From the course: Microsoft Teams: Automating with Bots, Connectors, and Flows

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How does a flow work?

How does a flow work?

From the course: Microsoft Teams: Automating with Bots, Connectors, and Flows

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How does a flow work?

- [Instructor] Depending on your Microsoft 365 subscription, it may include an app called Power Automate. With this app, you can set up a workflow to automate a task or a process. In Power Automate, workflows are referred to as flows. There are many different types of flows, including automated, instant, scheduled, and so on. This chapter focuses on creating automated flows. There are two essential components needed to set up a flow. The first component is a trigger. This is what needs to happen to start the flow. The second essential component is the action. This is what will be performed. Here's an example of how a flow can help automate your work. Every day, Chong manually opens Microsoft Forms to check a form for new results. These are registrations for an upcoming IoT conference. Sometimes he forgets to do this. Now that he knows he can automate this process, and he can notify everyone working on this conference with…

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