Your First Flow

Before opening the designer, write down three things in plain language: the exact trigger event, the desired end result, and every system involved. For a common starter flow like "notify the team when a high-priority SharePoint list item is created," this means identifying the SharePoint site and list, the condition that defines "high-priority," and the Teams channel that should receive the notification, so the build maps directly onto that plan instead of being assembled ad hoc.

From make.powerautomate.com, choose Create, then Automated cloud flow, search for and select the "When an item is created" SharePoint trigger, and specify the site address and list name. Add a Condition action checking whether the Priority column dynamic content equals "High," and inside the Yes branch add a Teams "Post message in a chat or channel" action, using dynamic content to pull the item's Title and Created By fields directly into the message text.

Click Save in the top-right corner to store the flow; the flow checker will flag any incomplete required fields before it lets you save. Use Test, then "Manually," and either create a real SharePoint item or supply sample trigger data to trace a full run through Run history. Once a run completes successfully end to end, the flow's toggle switches to On automatically, and from then on it fires in the background every time a matching SharePoint item is created, with no further action needed from you.