SPS London 2017 - Building applications with PowerApps, Microsoft flow and Office 365
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The document provides an overview of Ahmad Najjar's expertise in building applications using Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Flow, and Office 365, highlighting his 13 years of SharePoint experience and passion for business automation. It outlines the functionalities of Microsoft Flow and Power Apps in automating workflows and creating custom business applications that integrate with various data sources, including SharePoint and other services. The document also discusses the extensibility of SharePoint with Power Apps and Flow, detailing their supported features and enterprise-scale deployment considerations.
SPS London 2017 - Building applications with PowerApps, Microsoft flow and Office 365
- 1. Ahmad Najjar Building Applications with Power Apps, Microsoft Flow and Office 365
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- 3. About Me • Senior Consultant at Infoworker. • SPS Oslo Organizers Committee. • Passionate and enthusiastic developer, heart and soul. • +13 years of experience in SharePoint. • Business-Tech focused: • PowerApps. • Microsoft Flow. • Logic Apps. • Power BI. • Azure Machine Learning. @ahmadn82 http://goo.gl/mezU5r
- 4. You are all Invited! NOOO! I’m your father
- 6. Most business automation challenges today are met with a single solution
- 7. You
- 10. Microsoft Flow helps you work smarter by automating workflow across your apps and services Get notifications Synchronize files Collect data Automate approvals
- 12. Get started quickly with over a hundred useful templates
- 13. Integrate the systems you’re already using… even custom APIs.
- 14. 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) Creating and Managing
- 15. 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
- 19. What about every other need your business faces?
- 20. Connect to data & systems you’re already using; create the data you need Microsoft PowerApps is a service for creating and using custom business apps across platforms Create apps, forms, and workflows without writing code Use apps on web and mobile
- 21. Quickly generate and customize apps based on Excel files, SharePoint Online lists, Salesforce records and more. You can even connect custom APIs. Even connecting to data in your on premise systems through a common Data Gateway. Your apps will be able to fully interact with underlying sources and will respect the permissions you’ve already established in them. Connect to the systems you’re already using
- 22. Get apps to your team when and where they’re needed, whether that’s on the web, Windows, iOS or Android—no app store required. Publish apps instantly for web and mobile
- 23. Where is SharePoint in all this?
- 25. SharePoint scenarios • 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)
- 26. Supported Read Features Text Number Currency Yes/No Person (One Only) Date and Time Lookup Hyperlink Choice Managed metadata
- 27. Text Number Currency Yes/No Person (One Only) Date and Time Lookup Hyperlink Choice Managed metadata Supported Write Features
- 28. Office 365 extensibility SharePoint Modern List integration with PowerApps and Microsoft Flow
- 29. • When you build your SharePoint solutions you can now leverage PowerApps • User PowerApps form(s) as an input form for SharePoint (e.g. List). • View, Sort and filter SharePoint list data. • SharePoint will work as a data backend. SharePoint scenarios
- 30. Supported Read/Write Features Text Number Currency Yes/No Person (One Only) Date and Time Lookup Hyperlink Choice Managed metadata
- 31. Supported Filter Operations Filter Sort Sort by Column Lookup Search
- 34. Enterprise Readiness of Flow 1.Common Data Platform Environments Data Loss Prevention Policies Flow Sharing and Collaboration App Source Localization (42 languages)
- 35. 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
- 36. 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
- 37. 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) …
- 38. Who are the audiences for Flow and Logic apps? Flow Focus: Business Users & Specialists Logic apps Focus: IT Pro / Developers
- 39. Demo Go with the Flow
- 40. Demo In the context of SharePoint
- 42. Demo All pieces are falling in place!
- 44. Questions
Editor's Notes
- #13: You can build out templates for your own scenarios You can share out these templates with anyone in the public
- #25: Successor to SharePoint Designer … Getting there!
- #29: Successor to Infopath … List form customization
- #35: App Source (Make flows available to others inside of an organization for consumption)
- #38: Considering all this: You can’t look at SharePoint or when you approach any other cloud platform, independently or in isolation of the other platforms, rather than this you have to have a comprehensive view of all, look at these utilities as a whole. The SharePoint story! SharePoint is a service rather than a platform.
- #40: Exploring Microsoft Flow (Templates, menu, flows, gateways, etc…) Get notification on important e-mails Get notified on special hashtags
- #41: Save e-mail attachments to a document library Vacations approval workflow Parallel approvals Document approval workflow
- #42: Showing the web and studio CDM Calling Flow from PowerApps Add items from PowerApps form to the vacation list Show PowerApps forms capability (Ready Demos)
- #43: Add a vacation to the list Initiate a workflow Approval process Add to the calendar Wait until vacation, then post on yammer
- #44: Mobile Buttons Mobile Experience The cherry on top of the cupcake Take a picture of the audience Process the photo in PowerApps Add it to SharePoint And post it to Facebook and Twitter SPS Oslo rating app