New ways to innovate with AI and Microsoft Power Automate
At Microsoft Ignite 2022, we were pleased to share some exciting innovations for Power Automate, empowering makers and pro-coders with new ways to automate and scale enterprise-wide with AI.
A new way to troubleshoot cloud flows – Trigger Outputs as identifier columns
This new capability allows cloud flow authors to efficiently identify and troubleshoot flows by being able to view flow’s trigger details in Flow Runs view.
The Automation Kit for Power Platform is designed to help organizations manage, govern, and scale automation platform adoption based on industry best practices. The Automation Kit for Power Platform is now available to the public as an open source GitHub project.
SharePoint cloud actions in Power Automate for Desktop: Introducing cloud connectors in desktop flows
Power Automate offers a rich experience when it comes to connecting to other services. With a toolkit of over 780 connectors, cloud flows can interact with the most popular services that are accessible by API. Today we’re excited to announce the first step in making cloud connectors available for Power Automate for desktop, starting with SharePoint (preview).
Mistakenly deleted your Power Automate flow. You can now restore Power Automate flows deleted in last 28 days. - Debajit's Power Apps & Dynamics 365 Blog
Power Automate for desktop comes with new additions in June 2022 release, including the support of more data types for input and output variables and the ability to trigger desktop flows via an external link.
Call SharePoint REST API in a custom connector (Power Apps/Power Automate)
The Power Automate action Send an HTTP request to SharePoint could come handy in many scenarios to execute SharePoint REST API queries but you will not able to use this action directly in Power App…
Making application lifecycle management (ALM) easier in Power Automate
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is the lifecycle management of applications and automations, including considerations like governance, development, and maintenance. Power Automate has recently released a number of improvements that make ALM easier.
Automate unstructured documents like contracts with AI Builder
With Power Automate and AI Builder you can now easily automate extracting information from unstructured documents such as contracts, statement of works, contracts, statement of work, financial or medical reports, publications, and many others.
Automation Maturity Model: Power Up your RPA and hyper-automation adoption journey!
The goal of the Power CAT Adoption Maturity Model for hyper-automation scenarios is to help organizations and their partners to think through how they can improve their capabilities and aligning them to improve business outcomes. A successful automation implementation requires technology, process and people to be aligned. The Power Automate maturity model is inspired by HEAT – Holistic Enterprise Automation Techniques and the Capability Maturity Model.
Two great self-service improvements: Restore deleted flow and doubled chatbot coverage
Now you can easily restore a deleted flow using Power Shell and PowerApps Administration cmdlets. We have also improved the experience for the Power Virtual Agents chatbot in the web site.
Discover exciting new experiences and capabilities in process advisor
We are announcing many exciting new experiences and capabilities in process advisor to empower you to visualize your process and get deeper insights to identify bottlenecks and optimization and automation opportunities. You can now gain insights on and improve your cloud flows with the help of process mining. With a few easy clicks, you can visualize your flow’s performance, identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities, and monitor for business drifts.
Introducing bulk resubmit and cancel for cloud flows
Announcing bulk resubmit and cancel
Resubmitting or canceling your flows is easy!
All you need to do is to go to the Run history page and select the runs you would like to resubmit or cancel. That’s it!
Once you have resubmitted or canceled the run, you will be able to see your canceled flows and successful resubmitted flow run on the run history page.
Want to learn more about resubmitting or canceling cloud flow runs in bulk? Check out our step-by-step guide here.
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Latest innovations to scale automation with Microsoft Power Automate
Today at Microsoft Build, we’re excited to announce new ways your organization can streamline business processes at scale with Microsoft Power Automate. Be sure to watch the Microsoft Build session, <a href="https://aka.ms/Build22-Automate-SessionInnovations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Exciting innovations in Power Automate</a>, to learn about the latest innovations we’ve made to help to scale automation across your enterprise easier.
Ever since I started my new adventure around low-code I have been trying to optimize my workflow. One of the things I started doing right away was around implem
Tip #1437: Duplicate property names in JSON objects in Power Automate
From time to time you may be forced to deal with JSON objects in Power Automate that contain duplicate property names. Consider this object, for example: { "Id": 42, "Name": "Fixing the machine", "From": "Edison", "Total": 1000, "Items": [ { "Id": 1, "Name": "Hammering",
Tip #1434: Can you count OR how to add index to array in Power Automate
When developers like Mike! start their sentence with "this is probably really simple", you know that it rarely is. (No idea why he's so excited about his name though, I suspect there is some math flex in here). This is probably really simple, but anyone know how I would add an index to an array o