Automating Tasks using Power Automate 

A 1-day intensive training in Power Automate

DURATION:  1-DAY (8 HOURS)

DIFFICULTY LEVEL: BASIC

Outline

1.  Overview

The Power Platform

What's Power Automate?

What's automation and RPA?

Setting up and accessing Power Automate

Power Automate Environments

2.  Types of flows

What are cloud flows, desktop flows and business process flows?

3.  Cloud flows

Introduction to automated flows, scheduled flows and instant flows.

Understanding Connectors and Triggers

How to create flows- starting it from blank, from a template and from a connector

How to use the Templates menu to create flows

4.  Building Simple Workflows

Using Basic Actions and Conditions

Managing Variables and Expressions

Debugging and Testing Your Flow

Best Practices for Building Simple Workflows

5.  Advanced Automation Techniques

Using variables and loops

Conditional logic in automations

Error handling and debugging

6.  Integration with Microsoft 365

Automating Tasks in Outlook 365, Microsoft Forms and SharePoint

Creating Approval Workflows and events with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Forms and Outlook 365

7.  Introduction to Power Automate Desktop

Overview of Power Automate Desktop

Understanding automation concepts

8.  Getting Started with Power Automate Desktop

Interface walkthrough

Building your first simple automation

Understanding actions and triggers

9.  Automating Desktop tasks

Consolidating Excel 365 files

Extracting text from images with OCR