Microsoft Flow

What is Microsoft Flow?

Microsoft Flow is an online workflow service that automates events (known as workflows) across the most common apps and services

Flow can integrate SharePoint, Outlook, Dynamic365, one drive, Salesforce, Azure Resource manager

What can you do with Microsoft Flow?

You can use Microsoft Flow to automate workflows between your favorite applications and services, sync files, get notifications, collect data, and much more.

ou can also use Microsoft Flow to copy files.

Where can I create and administer a flow?

You can create a flow and perform administrative tasks in a browser or, if you download the Microsoft Flow mobile app, on your phone.

Here are some of the tasks you can perform:

·         Turn flows on or off from wherever you are.

·         See when a flow has failed.

·         Review detailed run history reports.

·         View and filter runs by notification type.

Important concepts in Microsoft Flow

Keep these concepts in mind when building flows:

·         Every flow has two main parts: a trigger, and one or more actions.

·         You can think of the trigger as the starting action for the flow. The trigger can be something like a new email arriving in your inbox or a new item being added to a SharePoint list.

·         Actions are what you want to happen when a trigger is invoked. For example, the new email trigger will start the action of creating a new file on OneDrive for Business. Other examples of actions include sending an email, posting a tweet, and starting an approval.

How button flows are started

Buttons are flows that are started through a manual action. For example, you can create a button to send a Working from home today email to your manager. If you live far from your workplace, you can then use this button on days when the traffic is a mess!

·         Select Buttons to use some of these flows.

·         Select Browse to check out templates for more button flows that you can add to your collection.

To show you how you can use buttons, we'll use the Send myself a reminder in 10 minutes button template.

1.    Select Buttons, and then Browse.

2.    Select the Send myself a reminder in 10 minutes button flow.

3.    Select Use this template.

4.    Select Create, and then select Done.

The flow is saved.

5.    Select Buttons to see the new flow.

6.    Select the flow. In 10 minutes, you'll get a reminder.

It's simple to add more buttons to your collection.

Modify or delete a flow

If you want to change or delete one of your flows, it's easy.

1.    Select Flows.

2.    Select one of your flows.

3.    Select one of the options:

·         To enable or disable the flow, turn the Enable flow option on or off.

·         To change the flow, select Edit flow.

·         To get an idea of the successful and unsuccessful runs of the flow, select Run history to view the history of the flow.

·         To delete a flow, select Delete flow.