{"id":111030,"date":"2020-01-03T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/25-days-of-flows-the-power-automate-advent-calendar\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:00:00","slug":"25-days-of-flows-the-power-automate-advent-calendar","status":"publish","type":"power-automate","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/25-days-of-flows-the-power-automate-advent-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Days of flows &#8211; The Power Automate Advent Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you were following along during our YouTube holiday event <strong>25 Days of flows &#8211; the Power Automate Advent Calendar<\/strong>. In this special 25 day suite of both content and flow downloads, you were invited to take a journey with me around the possibilities. With 60% beginner level flows, 30% intermediate level flows, and 10% advanced flow scenarios, there is someone fun for everyone!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"25 Days of Flows: The Power Automate Advent Calendar\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/oWfYZg25qLs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 25 Days outline is as follows:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>Day<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Topic<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Receive notifications when new videos are posted (automated)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Push updates from Dynamics to a Microsoft Teams message (automated)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Send Forms responses to Microsoft Teams and add built-in PBI analytics (automated)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Send a welcome email for new Microsoft Teams members (automated)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Query accounts from the press of a button (instant)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>6<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Translate text to French (instant)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>7<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Send weekly CSV reports from a SharePoint Online list view (scheduled)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>8<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Value-Statement: Who needs Approvals? (templates)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>9<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Walkthroughs: Approvals Part 1 and 2 (instant)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>10<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Using the outcome from Approvals (automated)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>11<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Create your own Magic Ball Wizard (automated)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>12<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Send a weekly list of premium connectors (scheduled)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>13<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Upload receipts to SharePoint (instant)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>14<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Compare two Excel spreadsheets and return the variance in an HTML table (instant)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>15<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Find out if you&#8217;ll be late to the conference (instant)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>16<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Replace someone else\u2019s connections within a flow with your own (instant)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>17<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Remind me to do &#8216;this&#8217; in x days (unstant)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>18<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Send new member bio to Teams (instant)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>19<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Create a weekly backup of Power Apps applications to OneDrive (automated)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>20<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Receive the daily NASA image to your email inbox (scheduled)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>21<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Challenge: When I enter the grocery store send me my groceries list (automated)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>22<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Learn how to edit a flow definition from another flow (instant)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>23<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Send an visual Account map to Microsoft Teams (instant)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>24<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Create your first custom connector (basics)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>25<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Create your own custom connector (with multiple actions)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"62\"><strong>Bonus P.S. Vlog<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Finishing touches on my Cocktails Custom Connector<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If you missed the series, no worries! The recorded playlist will be available all year from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oWfYZg25qLs&amp;list=PLnFZgEkUYL024diQf34-loAZ1IkbKL68R&amp;index=1\">here in numerical order<\/a>, and the actual\u00a0Power Apps application is downloadable from <a href=\"https:\/\/powerusers.microsoft.com\/t5\/Community-App-Samples\/25-Days-of-Flows-The-App-behind-the-series\/td-p\/433575\">here<\/a>. Feel free to reuse these in your demos and user groups as well!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Enjoy, and Happy New Year to you and yours!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Audrie<br \/>\n(aka @ArtsyPowerApper on Twitter)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Power Automate team added a special twist to this years holiday season with a 25 day series with a ton of best practices, lessons learned, and fun content around building flows. 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