Delegates should have some exposure to a Windows operating system and Microsoft Office 365
The intended audience for this course would be those who have been using Office 365 for some time and are now looking at optimising their existing business processes and designing new ones.
Module 1: An Introduction to Microsoft Power Automate
Let’s get started with an introduction to Microsoft Power Automate. Historically, automating business processes typically landed in the lap of a developer in the business, who has a good understanding of coding and the systems that they were connecting. However, more and more systems deployed to businesses are encouraging a bigger focus on end user design and management. With this culture change, end users are looking to further improve their business solutions. Power Automate brings workflow design to all audiences. It offers the building blocks for lightweight or business-critical processes. In this module, we cover an overview of the product and its application to Office 365 and third-party services.
Topics covered:
- What is Microsoft Power Automate?
- The benefits of automation
- How to get to Power Automate
Module 2: Getting started with Power Automate
We begin our discovery of Microsoft Power Automate by building our first business process. We will discuss how to use templates to get started with Power Automate or how to use a blank template to start with no defined actions. Once in the product, we will give you a tour of the editor, workflow management page and the home screen to help you navigate around the product. Next, we will start to add, edit and remove actions from our workflow template in order to customise the Power Automate for a specific business need. Once ready we will publish and trigger the workflow to test that it works as expected. We will finish this module by discussing how to turn a Power Automate on or off as well as deleting a Power Automate.
Topics covered:
- Using Power Automate templates
- Navigating in Power Automate
- Editing a Power Automate
- Publish and trigger a Power Automate
- Turn off or delete a Power Automate
Module 3: Power Automate logic
Decision making during a business process is often a bottleneck. Waiting for decisions or information to steer the workflow towards its goal is dependent on how long the involved party spends on the task. This could be mitigated if the desired information is found declared elsewhere for example, as a document property or a form entry to name a few examples. Logic in a workflow allows existing information to push the workflow down multiple paths. This often speeds up workflow duration and minimizes human input. In this module, we will look at the core logic found in Power Automate and a practical application of each option.
Topics covered:
- Adding conditions
- Designing switches
- Using apply to each
- Configuring do until logic
- Adding a scope
Module 4: Integration
Businesses will often user a selection of productivity tools and services beyond Office 365. Marketing teams may use Facebook and Twitter whereas a sales team may use Salesforce to manage their customers. Power Automate provides connectors for popular services allowing your processes to extend beyond Office 365 to other web services. Connections can even be made to on-premises servers, allowing your business systems house at the office to take part in your processes.
Topics covered:
- Standard and premium connectors
- Connecting to web services
- Using Power Automate with on-premises data
Module 5: The mobile app
Flow has a corresponding mobile app that can be used to leverage many features of Power Automate. Firstly, it offers users the capability to build new Power Automates, directly from their phone or tablet. Secondly, it can be used to manage existing Power Automates including editing, viewing history, saving a copy, disabling and deleting Power Automates. You can access any approvals that have been sent to you by Power Automate and approve or reject decisions. The app also supports the push notifications that can be sent to your phone or tablet from a Power Automate. Additionally, you can even create buttons that appear in the app which allow you to trigger Power Automates. This valuable app will be detailed in this module.
Topics covered:
- Downloading the mobile app
- Signing in and account management
- Building and managing Power Automates
- Creating buttons
- Feeds and approvals
Module 6: Administration and maintenance
In our last module for Microsoft Power Automate, we will be taking a look at how a business can manage their Power Automates once they have a good uptake of the product. We will begin by discussing managing individual Power Automates. This could be using history to discover the source of any issues and implement error handling as well as using the analytics to discover usage trends. We will discover how to share a Power Automate which is ideal for sharing the maintenance of a Power Automate with another colleague and how to import and export Power Automates. Finally, we will discuss how Office 365 administrators can shape the Power Automate experience with high-level settings that help ensure data segregation and security.
Topics covered:
- Maintaining a Power Automate
- View history and analytics
- Sharing a Power Automate
- Export and import Power Automates
- Office 365 administration for Power Automate
- Environments
- Data policies
- Data integration
The course runs from 9:30am through to 4:30pm.
You will learn in a relaxed environment. A specialist tutor will guide and encourage you through all the learning necessary to develop your skills and questions are always welcome.
Included with your course
We provide the following with online and training centre delivered courses.
- Course notes
- Certificate of attendance
- eBook
Online Delivery
A link to the online training platform will be sent 1 week before the course.
- See Virtual / Remote training information for more details
- Contact us if you'd like to test the platform before the morning of the course
- You can be located anywhere in the world with an internet connection and your computer