Microsoft Power Automate (Flow) Crash Course

Learn how to create workflows using Microsoft Power Automate from ground zero

4.57 (8116 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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Other
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27,650
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8 hours
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Nov 2023
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$84.99
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What you will learn

Creating Workflows using Microsoft Power Automate Flow

Connecting different solutions to SharePoint Online

Calling Flows from external sources

Creating workflow triggers and actions with Flow

Controlling flow using conditions

Querying records using OData in Microsoft Flow

Sending Office Forms data to Microsoft Flow

Description

Power Automate (formerly known as Microsoft Flow) is the new generation of Microsoft automation tools on Microsoft cloud. With this technology Microsoft is trying to make automation more accessible to the people who actually understand and live with the business process than techies to live and breath technology and quite often not so familiar with the business process.

This course is designed form beginners with no experience with Power Automate and upon completion of this course you will be able to create workflows using Power Automate that can solve real life automation challenges. Although the course is designed for beginners, the content is suitable for people with strong technical background that are willing to start with Microsoft Power Automate.


The course focuses on field experience and using the technology in day-to-day basis rather than just demos. Clear explanation is given for every step of the work assuring you well understand the work you do and can transfer the knowledge to your day-to-day job. Clear explanation of Microsoft Power platform guarantees your understanding of all elements you need to learn and all the licensing requirements are clarified right in the beginning of the course.


The course includes lectures, quiz and a final project that puts all the course knowledge together for a real life example of using Power Automate.

Content

Introduction, prerequisites and course road map

Introduction to Power Automate
Who can benefit from this course?
What is Power Automate?
Hello World using Power Automate
Licenses and tools you need for this course
Warm-up with Power Automate
Course Road Map

Working with Power Automate Trigger

Understanding different types of Power Automate triggers
Manually firing a Power Automate Flow
Instant Power Automate triggers that we don't cover in this course
Firing Power Automate Flow on schedule
Power automate automated triggers
Checking an e-mail arrival in a mailbox using Automated trigger
What is next?

Working with Power Automate actions

Create your first Flow that interacts with SharePoint online
Make real use of a very simple Power Automate Flow
Retrieving all items in a SharePoint list
Why do we need OData in Power Automate?
Learning OData syntax
OData Limitations and Sort
Get Items vs Get Item - Finding list item by ID
Deleting and Updating list items in Power Automate
Test your knowledge

Working with Power Automate Data types and Variables

Why do we need variables?
Let's create our first variables
Set vs Increment/Decrement vs Append
Append to an array
Working with Object variables
Test your knowledge

Working with Flow Control Actions

Working with conditions
Working with Flow Switch
Working with "Apply to Each"
Working with "Do Until" loop
Scope and Error Handling - Problem definition
Error handling - Basic features
Error handling - Solving the problem
Working with approval requests
Branching the flow for different simultaneous approval requests
Test your knowledge

Power Automate Security

Introduction to Power Automate Security
Adding co-owners to the Power Automate Flow
Working with Run-only users
Test your knowledge

Working with Excel files

Introduction to Power Automate and Excel
Refresh your Excel knowledge
Calling Flow from Microsoft Excel
Insert/Delete/Update Excel content from Power Automate Flow
Reading table rows in Excel
Creating a table inside Microsoft Excel and reading the content
Test your knowledge

Working with Office Forms

Introduction to Office Forms
Capturing Office Forms submitted form using Power Automate

Real life Flow scenarios and future steps

Planning our future steps
Project definition
Design and initial setup
Solution to final project - 1
Solution to final project - 2

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Reviews

Muhammed
November 9, 2023
Yes, it helped me to understand the Power Automate flow better. I personally feel there must be a way to format the record in table while sending the information over email. I was expecting to see how the SharePoint list item creation or update trigger works.
Hasmukh
October 31, 2023
All the examples are SharePoint site, would be more useful if mix and match real world scenarios on One Drive or Google Drive
Valeriia
October 30, 2023
The basics is covered. I like, that this course is short enough and basic instruments are discussed (Excel, Sharepoint etc.) For me, the tests should be more complex and longer, because 3 questions are not enough to check the knowledge. Final project is okay, but I would love more flows without creating additional Sharepoint Sites, especially when student uses work account:) The tutor explains the subject very well, I enjoyed it:)
Kirankumar
October 19, 2023
Power Automate learning is just made so easy.. lucid Explanation, amazing. have enrolled for all other courses created by Ali! thank you so Much Ali
Sylwia
October 4, 2023
Thank you for this Course! Sometimes the pace was quite challenging, but the knowledge you conveyed was outstanding :)
Andrina
October 1, 2023
This class was amazing! Alireza, you are an awesome instructor! I finished the class last night and can't wait to get to the office to automate the daylights out of stuff that has really needed that sort of process. -- Thanks for putting together such great content, walking us through things step by step, and making the course easy to understand and follow. -- I look forward to taking your other courses in the future. -- Best regards!
Doug
September 22, 2023
Not too overwhelming and a good combination of reviewing some Microsoft basics to fill in gaps (Excel, SharePoint) while touching on some more advanced features (expressions, JSON). As my first taste in MS Flows, I appreciated the repetition of tasks throughout the course to drill in some basics and help me gain comfort. There is a successive expressions course available.
Greg
September 21, 2023
This course is enjoyable, easy to follow, and I'm learning a lot even after writing manual Power Automate flows for over a year.
Ben
September 13, 2023
The introduction of this course presents clearly where Power Automate fits in the broader ecosystem and shows how this will meet my needs. I've really enjoyed learning this content. The instruction has been clear and I'm looking forward to applying it to some of my regular work tasks.
Claudio
September 8, 2023
it was just great!!! Exactly what i was looking for and really a good teacher with extremely clear and applicable examples.
Dean
September 3, 2023
The course was generally good. I had always wanted to learn Power Automate and this is indeed a good start. Thank you @alirezaaliabadi
Bartomiej
August 25, 2023
Very well designed course. Not covering all the details but giving a user ability to work out suitable solution to majority pf problems
Irene
July 28, 2023
There was a lot of material covered and the pace was set right. I think this was a good beginner course.
Lindsay
January 6, 2023
Excellent course! I have been using Power Automate by copying YouTube videos, and it was so helpful to finally learn what the actions actually mean that I have been creating! Very well laid out and easy to follow.
Andrew
January 3, 2023
This course has helped me more than any other to understand how Power Automate works! I've used the product for more than two years for simple workflow automation, however, I have had to frequently google formulas whenever I've encountered something beyond the scope of clicky-clicky draggy droppy. Despite having taken several other Udemy courses, this was the first one to emphasize how PA works and how knowing a small amount of JSON unlocks so much of PA's power. The instructor (Ali) is clear, concise, and to the point. He has a good sense of humor which ties the entire course together. Going through the final project was worth the entrance fee for sure. I wasn't exactly sure about the scoping requirement, but after playing the first minute or so of Ali's solution, I was able to pause the video and complete the project myself. In summary, if you are wanting to learn Power Automate, take this course! Towards the end of the course, I went ahead and purchased all of Ali's other PA courses. That's how much I liked the class. (Bonus tip: watch the very last video before doing this.) Highly recommended.

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