If you search for “AI Builder” when creating a new step in Power Automate, you will be able to select the AI Builder group icon.

This group contains all the available actions based on AI Builder models.

You can also look for the kind of action you want to automate, and pick the AI Builder action that fits your need.

These new actions also include improvements such as dropdown lists for languages and document types.  For more information about AI Builder, and the models supported by these new actions, see AI Builder in Power Automate overview .

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The data that you need to provide to the AI Model changes based on the type of model that you select.

The format of the AI Model output also changes based on the type of model, and is now available in Power Automate “dynamic content” for you to use like any other data in your flow.

Form processing example

With AI Builder form processing, you can train an AI model to extract data from forms. In this example we’ll show how you can automatically extract data from invoices that you receive in email, and save the data to a SharePoint list.

To do this, you first create an AI Builder form processing model for the invoice you want to process. Once you train and publish the model, create a solution-aware flow in Power Automate that is triggered every time you receive an email with an attachment for a certain provider. To leverage the AI Builder model you trained, use the Predict action from the Common Data Service connector. Then, select your model and point it to the email attachment as shown here:

To save the extracted data to SharePoint, you add an action to the flow that creates a new SharePoint list item. You can easily select the results from the AI Builder model that you want to save to the list.

Sentiment analysis example

You can also use the prebuilt AI Builder models right out of the box without the need to train them. One of these pre-built models is sentiment analysis, which detects positive or negative sentiment in text data.

Let’s say that you are organizing an event, and you want to know what the sentiment of the audience is, based on the tweets coming out from the event. The first thing you do is create a solution-aware flow that is triggered every time somebody tweets with the hashtag of your event. Next, add the Predict action, select the sentiment analysis model, and then point as input the text from the tweet as shown in the following animation:

Do you want to be notified by email if somebody posts a tweet with negative sentiment? Just add a condition to check if the result coming from AI Builder is a negative sentiment, and to send an email with the text and author of the negative tweets. This example is shown here:

Learn more

You can refer to this documentation if you want to learn more about AI Builder usage in Power Automate for each scenario.

We are always working on improving the AI Builder experience, so feel free to reach us with feedback.

We’re looking forward to seeing what you build with the improved AI Builder experience in Power Automate!

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This weeks Flow of the week is written by April Dunnam. April is owner and lead consultant at ThriveFast, a Microsoft Partner focusing on building business solutions with SharePoint, PowerApps and Flow. She is an active blogger and speaker, blogging under the name SharePoint Siren. Check out her YouTube Channel and follow her on Twitter HERE. Also, be sure to leave some questions or comments below and she will be happy to answer them!

The Goal:

It’s Halloween and you still haven’t picked out a Halloween costume.  We want to find a way to make Flow do the work and pick out a Halloween costume for us!

Requirements:

1. A Flow subscription
2. A SharePoint list that contains a variety of possible costume options
3. A PowerApps subscription (optional) – For this article, I decided to create a PowerApp to kick off the Flow and return the costume.  This isn’t a requirement though as you could accomplish the same result with just a Flow button if you wanted to.

Setting up the Costume Database

The first step is to set up and configure the SharePoint list.  You’ll want to create a new SharePoint list called Costumes using the Custom list template.  In addition to the already included Title column add three other columns Single Line of Text Columns:  Gender, Category, Image.  Populate the list with some of your favorite Halloween costumes and tag what Gender and Category it falls under (Superhero, Time Period, Horror, etc).  You can also include an Image of the costume so we can see that in PowerApps.  

Creating the Flow

In Flow, create a Blank Flow and rename it to HalloweenHelper.

For your Trigger, Select PowerApps.  If you don’t want to use PowerApps then use Flow Button as your Trigger.

To retreive a random costume, we need to add a “SharePoint – Get List Items” Action.  We will point this action to the site where we created our Costumes list.  In the Filter Query of the Get List Items Action we will input the following formula so that we only return costumes that fit the selected gender and category:

Now that we have a list of the costumes that meet our requirements we need to get that down to one randomly selected item.  To do that, we will add a “Compose” action.  In the input for the compose action, we will utilize Flow’s rand function which let’s us get a random item.  The formula will look like this:

body(‘GetCostumes’)?[‘value’][rand(0,length(body(‘GetCostumes’)?[‘value’]))]

Now that we have a random item, we need to pass that item back to our PowerApp.  To do that, add a “Respond to PowerApps” action.  If you are using a Flow button instead of a PowerApp then you would insert a “Notify” action.  

In the Repond to PowerApps action, add two inputs:  SelectedCostume and SelectedImage.  

Set the value of the SelectedCostume output to the following expression:  outputs(‘GetRandom’)[‘Title’]

Set the value of the SelectedImage output to this expression: outputs(‘GetRandom’)[‘Column4’]

Rename your Flow and Save.

The PowerApp

For the PowerApp side of things, create a blank phone layout app.  On the landing page, insert two buttons that allow you to select the gender for the costume.  On click of each of those buttons,  use the Set function to set a variable which holds the selected gender. 

The next screen is a gallery of all of the categories to choose from.  Once a categoy is selected, we want that to call and execute the Flow to get a random costume. If you want to call a Flow from PowerApps, click on the OnSelect property of the button that you want to use to execute the Flow.  Select the “Action” bar in the ribbon then select “Flows”.  A list of all the Flow’s with PowerApps as a trigger will show up on the right hand side.  Select the Flow you just created and pass in the gender and category options.  

The last screen is the one that shows you the result.  We will just need to insert an image control and a label.  Set the Image property of the image control to varResult.selectedimage and set the Text property of the label to varResult.SelectedCostume.  

Conclusion

To see how it all comes together in action, check out the video below:

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Today I am excited to announce the FREE and ONLINE Microsoft Flow Conference, December 12, 2018 from 9am to 1:30PM MST

(Mark Your Calendar Now!)

There are Two ways for you to participate,

We would love for you to Attend and watch the sessions, and to do that, please register HERE

Also though, We would love for you to submit a session and join us as a Speaker! To submit your session, please follow the link HERE

If you have any questions, please dont hesitate to ask in the comments!

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The on-stop-shop solution for social networking using PowerApps and Flow

With the increasing number of data connections available, PowerApps with Flow makes the cross-platform functionality easier than it has ever been. It’s because of this reason PowerApps can be used as a central base used to sent out communications to social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Yammer, Slack and LinkedIn. This session includes a live demo and walk-through on how a single PowerApps can be used to send announcements. We’ll also see how Flow captures social media content and using Cognitive Services detects sentiment values to help analyze and using Speech translation media content to English. Finally, we’ll see how Flow can post the comments on Microsoft Teams as a central location to discuss the content.

Webinar Details:

When: Thursday 2/8 @ 10:00AM PST

Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVP7HgJuTQc

About Daniel Christian:

Daniel Christian has over 13 years of SharePoint experience starting with SharePoint Portal 2003. His area of expertise includes SharePoint On-Premises architecture, maintenance and administration, and SharePoint Online administration. He is a big fan of building no-code solutions and reporting. Currently, he is focused on PowerApps, Flow and Power BI and its integration using Gateway with SharePoint Server 2013 and 2016.

You can follow more of Daniel’s activities on Twitter @dchristian19.

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