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In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to sign up for Microsoft Flow and set up a simple workflow using one of the many available templates.
Microsoft Flow allows users to automate workflows without understanding how to work with the publicly available APIs that developers use to create complex solutions using multiple services and apps from different vendors. Flow contains a wide range of templates for automating workflows, or you can create and share your own.
A workflow might automatically post photos you upload to Instagram to your Twitter feed, or post status updates on multiple social networks simultaneously. Or productivity solutions might include automatically creating a Wunderlist task from emails labelled important, or synchronizing files from one cloud storage provider to another. For more information on Flow, see What is Microsoft Flow? on the Petri IT Knowledgebase.
In this article, I’m going to show you how to post tweets that match a hashtag to Slack. To complete this demo, you’ll need a Microsoft account, a Twitter account and a project configured in Slack. See What is Slack and Is It Better Than Email? on Petri for more details on Slack.
Before you can use Flow, you’ll need to sign up with a Microsoft account. If you already have a Microsoft account and have previously registered for Flow, you can click Sign in on the Flow webpage here. If you haven’t signed up before, click Sign up free and provide your Microsoft account username and password.
Choose a Flow template (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Customize the Flow (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Tweets posted as messages in Slack (Image Credit: Russell Smith)
Because the #windows10 hashtag is commonly used on Twitter, you should see messages posted to your chosen Slack channel almost instantly. To turn off the Flow, click My flows and disable the Flow using the toggle switch.
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