Power Automate

Power automate is a digital automation platform with digital process automation and robotic process automation capabilities. It provides an no code solution for all the issues. Power automate is available both in cloud and desktop version.

Power automate in desktop allows to automate complex scenarios using scripts in JavaScript, Python and PowerShell. It can act as an AI tool also, unique AI builder services optimizes business operations.

Microsoft Power platform cloud can be avail as free version with a developer Office 365 trial account. 

 There are 3 types of Power automate / flow.

1. Scheduled flow

2. Trigger flow (Automatic flow i.e. Data is changed or created)

3. Instant flow or button flow(Manual flow)

Scheduled flow:

It is triggered based on time constraint. we can trigger a flow for every Monday 9am of every week or every month. 

Trigger flow:

Trigger is an event that starts the flow. For example, if you want to receive a notification in teams every time when you receive a mail. The below screenshot shows the list of trigger the office 365 outlook connector provides.

Instant flow:

Also called as Manual flow. It starts only with click of a button. You have to manually trigger the flow to start the operation.