.

Trigger a flow from an http request using a json payload and a content-type header. Generate the request schema, test with Postman, and receive an email notification from the flow.

Wrap up advanced features of Power Automate flow foundations by reviewing get, post, put, and delete methods, API data exchanges, and integrating flows with external apps via API calls.