We highlight our favorite features that have been added to Power Automate in recent months.
Comment Actions
It's something most of us overlook, especially when we had complex flows. Thus, we can make our flows easier to maintain.
This is doable by clicking on the three dots of any action and clicking on the option “Add a comment”.
Once this is done, the comment will be displayed as follows in the action or condition.
Copy and paste actions
It enables us to develop in a faster and more comfortable way. At the same time to copy actions, we can copy conditions so that, when pasting, let's copy the actions that the copied condition contains.
To copy and paste actions, click on the three dots and on the option “Copy to my clipboard”. Done this we have already copied it.
To paste the copied action we access the tab “My clipboard” and click on the previously copied action. In this tab, all actions that have been copied appear temporarily. By clicking on one of them, the copied action will be added.
As an interesting point in this chapter, it can be seen that the copied actions are also temporarily available in other flows, from the same tenant.
Static results
This is one of the most prominent favorite features, since it makes it possible to establish static data in the actions to develop and debug the flow more quickly. For this, click on the three action points and “Static result”.
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Subsequently, the following panel appears that allows you to add a status and code to the result of the action. To end, Click the button “Clever”.
Once this is done, you can see a test tube appear in the flow action warning us that the action is using static data.
Create an approval flow with attachments
Now, while sending approvals, we can attach documents for approval.
To do this, we add an action with the following name “Start and wait for an approval”. In the countryside “Approval type” we select the option “Pass / To refuse – First to reply”, we provide a file name and attach the content of a file.
Once the flow is completed and executed. The user who must approve the document will receive an email like the following. In the, while viewing the file from Outlook itself, user can both approve and disapprove the flow, from the same screen.
GPS location trigger
Taking advantage of the GPS signal of mobile devices, GPS location trigger is activated. To create such a flow, just add a trigger “Location”, as shown in the next screenshot.
The following link contains a tutorial post that explains in detail the use of this trigger: vaya a MICROSOFT FLOW IN VIRTUAL CAMP ABR’19 (PART 1)
How to change the language, the location or activate experimental functions
While we are on the Power Automate page within Office 365, we click on the gear and click on the link “View all Power Automate configurations”.
Once this is done, The following dialog box will appear in which we can configure our Power Automate.
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