7 reasons to use child flows in Power Automate

Pieter Veenstra explains why you should always use child flows.

For a while I developed my flows, by creating large flows that do whatever is needed. Then I started looking at creating items in for example a SharePoint list that would then trigger a child flow. But ever since Microsoft introduced Child Flows, I’ve liked to use them as much as i can.

[1]https://sharepains.com/2021/10/12/7-reasons-child-flows-in-power-automate/
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