How to manually start a flow, in OneDrive desktop ?

[Anonymous]

I would like your suggestion ...

I'm using Excel docs in Onedrive,

I wish that after making the changes to the file, I could manually start a Flow,

to send a message to a group of users

How can I do ?

Thanks for your help

[v-yuazh-msft]

Hi @ Luciano,

Could you please share more details about the "send a message to a group of users" that you mentioned?

What connector do you want to use to send a message to the group of users?

I would offer you a workaround about manually trigger a flow to send an email to a distribution group.

The screenshot of the flow as below:

The flow would run successfully to send the email to every member in the distribution group as below:

You could also send the massage from Slack or Microsoft Teams to achieve your needs.

Please feel free to contact me if your have any other questions.

Regards,
Alice Zhang

[Anonymous]

Hi

thanks for the reply

I state that I am at the beginning of the Flow study 

I had tried with "Manually trigger a flow", but I read that it is for mobile applications not for desktops.

I'm using One Drive to share files, from my desktop.

I do not understand where to find the "button" in the OneDrive environment

what I want to do:
. create a shared folder with other users in OneDrive
. insert in the excel file folder
. I grant editing permissions to each user

objective :
. when a user has changed the data in an excel sheet
he must communicate it, with an email to the other users, staying within the One Drive environment

Thanks

[v-yuazh-msft]

"Manually trigger a flow"

Hi @ Luciano,

The trigger "manually trigger a flow" also could be used in Microsoft flow web portal,so you could refer to my screenshot to create the flow.

The link of the web portal as below:

https://asia.flow.microsoft.com/en-us/

You could refer to link below to learn more about the microsoft flow:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/getting-started

Regards,
Alice Zhang

[Anonymous]

Hi Alice

I created the flow as suggested by you

but I still do not understand how users can, send it running, from within OneDrive

this is the work environment, hence I would like to start the flow manually

[Anonymous]

Hi Alice

I read some documentation on Flow ...
confirm that a 'Flow', during its operation, does not have
  the ability to interact with a user?

for example,

enter a step to request a user to enter a value

or to display a yes/no button

and then continue with the following steps

thanks