How to Learn Microsoft Power Automate – Full Tutorial (2022)

This full video tutorial shows how to learn Microsoft Power Automate. You’ll learn Power Automate fast and automation developer best practices with simple use cases.

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0:00 Intro
This video tutorial will teach you how to build flows with Microsoft Power Automate. Two examples are covered: How to save email attachments into a OneDrive folder and how to use AI builder to process document data into an Excel sheet. To install and set up Power Automate, go to office.com and log in.

0:51 Our First Power Automate flow
Our first Microsoft Power Automate flow is an automated cloud flow. We want to build a flow that runs each time we get an email with an attachment. The flow should save the attachment in a folder. Because an email can have more than one attachment, we use the Apply to each action to iterate through each attachment. We’ll use the output from the trigger in our Apply to each. Finally, use the Create file action from OneDrive for Business to save the attachment into a OneDrive folder. Power Automate stores the log info for the flow in 28 days. To find your Power Automate flows, you can click on My Flows.

14:16 How to Use Templates
In the Templates section of Power Automate, many pre-built flows are ready for you to use. Templates are a great place to learn because we can open them and quickly determine what’s going on and which actions are used.

19:06 Flow Types
An automated cloud flow is triggered by an event. The instant cloud flow runs manually. We can schedule flow and even use RPA with Power Automate for Desktop. However, business process flows involve humans, and process advisor is process mining.

20:22 Date and Time
Working with date and time in Power Automate is straightforward. The Current time and Covert time zone actions are used to get a date and convert it to a custom format. We can use the formatted date and time for creating dynamic file names that always are unique.

29:24 AI Builder
The AI Builder in Microsoft Power Automate is powerful. Quickly we can create a flow that processes documents and save the data in, e.g., Excel. The AI can process both image files and PDFs, and we’ll use it to process invoices. To use the AI Builder in a flow, we use a trigger and the Extract information from invoices action. Then, we save the information to Excel, and here it’s very important that our Excel data needs to be formatted as a table.

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