Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate, Second edition - Second Edition

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Creating Button Flows

Up to this point, we’ve worked primarily with automated flows – that is, flows that happen based on Power Automate detecting, or being notified of, a change and then acting upon it. In this chapter, we’re going to shift gears to create a different type of flow – one that happens when you manually start it.

Since the original launch of Power Automate as Microsoft Flow, button flow has been known by a few other names, including manual flow, instant flow, and now instant cloud flow. While this terminology is largely interchangeable, the term button flow is typically used to indicate a flow that has been published to a mobile device that can be initiated by tapping a button in the Power Automate mobile app experience, while ...