Power Automate Ideas

Ianmattroseman · ‎04-03-2018

Create a Flow from within Outlook incorporated into the existing "Outlook Rules Engine". Flows are triggered once an email has been tagged by Categories. These categories can then be exported into Excel with email subject, Categories, and a link to the Outlook email.

Lloyd · ‎10-16-2016

Similar to JorgeCarvalho's suggestion to allow SharePoint mailboxes to be targeted by the Office 365 Outlook integration (https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/Flow-to-support-SPO-Site-Mailbox/idi-p/5982) It would be supremely useful if we could select shared mailboxes too (and even resource mailboxes too) for Flows. At the moment, personal credentials are chosen (shared mailboxes don't have authenticable accounts).

togan · ‎11-28-2018

Hi When creating a Flow that creates a meeting, it should be possible to mark that meeting as Private. Thanks Michael

Randolph · ‎05-03-2017

Hi I need a template in Flow to keep contacts folders synchronized between two Office 365 Outlook accounts and / or Google account contacts. A current template exists that copies new Office 365 Outlook contacts from one account to a Google account contacts folder once per day. However, it is only between one Office 365 Outlook and one Google Calendar, only once a day (at a specified time - no trigger available from Office365 Outlook), only adds new contacts (no delete or change) and only copies one way.

michowl · ‎11-07-2016

Subject says it all. It would be helpful to be able to trigger a flow by flagging an email for follow up. I'd like to be able to add these emails to a Wunderlist to follow up on later.

rademann · ‎03-01-2017

Trigger: Outlook.com - When a new contact is created It would be geat to enable contact syncing between outlook and CRM via flow. It is important that, long-term, we have filters and conditions around this as it may not be something I want to trigger for every contact I create in outlook.com

Aarky · ‎06-26-2018

I would like the functionality of the "Send to OneNote" Outlook add-in to be a Flow action. This add-in creates a page for the selected email, including title, header, links, formatting, attachments, etc. Excellent tool, and none of the currently available actions can reproduce this. I can create a page in OneNote and include the body of the email, but the page is untitled, and attachments don't come along. Also the header is missing so you can't tell who sent the email and when. The "Send to OneNote" add-in creates a clone of the email message in OneNote with no missing information. Should be possible to make this a Flow action.

Tox · ‎02-06-2019

Microsoft Teams have the potential to become the most powerful tool in organisations. But e-mail is yet the biggest communication tool. It will be perfect if we receive an e-mail and if we had the capability of categorize the e-mail to be added as a task in some group in Planner. There's now some approaches on the available templates but they only create an entry for a specific group and only copies the subject (The e-mail body is not added to the task), based on flagged e-mails. This can be one of most differentiators of MS Teams usage if available.

sarangj · ‎10-21-2017

There is no way to modify other users calendar, unless it is shared with another user. so there must be something to enable flow to modify their calendar events or send mails through their mailbox

edammen · ‎07-04-2018

It would be great if it was possible to use flow to automatically share multiuple calendars with users. We use shared calendars as a booking system for a service we run. This service only becomes available after they users have gone through training, which means we don't want the calendars available to everyone. Our currently process revolves around using distrubution groups to share access with our users once they have been trained. This does not give them a "someone has shared a calendar with you" email. I was hoping that by using flow, we could automate the process of sharing calendars, and also give our users the "click here to accept" option via email. Thanks, Espen

BrandonHoward · ‎02-05-2019

Add the 'reply-to' address field to the send email action

michowl · ‎02-21-2017

As discussed in the linked forum post, the ODATA filters for Start & End Date/Time are being ignored. Not sure if being ignored by the Flow connector or the Outlook API. https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Forum/How-to-get-last-two-weeks-of-data/td-p/16481 @v-micsh-msft recommended I submit the bug as an idea.

