Exercise - Send a copy
In this exercise, you'll create a cloud flow, send a copy of the cloud flow to yourself, and then test the cloud flow.
Important
Use a test environment for the exercise.
Task 1: Create a cloud flow
In this task, you'll create a cloud flow that will send a daily weather notification for a certain city.
Go to Power Automate and make sure that you're in the correct environment.
Select My flows > Scheduled cloud flow.
Enter Daily weather for Flow name. For Repeat every, select 1 Day and then select Create.
Select + New step.
Search for weather and then select Get forecast for today (MSN Weather).
Enter Denver or any city that you want for Location, select Imperial for Units, and then select + New step.
Search for send email and then select Send me an email notification.
Enter Today's weather for Subject, select the Body, and then select Day Summary from the Dynamic content pane.
Type with High in the Body field and then select Temperature High from the Dynamic content pane.
Type and Low in the Body field and then select Temperature Low from the Dynamic content pane.
The Send me an email notification step should now resemble the following image. Select Save and then wait for the flow to be saved.
Select the back button.
Select Run.
Select Run flow.
Select Done.
The flow run should succeed.
Select the App launcher, right-click Outlook, and then select Open in new tab.
You should receive the email notification that was sent by the flow. Select to open the email.
The email should resemble the following image.
Go to the flow details browser tab.
Don't navigate away from this page.
Task 2: Send a copy
In this task, you'll send a copy of the cloud flow that you created to yourself. You might send the copy to another user if you have more than one user in your tenant.
Select Send a copy.
Enter Cloud flow that sends a weather email notification in the Description field, select your username and any other user that you want to send the copy to, and then select Send.
Go to the Outlook browser tab.
You should receive an email from Power Automate. Select Create My Flow.
Power Automate should launch and display the flow template. Select Continue to flow creation.
Power Automate should display the connectors that the flow uses. Select Create flow.
Select Run.
Select Run flow.
Select Done.
The flow should succeed, and you should receive the weather email notification.
Select My flows.
The original flow that you created should display, and the flow copy that you sent to yourself should also display, assuming that you sent the copy to yourself.
