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.
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.
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.
