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Introduction to SharePoint Flows

SharePoint Flows from Scratch coverPower Automate is Microsoft's new tool for creating workflows. Such workflows, or just flows, empower users by automating time consuming processes which requires sending/receiving notifications, collecting data and saving them among various platforms.

Learn more from the book

The kalmstrom.com Tips series SharePoint Flows was created in 2018 for the first edition of our book SharePoint Flows from Scratch, available at Amazon as Kindle e-book and paperback. The demos are not up to date, but we hope that you still will find them useful. For the latest Power Automate interface and features we recommend the book.

SharePoint Flows from Scratch was first published in January 2019, and edition 3 was published in March 2022. The book is intended for SharePoint Online administrators who know the basics about SharePoint and want to learn how to use Power Automate with SharePoint to automate common business processes.

You are of course welcome to browse among these free Tips articles and watch the demos even if you don't buy the book, but we recommend you to get the book also. It gives much more information about Power Automate and detailed step by step instructions with plenty of images.

Use among multiple cloud services SharePoint icon

Flows are intended to replace SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013 workflows. While workflows are limited to sites, flows can be used extensively with various cloud based services. Here we will focus on flows where SharePoint play an important part.

Flow account instead of user account

Each Power Automate user can create a set of flows that are stored in connection to that Microsoft or Office 365 account. Therefore, any organization that decides to automate things with flows should either make sure that all business flows are shared, or create a special user account for flows, to handle the case if a user quits and to manage potential costs in cases of high volume flows.


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