Getting started with Power Automate(Microsoft Flow)

What is Power Automate?

Power Automate is an online workflow service that helps you create automated workflows between your business apps and services like synchronizing files, get notifications, collect data and many more.

For example, you can create a lead in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and a record in mail chimp whenever someone with more than 100 followers tweet about your company.

Types of Flows

Following are the types of flows you can create using Power Automate.

Flow Type	Use Case
Automated Flows	Create a flow that performs one or more tasks automatically after it's triggered by an event.
Button Flows	Run repetitive tasks from anyplace, at any time, via your mobile device.
Scheduled Flows	Create a flow that performs one or more tasks on a schedule.
Business Process Flows	Define a set of steps for people to follow to take them to a desired outcome.

Using Power Automate you can connect to more than 220 services, and can manage your business data either in cloud on in on-premises sources like SharePoint, OneDrive, Dynamics 365 etc.

Create and Administer a flow

You can create a flow by signing-in to Power Automate site in a browser or using Power Automate mobile App on your phone. 

Create your first flow

Let us create our first flow which will store all our email attachments in a folder on OneDrive.

1. Sign in to Power Automate
2. Select Save Office 365 email attachments to OneDrive for Business template from Templates menu.
   
3. Click on Create Flow button
   
   
   
   
4. Flow will be automatically created for you on the basis on the selected template.
   
   
   
5. Now to test the flow, Send an email to your account with an attachment.
   
6. Login to OneDrive for business account you should be able to see the attachment file created under folder named "Email attachments from Flow".
   
   
   
7. You can see Run history in the Runs section of the selected flow.