Updated Flow presentation for SPS Ottawa

1. WELCOME
SHAREPOINT SATURDAY OTTAWA
October 28, 2017

2. Thank you Sponsors!!
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3. Salon A
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4. Learn to go with the Flow
Tweet #OttawaAdam for
session Flow

5. @Racker_Adam
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Slides will be on SlideShare
Post #OttawaAdam if you want to see your
tweet in flow at the end of the session!

6. Some Slides from:
Stephen Siciliano
Principal Group PM Manager
Ignite session on advanced flow

8. Which Office 365 plans includes Microsoft Flow?
These Office 365 plans include 'Microsoft Flow for Office 365' plan:
Office 365 Business Essentials
Office 365 Business Premium
Office 365 Education
Office 365 Education Plus
Office 365 Enterprise E1
Office 365 Enterprise E3
Office 365 Enterprise E5

11. Triggers
Run manually based on user action
From dedicated Flow button
From other apps – PowerApps, SharePoint…
Run on a schedule
From every minute to 4am on Saturdays
Run based on an event that
happens in a cloud or on-prem
service
There are 174 connectors today!

12. Actions
Any number of steps that run after
the trigger
Connect to any cloud service or via
the on-prem data gateway
Connect to any HTTP endpoints if
there’s no out-of-box connector
Some actions may not even use
connections – just manipulate data
locally

13. Flowing data
Data ‘flows’ from each step and is
available for all later steps
Use Add Dynamic Content to
select outputs from previous steps
Certain outputs show up based on the
types of the inputs and outputs

14. Using expressions
Many reasons to use
expressions:
Convert types
Perform simple, inline calculations
like string manipulation or arithmetic,
or date/time manipulation
Generate data like the current
time, a GUID or a random number
Handling optional values
“If” conditional statements
Working with lists

15. How to create expressions
Add Dynamic Content
Action name
replace(…)

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Anatomy of an expression

17. Data types and formats
Text – aka Strings
Normal – 'Example string'
Email, URL, phone number, etc…
Base64
Binary content
Data URI
URI component
Floating-point number – 9.0
Integer number – 137
Boolean – true or false
Array – a list of items
Object – a record with key-value pairs
XML content

18. Handling content conversion
• Some conversion is automatic
• In some cases, a conversion
expression is automatically added
by the UI
• Other conversions you’ll need to
author an expression for directly
 The expression is named for the destination
type
 For example to convert to base 64, use the
base64() expression

19. Yes
Yes
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No No No Logic
apps only

20. Working with strings
• Combine strings together with
concat()
• Take a substring – like LEFT() in
Excel
• Replace certain parts of a string
• Convert casing with toLower() or
toUpper()
• Find the location of text, or if it starts
with or ends with certain text

21. Arithmetic
Unlike Excel you cannot currently
use the arithmetic operators you
expect like +, -, *, /
Instead you’ll use expressions
For example to say X + Y * Z
You would write add(X,mul(Y,Z))

22. Date and time
• addToTime() to add times
together
• convertTimeZone() to handle
local times
• formatDateTime() for displaying
in emails
• dayOfWeek() to extract specific
date segments

23. Expressions in conditions
1. First, build what you can in the simple
mode
2. Then select Edit in advanced mode
3. Finally, enter the expression – use
any of the Boolean expressions
NOTE: Unlike in Add Dynamic Content, you must
begin with the @ character

24. Demos!

25. What’s happened in the last six months?
 New modernized approval experiences
 Trigger flows from physical buttons
 ‘Diet’ designer and new getting started experiences
 Team flows general availability
 Trigger buttons from widgets on iOS or Android
 Control-flow improvements like parallels and error handling
 Manage flows, licenses, quotas in the Admin center
 SharePoint Document library integration
 Windows Phone Support
 Convert the columns for tables or lists
 Build and submit your own connectors
 New Community Plan and Office 365 F1 Plan
 Dozens of new connectors
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Microsoft Flow roadmap - highlights
H2 Calendar 2017 Calendar 2018
oExport/import Flows across environments
o“In-the-box” review Flows for SharePoint Online
oUse Flow for Content Publishing approvals for
SharePoint Online Publishing sites
oUtilize people, choice, attachment and multi-
values in your Flows for SharePoint Online
oIn-context Flow support in Dynamics 365,
OneDrive and Teams
oUsage analytics for Flows
oFlow activity included in Office 365 audit logs
oUK deployment
oUse a HTML rich text editor to build emails
oGuides for debugging actions and conditions
oGovernment cloud deployment
oALM – Sandbox environments
oALM – Move or copy across environments
oSupport for GDPR compliance
oLeverage device signals (e.g. Location) with Flows on
mobile devices
oInclude Flows in AppSource
oAzure functions integration

27. Thank you Sponsors!!
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28. Salon A
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