Effortlessly Streamline Your Workflow Automation with the New-ish AI-Powered 'Describe it to Design it' Flow for Power Automate
Jason Rivera
Senior Manager, Collaboration Architect at Cognizant Microsoft Business Group | Solving business challenges through the use of Microsoft 365 tools and custom solutions | Author | Speaker | Blogger | Event Organizer
The new 'Describe it to design it (preview)' template is an AI driven template that uses natural language processing to take your description of what you want to build, and then it will create your flow with your connectors added and actions laid out. After you select your template, you're greeted with the following screenshot. On the left of the screenshot, you can see that it's going to walk you through the process of building a cloud flow "with your own words." In the center of the page, you are given a text box as well as 3 examples of sentences you can use to build a cloud flow. In the text box, you can just begin typing your flows description.
A clear and concise description works best but whenever I demo this feature, I always choose something complex to demonstrate what works and what doesn't. This time won't be any different. The description that I'll use in this example is:
"Every morning at 1am eastern, check every item in a SharePoint list where the Color field is equal to 'Red' and send my manager an email containing a table consisting of the Item's Title, ID, and url"
As you type your description, you'll see suggestions appear just below the textbox. You can either select one of those suggestions or click the arrow to the right of the textbox. Take note that the suggestions are clear and concise. As I mentioned, this will work best when the description isn't overly complicated like my example.