Create a cloud flow in Power Automate
Create a cloud flow that performs one or more tasks automatically after it's triggered by an event. For example, create a cloud flow that notifies you by email when someone sends a tweet that contains a keyword you specify. In this example, sending a tweet is the event, and sending mail is the action.
Prerequisites
- An account on Power Automate
- A Twitter account
- Office 365 credentials
Note
Power Automate uses either the classic cloud flows designer or the cloud flows designer with Copilot. To identify which designer you’re using, go to the Note section in Understand the cloud flows designer with copilot capabilities.
Using Copilot, you can use natural language to create a flow.
Simply ask Copilot to create your flow by typing the following prompt:
when a new tweet is posted, send an email to eug@contoso.com with Twitter username
Copilot suggests a flow based on your prompt:
Review and then provide the necessary connections to Twitter and Outlook.
Select Next and your flow appears on the designer.
Save the flow and it's ready to use.
Your flow will trigger when any new tweets that mention the key phrase Contoso Company are posted. It will also send an email to the specified email address in the Send an email action.
Test your flow
Send a tweet with the keyword that you indicated, or wait for someone else to post such a tweet.
Within a minute after the tweet is posted, an email message notifies you of the new tweet.
Tip
Use the Send email (V2) action to format email in which you customize the font, use bold, italic or underline, customize the color and highlight, and create lists or links, and more.
Manage a cloud flow
You can have up to 600 flows in your account. If you already have 600 flows, delete one before you create another flow.
Sign in to Power Automate.
In the navigation bar on the left, select My flows.
In the list of flows, do any of the following:
To pause a cloud flow, set its toggle to Off.
To resume a cloud flow, set its toggle to On.
To edit a cloud flow, select the pencil icon that corresponds to the flow you want to edit.
To delete a cloud flow, select the ... icon, select Delete, and then select Delete on the message box that appears.
To view the run history of a cloud flow, select the flow from the My flows page, and then view the history under the 28 day run history section of the page that opens.
Select a cloud flow run from the list of runs to see the inputs and outputs of each step.
Related information
- Add steps, such as different ways to be notified, to your flow.
- Run tasks on a schedule, when you want an action to occur daily, on a certain date, or after a certain number of minutes.
- Add a cloud flow to an app
- Get started with team flows and invite others to collaborate with you to design flows.
- Training: Get started with Power Automate (module)
- Training: Enhance communication using Power Automate and the Office 365 Users Connector (module)