Microsoft Power Automate | How we use Power Automate

Power Automate, previously known as Microsoft Flow, is for automating your workflow operations. In this video, we're going to show you how we use it at Collaboration Coach with SharePoint and Planner to:

• Prefix our new folder names with a unique ID number
• Copy over a template doc to new folders we create
• Create a Planner task with the same name as that folder
• Create a checklist within the task
• Put a link in the Planner task to the corresponding folder in SharePoint

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:45 Why automate?
01:25 How it works (our flows in action)
03:44 Under the hood (showing you how we built the flows in the Power Automate editor)

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[falmaskari]

Excellent video that highlights how to use power automate in a practical application

[schylerjones]

Wow, this is awesome. I knew PA was pretty capable but seeing this really stokes my imagination with several ideas for how we can apply it to our own workflows - thank you!

[andrewmitchell]

Love this Matt. I can see multiple applications to improve our HR and Client Service workflows. Great job.

[willyoung]

Just found a very useful application for this, thank you

[zmperry]

Awesome! Great insight. Thanks so much.

[superjguru]

This is brilliant. I am trying to get our marketing team to change the way they plan content. This is going to form part of my demo.

[sultandhaliwal]

Hi - Can you help me with my query?

I have a folder which has hundreds of files such as Invoices from different suppliers pertaining to different months, statements from different suppliers pertaining to different months, and lastly bank payment receipts pertaining to different suppliers and different months.

Now, I wish to automate moving all these files to respective supplier folders which have already existing subfolders with different months. So, all the files get filed to thr right locations.

How can I do this please?

[barking_mad]

Power Automate is great, it can be a bit temperamental though!

[ChrisMcGrory]

The "Send an HTTP request to SharePoint" section of this automation always gets stuck for me. When I look in the details of the Run History, it tells me "1 retries occured" with status "BadGateway'. Any idea of how I can fix this to get this automation to work?

[JohnDrogado]

Power Automate is fun until you have to work with dates. Great Video.

[masapequenadianajoy]

Can power automate do the same things with Google Sheets / Zoho / LibreOffice / OpenOffice?

[fv]

not a bad video but ... all this work to set a few columns, not so compelling to me