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Testing and running flows in Power Automate

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Testing and running flows in Power Automate

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- [Instructor] Our flow is created. Now it's time for us to test it, and that's what we're going to do. This is our... When an event is created in Outlook, create that event in our Google Calendar. So we're going to come up here to the upper right and we see the big Test button. And when we click there, we see the Test Flow panel. Now, there are two options, manually or automatically, but automatically is grayed out, and below it, it says, "There are no runs for this flow." That's because we have not tested this flow before. Oftentimes, you have to test the flow several times before you get it right. In our example here, we would create events. Rather than continually creating new events, you can retest the flow with the same event, but we still have to do one manually for the first time. So we're going to click Manually, and we're going to come down to the bottom and click the Test button. Now, you see that little circle spinning around? That lets us know it's waiting for us to go…

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