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Automate to create a document approval sheet using Power Automate approval data before embedding it within a document.</p><a aria-label="Read more: Intermediate | Flow of The Week: Create and insert a document approval sheet using Flow approval data"href=/en-us/blog/intermediate-flow-of-the-week-create-and-insert-a-document-approval-sheet-using-flow-approval-data/> » Read more </a></div></article></div><div class="row column"><article class=post role=article><div><h2><a title="Beginner | Flow of the Week : Automate Onboarding Communications with Flow!"href=/en-us/blog/beginner-flow-of-the-week-automate-onboarding-communications-with-flow/ rel=bookmark> Beginner | Flow of the Week : Automate Onboarding Communications with Flow! </a></h2><div class=post-bio><div class=post-author-meta><p><a href=/en-us/blog/author/migilber/ rel=author> Michelle Gilbert </a> , Wednesday, December 4, 2019</div></div><p>Onboarding is a painful experience at many organizations. Managers are busy, and welcoming a new hire can fall through the cracks. Thinking about onboarding communication as a business solution means workflows, updates, and notifications galore. But the good news is that you can swoop to the rescue with a smart use of Flow.</p><a aria-label="Read more: Beginner | Flow of the Week : Automate Onboarding Communications with Flow!"href=/en-us/blog/beginner-flow-of-the-week-automate-onboarding-communications-with-flow/> » Read more </a></div></article></div><div class="row column"><article class=post role=article><div><h2><a title="Intermediate | Flow of the Week : Expressions for Non-Developers Part I"href=/en-us/blog/intermediate-flow-of-the-week-expressions-for-non-developers-part-i/ rel=bookmark> Intermediate | Flow of the Week : Expressions for Non-Developers Part I </a></h2><div class=post-bio><div class=post-author-meta><p><a href=/en-us/blog/author/jolevesq/ rel=author> Jonathon Levesque </a> , Senior Platform Evangelist, Wednesday, November 13, 2019</div></div><p>As part of a series intended to help non-developers brave some of the intimidating aspects of Power Automate, I wanted to cover one of my favorite expressions in a very simple Flow…split().</p><a aria-label="Read more: Intermediate | Flow of the Week : Expressions for Non-Developers Part I"href=/en-us/blog/intermediate-flow-of-the-week-expressions-for-non-developers-part-i/> » Read more </a></div></article></div><div class="row column"><article class=post role=article><div><h2><a title="Intermediate | Flow of the Week: Geo-Fence Your Customers"href=/en-us/blog/intermediate-flow-of-the-week-geo-fence-your-customers/ rel=bookmark> Intermediate | Flow of the Week: Geo-Fence Your Customers </a></h2><div class=post-bio><div class=post-author-meta><p><a href=/en-us/blog/author/jolevesq/ rel=author> Jonathon Levesque </a> , Senior Platform Evangelist, Wednesday, September 4, 2019</div></div><p>For this weeks Flow of the Week, come and learn from Flow Joe as he teaches you how to Geo-Fence your customers to help your salespeople walk in with the best information!</p><a aria-label="Read more: Intermediate | Flow of the Week: Geo-Fence Your Customers"href=/en-us/blog/intermediate-flow-of-the-week-geo-fence-your-customers/> » Read more </a></div></article></div><div class="row column"><article class=post role=article><div><h2><a title="Intermediate | Flow of the week: Create PDF Invoices Using Word Templates with Microsoft Flow"href=/en-us/blog/intermediate-flow-of-the-week-create-pdf-invoices-using-word-templates-with-microsoft-flow/ rel=bookmark> Intermediate | Flow of the week: Create PDF Invoices Using Word Templates with Microsoft Flow </a></h2><div class=post-bio><div class=post-author-meta><p><a href=/en-us/blog/author/jolevesq/ rel=author> Jonathon Levesque </a> , Senior Platform Evangelist, Thursday, July 18, 2019</div></div><p>John MacDougall is a Microsoft MVP and freelance consultant and trainer for hire specializing in Excel, Power BI, Flow, PowerApps and SharePoint. You can find more interesting articles from John on his blog or YouTube channel. In this post he is going to show you how you can use the new Word connectors in Flow to easily create some really nice looking PDF invoices.