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Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate

You're reading from   Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate Design and scale AI-powered cloud and desktop workflows using low-code automation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2025
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781836649632
Length 544 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1: The Basics
2. Introducing Microsoft Power Automate FREE CHAPTER 3. Getting Started with Power Automate 4. Working with Email 5. Copying Files 6. Creating Button Flows 7. Generating Push Notifications 8. Working with Shared Flows 9. Part 2: Advanced Operations and Flows
10. Working with Conditions 11. Understanding Expressions and Functions 12. Getting Started with Approvals 13. Working with Multiple Approvals 14. Posting Approvals to Teams 15. Using Databases 16. Working with Microsoft Forms 17. Posting to Slack 18. Accepting User Input 19. Automating Entra ID 20. Part 3: Robotic Process Automation, AI Models, Copilot, and Beyond
21. Introducing Robotic Process Automation 22. Contributing to an Access Database with RPA 23. Automating Web Pages with RPA 24. Introducing AI Models and Generative AI 25. Creating a Sentiment Analysis Flow 26. Using Copilot to Create and Manage Flows 27. Using Generative AI to Summarize Documents 28. Part 4: Administration
29. Exporting, Importing, and Distributing Flows 30. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Flows 31. Governance in the Power Platform 32. Unlock Your Exclusive Benefits 33. Other Books You May Enjoy
34. Index

Exploring Microsoft Copilot for Power Platform

In addition to using generative AI to process content for flow, you can also use the Microsoft Copilot generative AI platform to help accelerate the development of automation.

Instead of manually configuring every condition, action, and connector, users can now describe a business process in natural language, and Copilot intelligently generates a working flow. For example, you can type When a new email arrives from a client in the invoices shared mailbox, save the attachments to the Invoices SharePoint site and send a message to the accounts payable group on Teams, and Power Automate will build that automation step by step.

Figure 21.1 – Creating a flow through Copilot’s Describe it to design it feature

Figure 21.1 – Creating a flow through Copilot’s Describe it to design it feature

After a few moments, Copilot will return a suggestion, as shown in Figure 21.2:

Figure 21.2 – Reviewing the AI-suggested output

Figure 21.2 – Reviewing the AI-suggested output

The process might generate a few different examples. If...

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