What is the definition of Compose action with Microsoft Flow?

Hey, Flow Fans!

Do you have a folder in your Inbox that receives all of your automated emails from one of the important services that you regularly use? Well, I do too! I get to use an awesome tool to stay ahead of the game with Twitter because I manage the Microsoft Flow Twitter account! This tool sends me an email every time one of my scheduled Tweets goes live. I don't know if you follow the Flow Twitter page, but that's 5 or more Tweets daily that I am alerted about via automated emails! This is why they all get moved to their own folder automatically via an email rule in Outlook. See how I use Flow to stay alerted if one of those automated emails is trying to alert me that a Tweet hasn't posted!!

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Are you still trying to figure out what do with SharePoint Hub Sites and how to control the 100 hub site limit?  Flow can be your answer by incorporating an approval flow to the SharePoint administrator.  In continuing with the development of Flow integration to SharePoint Online according to the latest October release notes: Site owners will be prompted to create and run an approval process whenever they want to join a hub site in their tenant. Furthermore, for organizations that have turned off self-site creation, users can now request a site to be provisioned, which will initiate a request to SharePoint administrators before being provisioned.

In this article, I'll show you how I get my boss to approve groups of batched Tweets before I load them in our custom built automatic Batch Tweet Scheduler Machine to go live on our channel. This is a follow-up article from the how-to article that I wrote about the Batch Tweet Scheduler that uses Microsoft Flow and Google Sheets to Automate hours and hours worth of tedious work! Enjoy!

Keep your intranet news from going stale with a simple, shared mailbox and Flow!

Publishing an HTML or other file to Azure blob storage can enable anyone who has the link to that specific file to access it and download it, which is a great way to provide much easier non-secure access to information than sharing that file directly from a One Drive or via SharePoint Online (as even a link that does not require authentication sometimes requires that user to have a Microsoft Online account).

One of the most common desires for a workflow is the ability to create documentation from a form. There are endless business processes for this kind of workflow, and such a workflow can easily integrate as part of a larger business process.

Do you like the Network Days function in Excel? And do you need to create reminders to do a task but do not want to include weekend days - here is a trick to exclude them. You can re-create it with SharePoint Online and Flow.

Flow Connectors: SharePoint, O365 Outlook

What is the Network Days function?
The NETWORKDAYS function is a built-in function in Excel that is categorized as a Date/Time Function to not include weekends when calculating 2 given dates.

Use Case: When a SharePoint item gets created, I needed to add 3 days from the create date not including the weekends and email a reminder. The person field can be any type like assigned to, but in this case it is a writer that has to take action by the 3rd day after an item is added. This type of reminder system and exclusion of network days can work in many scenarios and here is one of them that worked for me.

It is possible to add a document library as a tab in Teams channels, and this post is going to show how you can sync (creation and deletion) such a document library with an external storage source (this use case is for DropBox) via Flow.

Do you ever just want a quick and efficient way to create a request workflow? There are several ways to create a request approval process with Flow and I am going to show you one of the ways that has worked for me.  This request process is specific for a vacation request approval flow but can easily be used for any type of request.  I will provide you with 5 easy steps for you to successfully create the approval process using a modern SharePoint Online List.  This Flow is highly extensible and can even include multi-step approval processes.  For more information about multi-step approval check out Jon Levesque’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ysuQUZ2wQ

Though you can externally share sites and documents in Office 365, sometimes, users need to send out documents to many external contacts, and would like an easier way to do this without having external users create a Microsoft account, without having to attach said document to an email.

The potential of SharePoint is abundant and now with Flow you can do even more. However, with more power comes more responsibility and this is where Cognitive Service's can help. In this blog we'll see how the Computer Vision and Content Moderator connectors can help monitor the images that are uploaded to SharePoint libraries buy tagging them and also identifying those that are either racy or adult.

This blog focuses on how using Flow you can automate the process of monitoring incoming emails and create tasks in existing Plans in Planner. The Flow is smart enough to focuses on new emails only and ignore replies.

As someone who simply cannot win a raffle price I decided to remove 'Luck' out of the equation and instead leverage Flow, Cognitive Service Text Analytics and Power BI to make price winning a little more interesting and fare. One would even say I added a new meaning to the phrase 'Luck favors the prepared'.

As you might have noticed there is no action to check if a file exists in the SharePoint connector in Microsoft Flow.

This is a problem when you try to create a file and your flows kick off multiple times when you haven't handled your triggers properly.

In this post, I'm giving a workaround to check if a file exists.

At the MVP Summit in Redmond, Jeremy Thake got time to talk to John Liu about Microsoft Flow, from a professional developer perspective.

I have found quite a few people asking about empty fields and how to check in Microsoft Flow that these fields are empty. In this post, I'm going through the options.

Does your business involve handling documents, such as invoices, purchase orders, shipping notes, etc. on a daily basis? Do you find yourself re-keying valuable data which is trapped inside PDF or scanned documents? If your business relies on data which is not available in an easy-to-access format, manual data entry can quickly become a bottleneck and harm your business. Luckily, there is a solution to this problem!