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Power Automate Introduction 2-day training course

Two days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

 

You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

Because for both online and classroom courses you'll be using our computers, you won't need to install any software to attend this course, but you will get more out of the two days if you have some familiarity with Teams, Power BI and/or SharePoint.

Course schedule

Here are our next few Introduction to Power Automate course dates:

Dates Times Venue Price (excl. VAT)
07-08 Jan 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
04-05 Feb 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
27-28 Feb 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
27-28 Mar 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
29-30 Apr 09:30-16:30 Online £825 Book
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Got a handful of like-minded people in your organisation? You could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Introduction to Power Automate training course contents

If you use cloud-based Microsoft applications such as Teams, SharePoint and Office 365, or want to generate surveys quickly using Forms, Power Automate can make your life easier by automating the repetitive tasks that a human (you, probably!) would otherwise have to do. Learn how to get your computer to do things automatically on your behalf, freeing you up for other more interesting work!

The contents of this course are as follows:

Getting started

  • What Power Automate is and does
  • PA vs Power Automate Desktop
  • Software licensing overview

Triggers and templates

  • Understanding triggers
  • Using templates
  • Ways to run flows

Writing basic flows

  • Adding actions
  • Notes and comments
  • Scoping actions

Debugging techniques

  • Viewing JSON outputs
  • Using Compose actions
  • Creating CSV files

Conditions and loops

  • Creating if conditions
  • Switch statements
  • Do Until loops

Basic expressions

  • Adding expressions
  • Inserting dynamic content
  • Using experimental features

Getting data

  • The importance of OData filters
  • Getting data from different sources
  • Collapsing arrays using Select
  • Creating HTML tables

Apply to each loops

  • Creating automatically and manually
  • Referring to the current item
  • Nesting loops

Excel flows

  • The importance of tables
  • Getting rows
  • Adding rows

Outlook

  • Sending emails
  • Creating flow rules
  • Downloading attachments

Files and folders

  • OneDrive triggers and actions
  • Getting file propeties
  • Listing files and folders

SharePoint

  • SharePoint triggers
  • SharePoint actions
  • Working with SharePoint lists

Teams

  • Triggers from Teams
  • Posting content
  • Other Teams actions

Forms

  • Creating MS Forms surveys
  • Reacting to form completion

Approvals

  • Creating an approval process
  • Processing approvals / rejections
  • Custom responses

Handling errors

  • Run after actions
  • Try / Catch / Finally blocks
  • Picking out error messages

Power BI integration

  • Creating a button
  • Assigning fields
  • Using data in your flow
Please see further up this page for what you should know beforehand (if anything) in order to attend this course.

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

And some benefits specific to online training:

  • Courseware manual posted to you in advance
  • Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
  • Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"Great introduction - I knew pretty much nothing about SQL or reading databases prior to the course and felt I had learnt a lot. The course is quite intense and my brain was nearly saturated by the end. The delivery of content in steps and blocks was a great structure. Our colleagues have already had training with Wise Owl and recommended you to us again. Was great!"

Clemence Hope (The Modern Milkman)

"Good course structure and the trainer was excellent. Many thanks."

Dorothy Titus-Glover (Hounslow & Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust)

"An excellent instructor, who is obviously keen on the use of Power BI. He answered every question asked - reflective of his knowledge of Power BI. The 300+ page training document is excellent too. This was my second course with Wise Owl and likely won't be my last."

Ian Grant (Collinson Group)

"Excellent training as always."

Faye Chard (Welsh Ambulance Services University NHS Trust)

"Excellent course/venue, trainer explained clearly and nothing was too much trouble."

Matt Austin (Singleton Birch Ltd)

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

  1. A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
  2. A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

  • For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
  • For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

What you won't need

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed.  This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

  • familiarise yourself with the set-up;
  • meet your trainer; and
  • get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

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