Course Outline - Microsoft Teams for End Users

Power Automate Introduction

Course Duration: One Day

Target Audience:

The intended audience for this course would be those who have been using Office 365 for some time and are now looking at optimising their existing business processes and designing new ones.

Course Objectives:

Power Automate is part of the Microsoft Power Platform and is a powerful tool used to create automation flows for workflow processes. The objective of this course is to explore the capabilities of the Power Automate service. Course participants will learn how to identify common components such as flow types, connectors, conditions, expressions, and approvals. Participants will also learn how to build basic flows that can be started immediately with a button, based on an automated trigger, or on a set schedule. We'll explore how to update your flows and correct any issues that might interfere with your flow running successfully.

Course Outline:

Introduction

  • What is Power Automate
  • What is Power Automate
  • Terminology

Overview

  • Accessing Power Automate
  • Navigating Power Automate

Identifying Flow Types

Using Flow Templates

  • Create a flow using a template
  • Testing a flow
  • Editing a flow

Creating Automated Cloud Flows

  • Creating a flow from scratch
  • Adding actions
  • Using conditions
  • Checking the run history
  • Changing the owner of the flow

Creating Scheduled Cloud Flows

  • Using Apply to each control
  • Writing expressions
  • Filtering with OData

Creating Instant Cloud Flows

  • Using variables
  • Sending approval requests
  • Renaming steps

Discussion and Question Time

  • Recap of topics covered
  • Discussion and question time