SPS Brno 2017 - Go with the Microsoft flow
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Ahmad Najjar, a senior consultant with over 13 years of experience in SharePoint, discusses the capabilities and benefits of Microsoft Flow for automating workflows across various applications and services. The document highlights features such as user-friendly templates, integration with PowerApps, and the ability to enhance SharePoint solutions by leveraging Microsoft Flow. Additionally, it touches on enterprise readiness, including data platforms, environment management, and custom integrations.
SPS Brno 2017 - Go with the Microsoft flow
- 1. Go with the Microsoft Flow Ahmad Najjar
- 2. Big Thanks to …♥
- 3. Stay Active & Keep Tweeting! @SPSBrno #SPSBrno
- 4. 10. 06. 2017 Ahmad Najjar| EN Infoworker WHO I AM? INTRODUCTION ⁞ Ahmad Najjar, Oslo, Norway ⁞ Senior Consultant @ Infoworker ⁞ Passionate and enthusiastic developer, heart and soul ⁞ +13 years of experience in SharePoint ⁞ Business-Tech focused: ⁞ Nintex. ⁞ PowerApps. ⁞ Microsoft Flow. ⁞ Logic Apps. ⁞ Power BI. ⁞ Azure Machine Learning. ⁞ SPS Oslo Co-organizers @ahmadn82
- 5. NOOO!
- 7. Most business automation challenges today are met with a single solution
- 8. You
- 10. Microsoft Flow helps you work smarter by automating workflow across your apps and services Get notifications Synchronize files Collect data Automate approvals
- 11. Get started quickly with over a hundred useful templates
- 13. Build your own flows in an easy to use visual designer Sending an Exchange email when a new file is added in Dropbox Authenticate to your O365 account. Build email Subject and Body Choose to include properties from previous step (Dropbox file) to improve relevance Specify Send To email address and additional properties (optional): From, CC, BCC and ImportanceConnected to johnsharp@contoso.com Authenticate to your Dropbox account. Select folder to monitor PowerApps
- 14. Integrate the systems you’re already using… even custom APIs.
- 15. • Exploring Microsoft Flow • Our very first workflow! Demo
- 16. 10. 06. 2017 Ahmad Najjar| EN Infoworker Enterprise Readiness of Flow 1.Common Data Platform Environments Data Loss Prevention Policies Flow Sharing and Collaboration App Source Localization (42 languages)
- 17. 10. 06. 2017 Name Surname | EN Company name Environments Isolated spaces where Flows/Data are running/stored • HR, Marketing, Development, Test, UAT, Production… Different rules • E.g. Marketing can use Twitter but, Legal can’t Different regions if needed
- 18. 10. 06. 2017 Name Surname | EN Company name b Contoso Australia Apps Flows CDM Deployment environments Support for environments to enable enterprise scale out and improved manageability b Contoso Canada Contoso Corp. b Contoso Australia Apps Flows CDM b Contoso Australia Apps Flows CDM Contoso Australia Apps Flows CDM b Contoso Australia Apps Flows CDM Contoso Canada Apps Flows CDM b Contoso Australia Apps Flows CDM Contoso Canada b Contoso Australia Apps Flows CDM Contoso USA Apps Flows CDM
- 19. Where is SharePoint in all this?
- 20. 10. 06. 2017 Ahmad Najjar | EN Infoworker Office 365 Extensibility
- 21. • When you build your SharePoint solutions you can now leverage Microsoft Flow • Microsoft Flow can pull in data from external services into SharePoint lists or document libraries • Can also be used for automation on top of SharePoint content like list items or documents (e.g. when an item is added to a list, do something) SharePoint Scenarios
- 25. 10. 06. 2017 Ahmad Najjar| EN Infoworker Creating and managing Flow Microsoft Account (free) or Office 365 or Dynamics 365 or Flow (paid) or PowerApps ( or free new PowerApps Community Plan) Flow.microsoft.com Powerapps.microsoft.com A modern SharePoint Online list Mobile app (iOS and Android, Windows Mobile is coming)
- 26. Packaging for PowerApps & Microsoft Flow • • • Microsoft Flow for Office 365 Enterprise Edition Plan 2 Enterprise Edition Plan 1 Business Edition Plan Microsoft Flow PowerApps Microsoft Flow PowerApps PowerApps for Office 365 Microsoft Flow for Dynamics 365 PowerApps for Dynamics 365
- 27. 10. 06. 2017 Ahmad Najjar | EN Infoworker On-prem Capabilities
- 28. 10. 06. 2017 Name Surname | EN Company name Extensibility: Communicating with the outside (On Demand) PowerApps Custom app (Action Request) Power BI (Data Alerts) Flow to the Outside • Custom Connector (REST API described in a Swagger) • Action HTTP
- 29. BAM! More Demos
- 30. 10. 06. 2017 Ahmad Najjar | EN Infoworker Approval Roadmap
- 31. 10. 06. 2017 Ahmad Najjar| EN Infoworker The Common Data Platform Operational data store Common Data Model and custom entities Real time sync Data API Built-in platform for extending your existing Dynamics 365 & Office 365 data
- 32. Build modern business apps fast Compose analytics, user experiences, and automation using an integrated set of services from Microsoft More efficient developers Seamlessly extend capabilities for power users and leverage powerful Azure platform services Business application platform innovation Empowered power users People who understand their business needs best can now build apps quickly without writing code Connected data across apps Whether built on the Common Data Model or integrated with existing systems, get more value from your data App Services Service Fabric Azure Functions … Logic Apps API Management BizTalk … SQL Server BI Data analytics Internet of Things (IoT) …
- 33. 10. 06. 2017 Ahmad Najjar| EN Infoworker Building out your solutions ⁞ Microsoft Flow enables your employees and co-workers to build out solutions more easily. ⁞ With the lower threshold, the volume of solutions you’ll be able to build increases! ⁞ Build your solutions for SharePoint, Dynamics and more with Microsoft Flow directly ⁞ Logic apps are a great opportunity for you to build more powerful solutions ⁞ You can use a Flow as a starting point and then grow that up into a full Logic app solution.
- 34. 10. 06. 2017 Ahmad Najjar| EN Infoworker For Advanced Scenarios Join Me!
- 35. Get started at flow.microsoft.com
- 36. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS
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Editor's Notes
- #16: Exploring Microsoft Flow (Templates, menu, flows, gateways, etc…) Get notification on important e-mails Get notified on special hashtags
- #17: App Source (Make flows available to others inside of an organization for consumption)
- #24: Successor for SharePoint Designer workflows Show how it is a part of modern lists Get notification on item updated SPS Expenses
- #28: Install the « on Premises data gateway » shared between PowerBI, PowerApps and Azure Logic Apps Install from PowerApps Portal Manage on the gateway Upgrades and replaces PowerBI gateway (if present) Sign in to register Build connections Consume from your business apps
- #29: Postman demo Flow calling Azure function Or Flow calling an API https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/custom-web-api-as-custom-api/ https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/call-flow-restapi/
- #30: Show PowerApps Vacations approval workflow Parallel approvals Document approval workflow Mobile Experience (Flow Buttons) – mention physical flow buttons