</p><a aria-label="Read more: Intermediate | Flow of the week: Create PDF Invoices Using Word Templates with Microsoft Flow"href=/en-us/blog/intermediate-flow-of-the-week-create-pdf-invoices-using-word-templates-with-microsoft-flow/> » Read more </a></div></article></div><div class="row column"><article class=post role=article><div><h2><a title="Beginner | Flow of the Week: Introduction to the Power BI Connector"href=/en-us/blog/beginner-flow-of-the-week-introduction-to-the-power-bi-connector/ rel=bookmark> Beginner | Flow of the Week: Introduction to the Power BI Connector </a></h2><div class=post-bio><div class=post-author-meta><p><a href=/en-us/blog/author/jolevesq/ rel=author> Jonathon Levesque </a> , Senior Platform Evangelist, Wednesday, July 10, 2019</div></div><p>This week, get introduced to the Power BI Connector inside of Microsoft Flow to learn how you can use it to move and understand your data in more useful ways!! taught by Doctor Flow AKA Serge Luca, Flow MVP.</p><a aria-label="Read more: Beginner | Flow of the Week: Introduction to the Power BI Connector"href=/en-us/blog/beginner-flow-of-the-week-introduction-to-the-power-bi-connector/> » Read more </a></div></article></div><div class="row column"><article class=post role=article><div><h2><a title="Intermediate | Flow of the Week: Approvals in Teams using Adaptive Cards"href=/en-us/blog/intermediate-flow-of-the-week-approvals-in-teams-using-adaptive-cards/ rel=bookmark> Intermediate | Flow of the Week: Approvals in Teams using Adaptive Cards </a></h2><div class=post-bio><div class=post-author-meta><p><a href=/en-us/blog/author/jolevesq/ rel=author> Jonathon Levesque </a> , Senior Platform Evangelist, Thursday, June 27, 2019</div></div><p>Whats up Flow Community! This week we are bringing you a video tutorial to show you how to add Microsoft Flow Approvals to Microsoft Teams by using Adaptive Cards with Flow MVP Daniel Laskewitz.</p><a aria-label="Read more: Intermediate | Flow of the Week: Approvals in Teams using Adaptive Cards"href=/en-us/blog/intermediate-flow-of-the-week-approvals-in-teams-using-adaptive-cards/> » Read more </a></div></article></div><div class="row column"><article class=post role=article><div><h2><a title="Intermediate | Flow of the Week: Early Meeting Reminder"href=/en-us/blog/beginner-flow-of-the-week-early-meeting-reminder/ rel=bookmark> Intermediate | Flow of the Week: Early Meeting Reminder </a></h2><div class=post-bio><div class=post-author-meta><p><a href=/en-us/blog/author/zachsi/ rel=author> Zack Sigmund </a> , Software Engineer II, Wednesday, June 12, 2019</div></div><p>Have you ever missed an important meeting because it was before your normal work hours? Learn how to get reminder emails for early meetings using Microsoft Flow, and get a crash course in the joy of time zones at the same time.</p><a aria-label="Read more: Intermediate | Flow of the Week: Early Meeting Reminder"href=/en-us/blog/beginner-flow-of-the-week-early-meeting-reminder/> » Read more </a></div></article></div><div class="row column"><article class=post role=article><div><h2><a title="Intermediate | Flow of The Week: How to automate PDF document generation from a DOCX template using Microsoft Flow"href=/en-us/blog/intermediate-flow-of-the-week-how-to-automate-pdf-document-generation-from-a-docx-template-using-microsoft-flow/ rel=bookmark> Intermediate | Flow of The Week: How to automate PDF document generation from a DOCX template using Microsoft Flow </a></h2><div class=post-bio><div class=post-author-meta><p><a href=/en-us/blog/author/jolevesq/ rel=author> Jonathon Levesque </a> , Senior Platform Evangelist, Wednesday, June 5, 2019</div></div><p>In this article, I will describe how to automate the creation of complex PDF documents from a template. Let us say we have a sales department. They are tired of filling the same documents with brief changes again and again. We could provide them some form for filling data and generate documents automatically.</p><a aria-label="Read more: Intermediate | Flow of The Week: How to automate PDF document generation from a DOCX template using Microsoft Flow"href=/en-us/blog/intermediate-flow-of-the-week-how-to-automate-pdf-document-generation-from-a-docx-template-using-microsoft-flow/> » Read more </a></div></article></div><div class="row column"><article class=post role=article><div><h2><a title="Advanced | Flow of the Week: Triage and Team Assignment with Microsoft Flow"href=/en-us/blog/advanced-flow-of-the-week-triage-and-team-assignment-with-microsoft-flow/ rel=bookmark> Advanced | Flow of the Week: Triage and Team Assignment with Microsoft Flow </a></h2><div class=post-bio><div class=post-author-meta><p><a href=/en-us/blog/author/v-gecull/ rel=author> George Culler </a> , Wednesday, May 29, 2019</div></div><p>Triage and Team Assignment Flow Whats up Flow Friends! 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