Power Automate Part 4 – The Compose action and debugging

By Andy Brown

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This tutorial shows how you can create a text file in OneDrive when someone selects a file in SharePoint. The flow you’ll create uses a Compose action (one of the most important in Power Automate) to bring the information you want to export together, before using a OneDrive action to create a text file. You’ll also learn about the limitations of debugging in Power Automate, and how to get round these.

Chapters
00:00 Topic list
01:09 The example for this tutorial – selecting a SharePoint file
02:16 Setting up SharePoint and OneDrive
03:51 Choosing your environment (important!)
05:07 Creating the SharePoint trigger
07:04 The Compose action
08:50 Writing to a text file
09:47 Running our flow
11:58 Debugging (insofar as you can)
14:14 Flows containing errors

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