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From YouTube: Igniting a Power Automate Revolution: What Happens When Salespeople like to Click Buttons?
Description
In this 14-minute citizen developer-focused demo, developer Gizzelle Akin relates a development journey prompted by necessity, a passing awareness of Power Automate and a supportive employer. The journey starts with a single time saving flow, value recognition, and peer adoption. Then blooms with learning and growth, community support, technology challenges that are overcome, and the full embrace of leadership for both the Maker and Power Platform capabilities. This is a practical and implementable journey.
This PnP Community demo is taken from the Microsoft Power Platform community call – March 2023, recorded on March 15, 2023.
Demo Presenter
• Gizzelle Akin | @gizzelleakin
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• https://aka.ms/Mar15-Demo2
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A
B
So
everyone
has
like
the
favorite
thing,
they've
ever
built
their
pride
and
joy,
and
this
is
that
for
me
and
it's
a
bit
of
a
spaghetti
mess
on
this
on
the
screen,
but
we're
going
to
walk
through
this
and
kind
of
how
it
came
to
life.
But
in
order
to
do
that,
it's
really
important
to
go
back
to
the
beginning
and
the
beginning
has
kind
of
been
my
development
Journey,
the
lessons
learned
and
why
sales
was
key
in
bringing
that
particular
Flow,
To
Life
so
prior
to
getting
into
the
technology
industry.
B
I
worked
at
my
family's
donut
shop,
so
started
there
when
I
was
about
14.
I
worked
at
an
apartment,
management,
company,
leasing,
apartments
and
I
sold
clothes
at
Nordstrom.
So
not
really
a
technical
background
at
all,
but
everything
that
I've
done
has
always
been
tied
to
commission.
So
you
know
any
of
the
different
things.
B
The
more
I
sold
the
more
money
I
made,
so
that
was
a
real
motivator
for
me,
and
there
was
also
the
sense
of
accomplishment
that
I
was
able
to
have
these
quick
wins
that
were
able
to
say
that
hey
I
was
good
at
my
job,
so
I
did
everything
that
I
could
to
maximize
my
success
and
I
was
actually
really
good
at
it.
So
the
secrets
to
some
of
my
success
other
than
being
in
Aries
and
being
naturally
competitive,
is
to
actually
learn
the
products
and
actually
learn
the
products
that
I'm
selling.
B
So
when
I
got
into
the
technology
industry,
my
last
company
was
a
Microsoft
gold
partner.
So
I
was
like
okay,
I
need
to
learn
more
about
what
Microsoft
has
and
what
their
offerings
are
and
what
I
can
tell
my
customers
about.
So
I
was
always
just
kind
of
taking
my
time
in
my
evenings
and
weekends
or
anything
to
be
able
to
educate
myself
on
the
different
products
and
very
shortly
thereafter.
I
stumbled
across
this
Microsoft
flow
online
conference
in
2019
on
YouTube,
and
it
was
a
great
format.
B
You
know
kind
of
Started
from
the
beginning
of
people
who
don't
know
anything
and
kind
of
got
more
complex
throughout
the
day.
So
I
watched
quite
a
bit
of
it
and
there
was
a
couple
things
that
really
stuck
with
me
about
how
easy
it
was
to
build
these
automation
flows
and
how
impactful
they
can
really
be
for
a
particular
organization.
So
I
was
thoroughly
impressed
and
thought
it
was
the
coolest
thing
ever
and
went
back
to
my
company
the
next
day
and
said
pretty.
Please
can
I
have
this?
Can
we
do
this?
B
So,
as
a
salesperson,
I
said
well,
if
I
can't
sell
it,
then
I'll
kind
of
forget
that
it
even
exists,
but
as
my
career
progressed
and
I
left
that
company
and
went
to
another
company,
more
and
more
of
these
manual
processes
in
the
sales
world
would
come
in
and
really
kind
of
impact
and
take
away
my
ability
to
sell
and
my
ability
to
produce
for
the
company.
So
I
really
thought
well,
like
I
can
do
this.
B
Like
I
watched
the
YouTube
video
in
2019
like
why
can't
I
really
take
a
look
at
this
and
build
these
automation
flows
myself.
So
I
went
back
to
YouTube.
That
was
my
source
of
information
and
searched
for
more
detail
around
this
flow
thing,
which
I
Learned
was
now
called
Power
automate
years
later
and
within
two
days
had
written
my
first
flow
and
it
was
super
simple,
but
one
of
the
use
cases
that
we
had
was
our
marketing
team
needs
to
get
contact
information
from
our
customers.
