 So as you know we produce a video on YouTube every week and that results in a lot of footage and it's a collaborative effort so we run into the problem of what do we do with all the footage. We knew we couldn't email the footage back and forth with each other because one the files are way too big to be emailed and two it would be a nightmare to manage them in Outlook. To solve the problem I created a folder in OneDrive and then I shared that folder with our marketing director Seth who helps us make these videos. However that created a new problem which was whenever one person would upload a file to this shared folder the other person wouldn't know about it. So it became a two-step process. One to upload the file and then two to make sure the other person knows about it. Seth I uploaded the files. What? I uploaded the files. What? Tragic. The answer of course was to use flow and just like with Outlook you can create rules to have messages based on custom criteria automatically perform specific actions but instead of doing it in Just Outlook you're doing it across multiple Office 365 applications. My criteria is that whenever a new file is uploaded into this specific OneDrive folder an email is automatically sent to Seth and myself. First I logged into the Office 365 portal and selected the flow application. I then selected the create flow from template button. As you can see there are a lot of templates that each do a specific action. Use the search bar to type in keywords to narrow down your search. Send an Outlook email for files created in OneDrive for business. This is the rule I'm looking for. Now I can drill down to the folder I want and then choose the recipients of the email. I can also customize what information the email will include. Click save to start the rule. So there you have it. By using flow we were able to create a task that automatically notified us through email whenever something was uploaded in that shared folder. The generating email is just one thing that flow can do. As you saw there are hundreds and hundreds of tasks for you to choose from. If you don't find a task already in the custom templates you can go ahead and create a template of your own. If you'd like to get a notification the next time we upload a video click the subscribe button. And thank you to our clients whose support allows us to make these videos.