Imagine you're working in a large company and part of your job is to send reports to other departments about employee absence from work in the past month. Basically, it is a repetitive and boring manual task that repeats every month and takes a lot of your time. However, you can easily automate it with SharePoint and Power Automate!
Automize Monthly Report Creation with Power Automate
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Automize Monthly Report Creation with Power Automate
Instructor: Dora Hrvoj
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Beginner level
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90 minutes
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Hands-on learning
What you'll learn
Create a SharePoint site and list
Create a Power Automate flow that exports data from the SharePoint list to an Excel table.
Modify the flow to send the report by email.
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Learn step-by-step
In a video that plays in a split-screen with your work area, your instructor will walk you through these steps:
Create a SharePoint Site (5 min)
Create a SharePoint List (7 min)
Create a flow that exports data from the SharePoint list (10 min)
Modify the flow to send the report by email (4 min)
Test the flow and check the results of each action (5 min)
Recommended experience
At least 1 year of business experience and being familiar with Excel formulas.
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