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Reminder to a Teams Channel Using Power Automate Flow
Playing with Power Automate Flow is fun and its capabilities are outstanding. I recently had to create a private channel in Teams and I had to update a file manually each month on a specific date as this data will be used by our Payroll team, thus it is vital to update this document without fail. So, I thought to use Microsoft Flow to remind me by posting a message to that private channel as a reminder. Here in this post, we will see how easily we can create a Flow to do that.
Configure the flow
To create a Flow you must sign in to the Power Automate portal, and then click on the + Create button on the left panel. As we need to do this every month, we can create a Scheduled cloud flow by clicking on the option “Scheduled cloud flow”. That should give you a pop-up as proceeding.
Fill in all the details in the pop-up and then click on the button Create, which should redirect you to the Flow edit page where you can add the steps to your flow. Now, click on the + icon to insert a new step (you can see this when you hover over in the flow section) and add the step…