Introducing flows
We have mentioned that flows are the automation of a manual business process. More specifically, Power Automate lets you design a workflow comprising a sequence of tasks and conditions. These tasks can be achieved using connectors.
There are over 500 connectors available at the time of writing this chapter. New connectors are listed here as they are added: https://packt.link/connectors.
To help keep track of all the connectors being used for tasks and conditions, Power Automate provides a rich user interface that allows you to build a process map. The process map is a tool that shows the inputs, actions, and outputs of a process in a graphical format, step by step:
Figure 8.1: Sequential actions in Power Automate
We can see that after the flow is triggered, it works through a series of steps that are laid out one after the other. With the process map, we can clearly see what conditions lead to what tasks, and which connectors are...
