Microsoft Power Automate: Business Process Flows

1h 25mIntermediate2021-03-22

Authors

Phil Gold

Senior-Level Learning and Development Professional

Course details

Business process flows are a great way to boost efficiency and save time for your organization. Learning how to create automated and directed flows results in more uniform and efficient workflows throughout the organization for both in-office and remote workforces. In this course, Phil Gold walks through the process of creating business process flows with ever-increasing levels of complexity and shows examples of how to leverage this advanced feature of Power Automate for your organization.

Skills covered

Power AutomateBusiness IntelligenceData ScienceBusiness Analysis and StrategyMicrosoftDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Automating for efficiency
02 - Who is this course for

1. Foundations and Principles

03 - What is a business process flow
04 - Start with a defined process
05 - Working with the Dataverse
06 - Working with Dataverse tables
07 - Model-driven apps

2. Understanding BPFs

08 - The two types of BPFs
09 - Creating a BPF
10 - The Flow Designer screen
11 - Running a BPF

3. Creating an Immersive BPF

12 - Describing the problem
13 - Starting the BPF and creating the table (entity)
14 - Creating the table columns (entity fields)
15 - Adding the stages to the BPF
16 - Adding the process steps
17 - Testing and debugging
18 - Viewing your data

4. Adding Complexity

19 - Understanding branching
20 - Creating additional logical columns for the BPF
21 - Creating the conditional stage
22 - Connecting results stages
23 - Testing the branching logic

5. Adding Functionality

24 - Adding instant flows
25 - Adding choice columns
26 - Customizing decimal numbers
27 - Adding currency types

Conclusion

28 - Where to go from here