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Going with the Microsoft Flow
SharePoint Saturday Silicon Valley 2016
by: Jennifer Pearcey
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Introduction
Jennifer Pearcey
MCP : SharePoint 2013
23 years experience in IT, architecture, development and design
14 years in SharePoint
Born Sweet under the great Sugar Maple
Raised Strong on the wide open frozen tundra of the Saskatchewan Prairies
Living Aloha : in the great 808 Sharing the love that is SharePoint
Occasionally referred to as a SharePoint proctologist
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-pearcey-09603617 @PCMOM03
What Is Microsoft Flow?
Automation of workflows across the growing number of applications and services utilizing IFTTT SaaS implementation
Hosted on Azure App service, Flows automate workflow across apps and services. i.e. Get notifications, Sync files, collect data and automate approvals
Connecting services and data using available templates or create your own Flows
Released in alignment with #FutureOfSharePoint campaign
Not officially announced as the Designer replacement for Workflow
Lists (currently) and Library (coming soon) SharePoint integration
On prem connector coming soon
Citizen developers, you can now officially get excited!!
Free sign up
Connect Cloud Serviceshttps://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/services/
Flow Templateshttps://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/
Connect to Apps
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Visual Designer
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DemoSharePoint List vs OneDrive for Business
Failures & Successes
PowerApp & PowerAppDesktop
Connects to the cloud services and data sources you're already using
Gives business analysts and specialists the ability to quickly build apps that suit their specific needs
No code required or struggling with integration issues to connect data
Apps can be published instantly to co-workers across web, tablets and mobile devices without waiting for app stores.
PowerApps also integrates with Microsoft Flow, making it possible to trigger flows from within apps.
IT Pro and Other Roles
Lifecycle management
Deployment management
PowerApp connector to access local SharePoint (coming soon)
API development and management
Manage Azure App Service as well as Office 365
Azure Logic Apps for more complex integration Azure Resource Manager, Azure Portal and Azure CLI, VS
Citizen developers
Cloud service broker
Developer
Pros and Cons
Pros
Easily create cross site or cross tenant Flows
Cross application Flows :
Templates : Leverage or Build
Recurring Flows :
User Profile Properties
Cons
Public Preview mode
Its personal; actions are ran using your connections including any created items, emails send are using your credentials
Cannot trigger a secondary Flow from the primary Flow
Reordering of steps not possible; requires deleting and recreating to insert another step
Error on Twitter REST API max connections (by app, not user)
Refresh Data SourcesPowerBI Desktop and PowerBI WebREF: https://app.powerbi.com
References
FlowREF: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/
PowerApps PreviewREF: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/
MicrosoftFlow and PowerApp public preview announcementREF: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-microsoft-flow-and-announcing-the-public-preview-of-powerapps/
Logic Apps (Also in preview at this time)https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/logic/
Office 365 Dev 1 year FREE Office Development tenanthttp://dev.office.com/getting-started
Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices REF: http://aka.ms/OfficeDevPnPBONUS REF: https://docs.com/OfficeDevPnP
Refresh a dataset created from PowerBI DesktopREF: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-refresh-desktop-file-onedrive/BONUS REF: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-refresh-data/
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