How can I get an Instant Flow to run that is NOT tied to a Sharepoint list/lib instance?

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I have an Instant Flow "Send MBPL list as CSV"

It is not tied to a particular Sharepoint list/lib item.

What I need is for my user to be able to trigger this Instant Cloud Flow from a URL -- Add it to their Useful Links list. But I cannot seem to find any way to do that.

Is there a URL I can construct with the WorkflowID that will do the same thing -- allow the user to trigger the flow from a URL?

Again, please no responses about putting row-level buttons on a Sharepoint list. This flow is pulling from multiple sources to create a single CSV file that is sent to the user. I just need to figure out how to connect the user to this flow.

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Pstork1 68,697 Most Valuable Professional on at

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There's no way to do a URL to invoke a flow with an Instant trigger. However, if you replace the trigger with "When an HTTP request is received" it will generate a URL that you can send an HTTP POST to which will invoke the flow. You can't bookmark a POST, so you would need to create a webform or something with a URL that would invoke the POST. You could also replace the trigger with a Power Apps trigger and then trigger the flow from Power Apps. A Power App can be called from a URL (deep linking). But I think you would still have to press the button to invoke the flow.

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Hi @MelissaReed

Try sticking /run after the path for your Flow as follows:

You can share a manual triggered flow with users as follows:

And they should get prompted to run the flow as seen in the first image. Please let me know if this works for you?

Please consider accepting my answer as a solution if it helps to solve your problem.

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Pstork1 68,697 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Interesting, I didn't know we could do that. For the record, when you are looking at the flow details page you can copy the URL, but have to remove /details from the end before adding /run. But it does work for flows with a manual trigger.

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MelissaReed 292 on at

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This works BRILLIANTLY. I cannot thank you enough. I have torn up the Googleverse searching for how to do just this one simple thing. No clue why it was so hard to find, but I'm so grateful you saw and took the time to answer my question!

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