B
So
I
created
this
power
automate
flow
where,
when
a
new
email
arrived
to
my
inbox,
if
the
domain
matched
my
customer
domain,
then
I
stored
the
information
to
SharePoint
list
and
we
literally
went
from
tracking,
maybe
like
a
dozen
contacts
in
a
particular
quarter
to
getting
like
400
plus
contacts
in
a
quarter
because
it
was
automatically
happening.
So
it
was
really
exciting
to
see
the
value
that
we
got
from
being
able
to
have
such
a
simple
flow
implemented
for
my
customer
base.
B
So,
of
course,
being
a
seller
and
what
sellers
do
is
sell.
Things
is
I,
really
started
running
around
and
telling
everyone
about
how
amazing
this
was
and
how
this
flow
that
I,
as
a
non-technical
person
built,
had
such
an
impact
for
our
organization
and
I
thought
it
was
pretty
much
the
coolest
person
ever
to
be
able
to
do
that.
So
I
ran
around
kind
of
telling
everyone
at
the
company.
Well,
you
need
power
automate,
you
need
power,
automate
and
I
showed
my
peers.
B
What
I
could
do
taught
them
how
easy
it
was
help
them
implement
it
for
themselves
and
they
started
kind
of
coming
back
to
me
saying:
well,
that's
cool
that
you
can
get
their
email
address,
but
can
you
get
their
first
and
last
name?
Can
you
track
more
than
one
customer?
Can
it
track
meetings?
Can
it
put
away?
B
So
the
way
that
we
look
at
that
particular
one
is
that
most
organizations
have
prospecting
days
so
days
where
their
sales
teams
go
out
and
they
call
customers
and
try
to
generate
new
business
and
people
are
incentivized
with
like
points
and
prizes
and
recognition
for
building
and
bringing
in
potential
business.
But
the
thing
about
them
is
they
usually
require
a
lot
of
manual
work.
So
tracking
your
calls
tracking
your
emails
tracking
your
opportunities
entering
all
that
stuff
in
to
get
to
get
points.
B
So
the
first
time
that
I
did
that
you
know
the
first
event
event
one
perform
an
activity
and
then
manually
enter
it
into
the
CRM
and
that
took
forever
so
I
said.
Well,
they
have
the
next
event
the
next
six
months
later
I
was
like.
Why
don't
you
figure
a
better
way
to
do
this?
So
I
performed
all
the
individual
activities
at
like
700
different
things
in
a
day,
and
then
I
got
a
group
of
my
friends
and
we
entered
them
all
at
the
same
time.
That
also
didn't
work.
B
So
by
the
time
event,
three
came
through
I
said:
well,
I'm
learning
all
this
stuff
about
power,
automate
like.
Why
can't
we
just
automate
that
so
took
the
steps
for
it
where
I
wanted
to
be
able
to
say
well,
I
want
to
send
a
lot
of
emails
to
these
customers,
because,
if
I
get
a
point
for
each
email
that
I
send
I
can
build
a
power
automate
flow
to
send
custom
emails
to
those
contacts
in
a
short
period
of
time.
So
I
was
able
to
build.
B
This
automation
flow
manually
triggered
to
be
able
to
send
up
to
like
3
000
emails
in
a
day.
So
before
like
if
somebody
was
just
got
like
700
points,
it
was
huge.
So
now
I
was
able
to
get
people
to
get
like
3
000
points
with
a
click
of
a
button,
and
it
was
able
to
massively
increase
our
productivity.
B
So
then
I
was
like
well.
How
do
I
track
all
of
these
different
points,
so
I
was
able
to
create
a
Office
365
group
email
address
that
I
cc'd
on
all
of
these
different
activities,
initialize
a
bunch
of
variables,
but
then
be
able
to
say
anytime.
Something
arrives
like
an
email
arrived
or
a
meeting
arrived
to
that
group's
email
address
to
parse
out
all
the
information
get
all
of
the
things
that
I
needed
and
have
it
automatically
put
those
into
the
points
leaderboard
and
assign
user
points.
B
B
Trying
to
solidify
the
automation
flow
to
make
sure
that
it
worked
and
the
video
game
is
actually
dungeon
master
2
Legends
of
school
keep
so
any
guesses.
On
kind
of
what
happened
from
the
particular
the
particular
day
of
the
event,
I
was
going
through
and
trying
to
say,
hey.
This
is
how
you're
going
to
benefit.
This
is
how
you're
going
to
benefit.
This
is
how
you're
going
to
benefit
and
said.