BM-FR · ‎08-09-2018

In Sharepoint lists, there is an "Attachment" column available by default for each item. I would like to set a Flow this way : input : incoming email (from inbox) entitled "Object" with attachments "attachement.docx" output : item in a Sharepoint list named "object", with "attachment.docx" available in the attachment column So far I don't know how to do that with the existing templates in Flow. One fo them get attachment to a Sharepoint Library (not what I am looking for). Another one create an item in a Sharepoint List. This item in named after the mail's Object. However, so far, I can't get the attachement from the mail to be included in the newly created item. Any idea ?

Anonymous · ‎05-31-2017

It would be nice if there was a way create an outlook task for someone else when something is created in SharePoint. Example: 1. Item or file created in SharePoint (folder specificed) 2. Create Outlook Task 3. Select recepient of task (much like sending an email when a file is created, but a task instead) Also, if reminder options could be less specific (not having to select an exact date and time). As in, if the task is automatically created for someone else then you could set that the task should be due 5 hours from the time it was created. And then set a reminder for say 1 hour before that due date/time. Something like this: Mary adds file to Folder A in Sharepoint New task is generated for John in his Outlook Tasks Flow has been set to be due 5 hours from task creation Reminder sent to John 4 hours before task is due

bdv · ‎12-07-2017

It would be great to be able to sync contacts between Office 365 Outlook and Pipedrive. Ideally triggers / actions would allow for Flows that can support a 2-way sync such that contacts added/updated/deleted in either application sync to the other, but I certainly would appreciate starting with just a sync from Outlook to PIpedrive in the beginning. Keep the improvements coming.

jkman · ‎04-18-2017

Create an rss feed to publish in a website or mobile app from emails submitted to an Office 365/Outlook email account. This would be used for gathering information or content from company employees or external users so they can "publish" to a website by simply sending an email.

Sergio · ‎12-02-2016

When creating an Outlook 365 calendar event and inviting other atendees (or resources), be able to check the availability from all of them, then the flow to create rules in the flow to follow the situation. Example: - Make a flow that loops a predefined list of meeting rooms, finds the first room available for the next hour and then reserve it. Thanks

KSa · ‎06-23-2016

Flow may be used to sync a sharepoint contact list to users mailbox contact folder. I think it would be a good idea to provide a template that does just that. Sync a user selected contact list in exchange online with a user selected contact list in sharepoint online. Either one-way or two-way. A preconfigured template should be shared between users in a company so that activating the sync is very simple for new users. Most users needing shared contact lists on the phone - in their mailbox for ActiveSync to sync it - would profit from such a solution. So the number of potential users is huge!

Greg_Touchton · ‎05-02-2017

I use outlook rules to categorize my email. I want flows to interact with those rules and resulting categories/tags.

TaurangaNZ · ‎07-17-2018

I guess that would be a bad thing, because then Flow would see all my emails? Instead my idea is that I would like to trigger just certain emails using a rule from my desktop outlook to be sent to Flow to be processed.

Share your ideas and vote for future features

Flow triggered by Outlook email tagged with Categories - and exposing Categories outside of Outlook

Office 365 Outlook integration with shared mailboxes

Ability to mark meeting as private

Office365 Outlook contacts sync with various sources

Trigger: Outlook: When an email is Flagged

Trigger: Outlook.com - When a new contact is created

Send email to OneNote

More Integration between Outlook and MS Teams

An option to run flow in user context who created an item in sharepoint to access user calendar/mail

share calendar automatically

reply-to

Filter Outlook Events by date

Transfer easily emails and attachments form Outlook to Sharepoint lists

Team Flow - assigning task with outlook

Pipedrive Contacts sync with Office 365 Outlook

Create an RSS feed from Outlook email

check availabilty from atendees in a calendar event

contact sync

Interact with outlook rules

I want flow to be able to access my desktop Outlook client to trigger on incoming emails.

Helpful resources

Make it possible to duplicate actions in a Flow

Copy action - time saver

Sharepoint Create Folder

set item level security in SharePoint

Need Triggers for Dynamics 365 Operation