Power Platform Prompts for Microsoft 365 Copilot

Leveraging Microsoft 365 Copilot for Power Platform is a game-changer for citizen developers who may not have extensive coding experience. Extending licenses to your citizen developers empowers them to create simple automations, apps, and dashboards because they can use prompts to guide them step-by-step through the process. Making Power Platform more accessible and intuitive means you can free up your Center of Excellence to focus on developing more complex automations and business-critical applications and dashboards.

When you integrate Microsoft 365 Copilot into their flow of work, you enable a broader audience to innovate and solve business challenges efficiently and with confidence. This democratization of technology fosters innovation and productivity, allowing everyone to contribute to digital transformation efforts.

Here are some sample prompts for Power Platform so you can see for yourself just how accurate the instructions are. Feel free to share at your next Copilot Champions meeting.

Power Automate prompts

Give me step-by-step instructions on how to create a Power Automate flow that…

1. sends an email notification when a new item is added to a SharePoint list
2. sends a reminder email to a user (named in a person field) when a task is due in a SharePoint list
3. sends a reminder email to a user (named in a person field) when a task is due in a SharePoint list using a filtered view that shows tasks due today
4. routes a document for approval to a single approver (displayed in the assigned to person field) and sends a notification to the requestor (use created by field) upon approval or rejection
5. synchronizes data between two SharePoint lists

Power Apps prompts

Give me step-by-step instructions on how to create a Power Apps form that…

1. allows users to enter data into a single SharePoint list
2. displays a SharePoint list with basic search functionality
3. includes basic validation for email and phone number fields and allows users to submit a list item and track its status
4. allows users to register for events and view event details. Include a home screen, an event details screen, and a registration screen and include a way to navigate between the screens and validate that all the required fields are filled out before submission.

Power BI prompts

Give me step-by-step instructions on how to create a Power BI dashboard that…

1. displays data from a single SharePoint list with basic visualizations like bar charts and pie charts
2. displays information from a SharePoint list with basic filtering options
3. displays the status of multiple projects from a SharePoint list with a table visualization and conditional formatting to highlight overdue projects in red (using an existing filtered view). Enable drillthrough to allow users to click on a data point and see detailed information and customize tooltips to show additional information when users hover over a data point