If you're using Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flows) in your business, you may like to add SMS as an action to your workflows.
Now, there are a couple of little things we need to address before we do this:
- You'll need to create the SMS for Power Automate API connection first - this article can show you how to do that.
- The very first time you add the SMS action to a flow, you'll be asked to provide API credentials for your messaging provider. To create a new API key and secret, just follow the steps in this article and save your API key and secret somewhere safe until you're prompted to input the API credentials. You'll only need to do this once, and we'll touch on this in Step 5 below.
Adding the SMS Action to a Workflow
1. Open Power Automate and go to My Flows, then you can either create a New Flow, or you can click on an existing workflow name and click Edit:
2. From within the flow, choose where you want to add the SMS action and click on New step:
3. Select the Custom tab and click on the SMS for Power Automate connector:
4. Then click the Send SMS action:
5. Now, remember the API credentials we mentioned at the beginning of the article? So the very first time you add the Send SMS action to a workflow, here is when you'll be asked to enter the API key and API secret:
Like we said though, you'll only need to do this once per account you would like to use.
6. Next, in the message configurator, select your Messaging Service from the dropdown and enter the details of your message in the To and Message fields:
7. When you've finished configuring your workflow just click Save and you're done, and remember to test out your flow to make sure you receive the SMS and everything is set up properly.
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