Read our blogs, tips and tutorials
Try our exercises or test your skills
Watch our tutorial videos or shorts
Take a self-paced course
Read our recent newsletters
License our courseware
Book expert consultancy
Buy our publications
Get help in using our site
547 attributed reviews in the last 3 years
Refreshingly small course sizes
Outstandingly good courseware
Whizzy online classrooms
Wise Owl trainers only (no freelancers)
Almost no cancellations
We have genuine integrity
We invoice after training
Review 30+ years of Wise Owl
View our top 100 clients
Search our website
We also send out useful tips in a monthly email newsletter ...
The 5 best things about Power Automate Part four of a six-part series of blogs |
---|
A separate blog lists the 5 worst things about Power Automate; this more positive blog lists its 5 best features! |
Given that most flows run as a consequence of triggers, how can you test them? Microsoft have developed a really elegant solution to this.
For example, here's a basic flow to email me whenever someone adds a file to the OneDrive root folder:
The flow probably works; but how can I test it?
If you try testing it, you get this:
You can't run the flow until it's run once.
So I chose to test the flow manually, and added a file to OneDrive:
The new workbook I've just added.
My flow now runs in Power Automate:
I can click on each action to see its output if I want.
But the clever thing is that from now on I can choose to run the flow by simulating the trigger:
I could choose this option, for example, to run the flow the last time it succeeded, with the same starting conditions (Power Automate will run the flow exactly as if I were adding a file to OneDrive with the same name as before).
It's hard to see how Microsoft could have done this better: an ingenious solution!
Parts of this blog |
---|
Some other pages relevant to the above blogs include:
Kingsmoor House
Railway Street
GLOSSOP
SK13 2AA
Landmark Offices
99 Bishopsgate
LONDON
EC2M 3XD
Holiday Inn
25 Aytoun Street
MANCHESTER
M1 3AE
© Wise Owl Business Solutions Ltd 2024. All Rights Reserved.