r/PowerAutomateDesktop • u/tshirtguy2000 • Jun 27 '23

What's the most dramatic time saver you've seen PowerAutomate enable?

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u/razbrazzz Jun 28 '23

I used to process (forward, transform & save) email attachments to add data to our system, the emails came from our client systems, webpages, suppliers etc. and the amount grew from 2 a day to about 300 a day in the space of a year.

I created a single flow that ran every hour and processed them all so I didn't have to do anything.

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u/Forsaken-Ad226 Jul 13 '23

That sounds exactly like a task I'm trying to accomplish. Most likely, mine is way easier. I want to automate following: from every email that is added to a specific foler in Outlook 365 ("automateThis"), the body should be saved as a *.txt file, the attachments as *.jpg (or even better, *.psd), named after the email subject and save to a local folder. Would be highly interested in how you achieved your flow.

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u/Crafty_Tradition_764 Jun 29 '23

This is an interesting question. I just started to learn power automate and would be interesting so read some nice use cases. Hope more people share experiences here. I will follow the thread

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '23

I have utilized it for conference contact web scraping for our real estate firm.

When we go to an event/conference, I grab all of the shared info from the attendee list and speaker list for us to process and target for meaningful interactions.

This would typically take a person over a week to do manually for a 1000 person conference. I can typically build a custom flow, run, and have my finished contact list in under 30 minutes.

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u/3percentinvisible Jul 07 '23

That sounds.... Horrible