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Flow types in Power Automate

Flow types in Power Automate

- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to talk about the different types of flows that you can create with Power Automate. So we're going to go to our create page, and right at the very top, you'll see six cards and six different types of flows that you can create. First we have the automated cloud flow, and you'll see it says, triggered by a designated event. Our flows are basically two parts, trigger and action. Something that triggers the flow, and then the action, what it's going to do. This is done automatically. For example, if an email comes in to our inbox, the action will be, do whatever, move it to a folder, respond to it, whatever. The next one is an instant cloud flow. This is triggered manually as needed. So this is something that you do manually to kick the flow off. And one of the lessons that we're going to look at in this course is creating an instant cloud flow, which you can also refer to sometimes as a button flow, where you're going to create a flow where we…

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