Power Automate | Steps to manually trigger a flow from a SharePoint Library OR List

Introduction:

In this blog, we will learn how we can manually trigger a Power Automate workflow on any SharePoint List Item or Document. The flow will be triggered whenever the user needs any action to be carried out.

Following are the detailed steps to create a flow. 

Step 1:  Create a new flow by clicking Create and select Instant flow. The instant flows are the one those are manually triggered.

 

Step 2:  Provide a name to the Flow and specify the trigger action you want to carry out. For the given example, we have chosen for a selected file trigger for a SharePoint file.

Step 3:  For the Action, mention the Site Address and Library Name where you want the Flow to be executed.

                             

Step 4:  Select an action you want to perform for the Flow and then Save it. For this example, we have added a Send an email action along with it. So it would send a mail every time the flow runs.

                                                     

Now, to execute the flow through SharePoint Library, Follow the below steps for a selected file.

Go to the SharePoint Library you've mentioned while creating the Flow.

Step 1:  Click the Ellipse button on any file in Library.

                  

Step 2:  Select Automate and select the flow that we've created.

                                        

Step 3: Select Run Flow.

 

If you have any questions you can reach out our SharePoint Consulting team here.