5 ways to Manually Trigger a Power Automate Flow

[@jurgenbjansen7574]

Helpful especially the Sharepoint button option you mentioned. Ty!

[@andrewhess123]

Thanks jurgen!

[@geralddahl9159]

Thx for the idea of adding Power App to SharePoint site. I need to look into this. (I’ve converted SharePoint add list item to Power App control, and I’ve added a Power App to a site page, at the bottom, but the way you put yours on the side is what I need to explore.) Thx also for revealing Power Automate in Teams. Much appreciated.

[@kingsleyudeagha]

I love the control center idea with PowerApps triggered flows

[@andrewhess123]

Yeah we are actually using that idea in production now. An it's actually a great introduction to Power Automate for new hires.

[@pedrodelburgo2135]

Very helpful. I chose to go route 5 to create buttons on my sharepoint list. I am having a hard time getting the aspect ratios right so that the buttons are legible. You skipped over the screen settings here. How do I need to have these setting to return it the way you have it here?

[@andrewhess123]

Hi Pedro, So option 5 was Power Apps to make that one resize you should probably make it responsive, but option 4 was in the SharePoint list. Here is a good JSON in the next comment below that worked well for me you can adjust the width and center it with the extra JSON I have here.

[@andrewhess123]

{ "$schema": "developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json", "elmType": "button", "txtContent": "Start flow", "customRowAction": { "action": "executeFlow", "actionParams": "{\"id\": \"f35e6a31-f1e4-4a24-9943-7cdb0c5b9ac4\"}" }, "style": { "width": "150px", "margin": "0 auto", "display": "block" } }

[@pedrodelburgo2135]

@@andrewhess123 thank you for the support! I am going to try it out in the coming days

[@gautamtanwar6783]

Hi Andrew, great video! Very useful to someone like me who doesn't code a lot. For the method where I add a button to run flow in Sharepoint Lists, is there a way for me to see the progress of my flow? I have a flow which takes about 5 minutes to run, and I want to know when it's finished.

[@andrewhess123]

Hi Gautam, well this depends if there are for loops or some functionality you can't always see all progress. You can go into your Flow and click on the date and that should show you the current progress of any flow that is already running. Another option is when your flow is finished is send yourself an email or a teams message, or even a text.

[@gautamtanwar6783]

@@andrewhess123 Yes that makes sense. The option to send an email or Teams message right from flow is still baffling to me. Will do that. Thanks a ton!

[@adlaimaschiach]

@4:51 Hi , in here you reference an older video which you have already demonstrated this method : 1. can you comment here the link to that video , 2. I think in that video you have referenced website from which you take most of your SVG icons , can you post that as well ? TNX

[@andrewhess123]

Hey Adlai thanks for watching! These videos are decently old but here is the other video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aWPdc3Wufa6DqcU&t. I should create a new one. 😀 if I mentioned icons most likely it was from this site: icons8.com/icons/set/house

[@cptcavernicola]

Thank you for providing me with the examples. I have managed to set the flow run action with JSON on a SharePoint column. However, I have a question. Is there any way to run the workflow without having to click on the 'Run' button in the confirmation box? Since I am calling to execute the flow, why does it keep asking for confirmation? I want to avoid this confirmation box. Do you know of any trick that can help me to omit the Run Flow confirmation box?

[@andrewhess123]

Hi, I don't know of a way yet without having that second click. Have to think about that one.

[@andrewhess123]

Maybe a custom part using spfx could do it.

[@dereketsao7071]

Hi Andrew, great video and very useful! The only thing that I can think about to make this video better is to enlarge your video a bit so those fonts are easier for your audiences to read it. Once again, thanks to create this video that has made my day!

[@andrewhess123]

Hi Derek, yeah understandable, been getting better at it with my newer videos. Thanks for the feedback though. I'll try to do it even more!

[@alahatim]

@@andrewhess123 looked perfectly fine on my screen - i think if he enlarges it, we'll lose being able to see the overall data and all that's included. i hate when ppl have their resolution very small and you can only see portions of the screen without having to scroll or move around

[@andrewhess123]

Thanks alahtim, it's very hard to figure out the right spot@@alahatim

[@kingsleyudeagha]

Thank you for sharing