Okay.
Well
now,
I
have
to
like
actually
make
that
happen
and
shock
everyone
into
like
success
and
learned
through
it.
B
That
failure
is
a
really
important
part
of
this
scientific
Endeavor,
because
we
ended
up
running
into
some
pretty
significant
challenges.
One
is
that
you
know
the
flow
to
send
the
thousands
of
emails
with
a
click
of
a
button
plus
the
Office
365
groups.
Mail
connector,
didn't
end
up
working
because
that
connector
could
only
handle
up
to
100
requests
every
60
seconds.
So
a
lot
of
people
that
were
taking
advantage
of
the
automation
or
weren't
able
to
see
success
in
those
particular
Point
activities.
B
B
Add
the
activities,
because
I
wanted
to
make
sure
that
everyone
was
excited
about
Automation
and
it
was
going
to
work
the
way
that
I
told
them
it
was
going
to
and
with
that,
we
were
able
to
like
kind
of
celebrate,
because
even
though
I
was
scrambling
on
the
back
end
to
make
it
work,
everyone
else's
user
experience
definitely
improved
through
that,
and
they
were
excited
about
what
that
power
automate
was
able
to
bring
to
them.
So
at
that
point,
I
was
like
well.
B
We
need
to
really
move
forward
with
this
and
get
more
people
excited
about
Automation
and
for
myself,
I
needed
to
really
kind
of
learn
and
grow
and
figure
out.
You
know
how
can
I
make
this
better,
so
I
ended
up
doing
a
V2
of
the
track.
All
the
points
thing
where
we
were
able
to
kind
of
use
an
HTTP
get
connection.
Instead
of
The
Office
365
groups,
connector,
we
were
able
to
auto
tag
a
bunch
of
different
information.
B
We
were
able
to
get
more
detail
and
create
a
power
bi
dashboard
that
was
able
to
provide
live
updates
on
all
of
this
for
everyone.
So
it
was
really
this
whole
thing
where
I
was
able
to
kind
of
create
Journeys
based
on
the
user
feedback
and
really
kind
of
benefit
from
everything
and
again
this
is
kind
of
what
that
ended
up.
B
Turning
into
and
there's
still
some
different
challenges
in
it
like
if
there's
double
quotes
in
the
subject
lines
that
ended
up
failing
the
run,
you
know
something
that
I
wouldn't
have
thought
because,
like
really
who
puts
double
quotes
in
their
subject
lines,
but
that
was
something
that
I
learned
and
had
to
fix
for
or
doing
an
Excel
lookup
of
the
domain's
cause
performance
lag,
so
you
know
kind
of
slowly.
Moving
these
things
forward,
and
you
know
rv3
will
probably
have
those
things
solved
for
so
continuing
to
kind
of
move
forward
on
all
of
those.
B
So
what
I
really
learned
is
that
you
know
these
big
type
of
achievements
come
one
step
at
a
time
one
day
at
a
time
and
that
anyone
really
has
the
power
to
solve
the
problems
and
take
control
of
their
own
productivity
and
get
hundreds
of
people
excited
about
it,
just
based
on
their
user
experience
and
solving
these
problems.
So
realistically
things
to
kind
of
remember
is
that
every
role
is
a
sales
role.
You
know
you
need
to
sell
people
on
the
solutions
that
you're
building
users
want
to
learn
and
be
part
of
the
solution.
A
If
our
leadership
doesn't
understand
the
value
of
it,
it
could
cure
cancer,
but
if
they
don't
understand
that,
then
they're
not
going
to
empower
you
to
do
more
with
the
features
and
functionalities
and
the
technology
that
you
love
so
I.
Think
what
we're
learning
here
with
this
presentation
is
how
to
sell
that
to
your
leadership,
how
to
empower
them
to
understand
the
value
that's
brought
with
embracing
Technologies
and
allowing
you
to
do
more
with
the
Power
Platform.
A
So
it's
important
that
we
consider
all
aspects
of
that
on
calls
like
this,
to
ensure
that
everyone
has
an
understanding
and
is
equipped
to
be
able
to
do
more
with
the
Power
Platform
and
the
technology
they
love.
So
Giselle.
Thank
you
for
sharing
that
story
and
the
steps
you
took,
because
those
are
practical
and
implementable
and
encourage
you
all
to
go
back
and
watch
the
recordings
available.
Maybe
take
some
notes
and
see
where
you
might
be
able
to
put
that
into
action
in
your
organization,
because
it's
very
empowering
so
thank
you.
Giselle.