Learn Microsoft Power Apps - Second Edition

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Using Power Automate with Power Apps

Power Apps allows us to develop a huge amount of logic directly within an app, but this logic is limited to frontend processing rather than heavier processing. In the past, this would have been done with server-side code, but in Power Apps, we can offload this type of processing to Microsoft Power Automate, the Microsoft 365-based automation platform.

Microsoft Power Automate was previously known as Microsoft Flow and was changed in November 2019. While the application has changed names, the individual workflows are still known as flows. Therefore, when we talk about the service, we refer to Power Automate, whereas when we discuss individual processes, we will refer to a cloud flow.

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