Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate : Use business process automation to achieve digital transformation with minimal code, 2/e (Paperback)

Make your organization more productive and simplify your workflow by using Microsoft Power Automate for business process automation

Key Features

- Learn the latest in Power Automate with updated user interface visuals and new technology included
- Apply practical knowledge like managing user inputs, documents, approvals, and database storage
- Create flows that integrate with services both inside and outside the Microsoft 365 ecosystem

Book Description

MS Power Automate is a workflow automation tool built into MS 365 to help businesses automate repetitive tasks or trigger business processes without user intervention. It is a low-code tool that is part of the Microsoft applications framework, the Power Platform.

If you are new to Power Automate, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction and a smooth transition from beginner to advanced topics to help you get up to speed with business process automation. Complete with hands-on tutorials and projects, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to configure automation workflows for business processes between hundreds of applications, using examples within Microsoft and including third-party apps like Dropbox and Twitter. Once you understand how to use connectors, triggers, and actions to automate business processes, you'll learn how to manage user input, documents, and approvals, as well as interact with databases. This edition also introduces new Power Automate features such as using robotic process automation (RPA) to automate legacy applications, interacting with the Microsoft Graph API, and working with artificial intelligence models to do sentiment analysis.

By the end of this digital transformation book, you'll have mastered the basics of using Power Automate to replace repetitive tasks with automation technology.

What you will learn

- Learn the basic building blocks of Power Automate capabilities
- Explore connectors in Power Automate to automate email workflows
- Discover how to make a flow for copying files between cloud services
- Configure Power Automate Desktop flows for your business needs
- Build on examples to create complex database and approval flows
- Connect common business applications like Outlook, Forms, and Teams
- Learn the introductory concepts for robotic process automation
- Discover how to use AI sentiment analysis

Who this book is for

This book is excellent for information workers and Power users who are looking to automate repetitive tasks for their organizations or for projects they are undertaking. To make the most of this book you should have some basic exposure to the MS 365 platform.

提升組織生產力並簡化工作流程，使用Microsoft Power Automate進行業務流程自動化。

主要功能：
- 透過更新的使用者介面視覺效果和新技術，學習最新的Power Automate。
- 應用實用知識，如管理使用者輸入、文件、審批和資料庫儲存。
- 建立與Microsoft 365生態系統內外的服務整合的流程。

書籍描述：
MS Power Automate是內建於MS 365的工作流程自動化工具，可幫助企業自動化重複性任務或觸發業務流程，無需使用者介入。它是Microsoft應用程式框架Power Platform的一部分，是一個低代碼工具。

如果您對Power Automate還不熟悉，本書將全面介紹並平滑過渡，從初學者到高級主題，幫助您快速掌握業務流程自動化。本書提供了實用的教學和專案，以易於理解的指南方式，向您展示如何配置數百個應用程式之間的業務流程自動化工作流程，包括Microsoft內部和第三方應用程式，如Dropbox和Twitter。一旦您了解如何使用連接器、觸發器和操作來自動化業務流程，您將學習如何管理使用者輸入、文件和審批，以及與資料庫互動。本版本還介紹了新的Power Automate功能，例如使用機器人流程自動化（RPA）自動化傳統應用程式、與Microsoft Graph API互動以及使用人工智慧模型進行情感分析。

通過閱讀本書，您將掌握使用Power Automate將重複性任務替換為自動化技術的基礎知識。

學到的內容：
- 學習Power Automate功能的基本構建塊。
- 探索Power Automate中的連接器，以自動化電子郵件工作流程。
- 發現如何建立在雲服務之間複製文件的流程。
- 根據業務需求配置Power Automate Desktop流程。
- 基於示例創建複雜的資料庫和審批流程。
- 連接常見的業務應用程式，如Outlook、Forms和Teams。
- 學習機器人流程自動化的入門概念。
- 發現如何使用人工智慧情感分析。

適合閱讀對象：
本書適合資訊工作者和Power使用者，他們希望為組織或正在進行的專案自動化重複性任務。為了充分利用本書，您應該對MS 365平台有一些基本了解。

Aaron Guilmette, a Microsoft Teams technical specialist at Microsoft, provides guidance and assistance to customers adopting the Microsoft 365 platform. He primarily focuses on collaborative technologies, including Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Teams. He also works with identity and scripting solutions.

He has been involved with technology since 1998 and has provided consulting services for customers in the commercial, educational, and government sectors internationally. Aaron has also worked on technical certification exams and instructional design for Microsoft and other organizations.

Aaron Guilmette是微軟的Microsoft Teams技術專家，為採用Microsoft 365平台的客戶提供指導和協助。他主要專注於協作技術，包括Microsoft SharePoint Online、Microsoft Exchange和Microsoft Teams。他還涉及身份和腳本解決方案的工作。

自1998年以來，他一直從事技術工作，並為商業、教育和政府部門的客戶提供諮詢服務。Aaron還參與了微軟和其他組織的技術認證考試和教學設計工作。

1. Introducing Microsoft Power Automate
2. Getting Started with Power Automate
3. Working with Email
4. Copying files
5. Creating Button Flows
6. Generating Push Notifications
7. Working with Shared Flows
8. Working with Conditions
9. Getting Started with Approvals
10. Working with Multiple Approvals
11. Posting Approvals to Teams
12. Using a Database
13. Working with Microsoft Forms
14. Accepting User Input
15. Automating Azure AD
16. Introducing Robotic Process Automation
17. Introducing AI Models
19. Exporting, Importing, and Distributing Flows
20. Monitoring and Troubleshooting Flows

1. 介紹 Microsoft Power Automate
2. 開始使用 Power Automate
3. 使用電子郵件
4. 複製檔案
5. 建立按鈕流程
6. 生成推送通知
7. 使用共享流程
8. 使用條件
9. 開始使用核准
10. 使用多個核准
11. 將核准發佈到 Teams
12. 使用資料庫
13. 使用 Microsoft Forms
14. 接受使用者輸入
15. 自動化 Azure AD
16. 介紹機器人流程自動化
17. 介紹 AI 模型
19. 匯出、匯入和分發流程
20. 監控和排除故障流程