A trigger is the event that starts your flow. Without a trigger, the flow won’t know when to run.
There are 3 types of triggers in Power Automate.
- Manual Triggers – Flow starts only when a user manually triggers it, e.g user clicks on a button to generate the PDFs.
- Automated Triggers – Flow starts automatically when an event happens. E,g When a new email arrives in Outlook then save email attachment to OneDrive.
- Scheduled triggers – Flow starts at a specific time or on a recurring schedule. E.g. schedule a flow to run every morning at 9 AM to send daily reports.
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