Using Power Automate with PowerApps

PowerApps 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 PowerApps, we can offload this type of processing to Microsoft Power Automate, the Office 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 application, we refer to Power Automate, whereas when we discuss individual processes, we will refer to a Flow.

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