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📕 LEARN SOMETHING
Power Automate super workflows

As a Power Automate consultant, here are some of the best ways I’ve seen it used to automate tasks and save time:

Let’s focus on one of them… Approvals!

Problem: Vacation requests that do not have a formal process are annoying. There’s lots of emails, no tracking, and tough to chase approvals.

Solution: Create a flow that requests manager approval for leave requests

1/ Create a SharePoint list

Here’s a SharePoint list I made to track vacations.

2/ Create an automated flow in Power Automate

Set the trigger to “SharePoint - when an item is created”. Navigate to your SharePoint List.

Then, create a “Start and wait for an approval” step. Here are the parameters. You need use to use dynamic data for this step.

Next, add a Condition. You can find more information on these here.

The idea is to update the SP item to APPROVE or REJECT depending on the manager approvals.

3/ Test the flow.

Let’s add a new vacation request in the SP list and see what happens.

The latest request goes directly to the manager, who can approve or reject through their email.

Assuming the manager approves, the SP list gets automatically updated.

🧮 STAGGERING STATISTICS
Facts, told through numbers

Percent of workers are aware of coming disruptions in their fields and are willing to reskill to remain competitively employed. Harvard Business Review

Percent of users who use Copilot that said they cannot go back to work without using CoPilot. Microsoft WorkLab

📰 TOP NEWS
News on AI, no-code, automation, and productivity

🔮 Chrome Unleashes AI: Tab Organization, Custom Themes & Writing Assistance!

Chrome's (M121) is introducing AI features to organize tabs, create personal themes, and aid in drafting texts online.

Why should I care?

⚖️AI Causes Chaos in Court with "Hallucinated" Legal Cases

A British Columbia lawyer unknowingly used AI-generated fake legal cases during a family trial, causing a stir in the Canadian legal system.

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🎥 Google's Lumiere AI Ushers in a New Era of Video Creation

Google introduces Lumiere, an AI that can create highly realistic video clips up to five seconds long based on text prompts.

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🤖 AI Rising, Yet Skill Gap & Privacy Concerns Prevail!

While AI adoption accelerates across various sectors for automation and security, gaps in relevant AI skillsets and data privacy concerns are slowing down the potential benefits.

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🖼 AI ART
Examples of great and trending AI art

UFOs and Aliens… (u/Narrow-Elk572 Reddit)

⚒ TOOL SNAPSHOTS
Futuristic tools for data management

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