HSPUG - PowerApps & Flow

PowerApps & Flow - Service Desk App

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reza.dorrani@catapultsystems.com
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About Me
Reza Dorrani
Managing Consultant / SharePoint Architect at
Catapult Systems

InfoPath
• Classic Forms Designer
• Form Filler and Form Publishing
• Custom Actions
• Integrated with SP lists
• Xml based
• Xpath Expressions
Cons
• Not mobile friendly
• In Extended Support until 2026
• No new investments in product from MSFT

Challenges in building Apps
• Cloud First, Mobile First
• Mobile development – cross platform + coding skills
• Data Sources – Cloud vs On-Prem
• Security and Single Sign On
• App Distribution
– IT Governance
– Sharing Apps

PowerApps
• PowerApps is a SaaS that lets you build business apps that run in a
browser or on a phone or tablet
• No coding experience is required.
• PowerApps combines visual drag-and-drop concepts from PowerPoint
with Excel-like expressions for logic and working with data.
• Lots of options for connecting to data via 200+ connectors
• Connects to data anywhere securely– Online or on-premise (using the
Data Gateway)
• Runs on any device (iOS, Android)
• Easy to deploy and Share
• Can be embedded in SharePoint page, Power BI report, Teams Tab etc.

PowerApps – SP list forms vs Standalone App
Customized SharePoint Forms
• Does not show up on Mobile App
• Not Optimized for Mobile
• Guess user access not permitted
Standalone Apps
• Start From Data or from a template
• Optimized from Mobile

PowerApps & SharePoint
• Connect to SP Data via connector
• SharePoint list embedded forms (similar to InfoPath)
• Create app from a SP list or create app from any of the available
templates
• PowerApps web part in SP pages (coming soon)
• Connect to On-Premise data using Data Gateway

PowerApps - Cons
• Customized SharePoint forms not available in Mobile App
• Web experience (phone/tablet view) – No responsive design
• Delegable data sources and functions – awareness
• 500 non-delegable limit on complex column types when filtering
(lookup, person or group)
• Upload files to SP Libraries
• Changing App Owners
• Custom Themes
• Custom App Icon Color
• SP web part ??

PowerApps Latest
• Attachments (add/delete/view)
• Multi value fields
• Rules panel
• Improved load time (Delayed Load)
• SP List forms customization
• SQL Views
• Offline Capabilities (save data to app)
• Non delegable rows fetched limit – 500 (up from 200)

Evolution - Workflow
Workflow
Manager

Flow
Get notifications Synchronize files Collect data Automate approvals
Microsoft Flow helps you work smarter by automating workflows across your
apps and services

Flow
• SaaS that helps you create automated workflows between your favorite
apps and services to synchronize files, get notifications, collect data, and
more.
• Rich Workflows connected to services with conditional logic
• Templates or start from scratch
• Simplified Version of Azure Logic Apps

Flow
Triggers
• Recurrence
• PowerApps
• On item create/update etc.
Actions
• Create item
• Send email
• Start approvals etc.

Flow
• Streamline business processes for data in SharePoint, Dynamics
365, Forms, SQL, etc.
• View sent and received requests in a unified approvals center
• Do approvals on the go from your phone or directly from your
inbox – Actionable Emails
• Customize to fit your business process:
– Sequential or hierarchical approvals
– Parallel approvals
– All Assigned Must Approve
• Re-submit failed flows
• Use buttons as triggers
• Get push notifications

Flow
• Scheduling – run a flow at a particular frequency, delay, delay until
• Expressions - perform simple, inline calculations like string manipulation
(e.g. substring, replace) or arithmetic (e.g. add, subtract, multiply)
• Control flow – switch-case, parallels, do until, apply to each, handle
timeouts and failures
• Nested workflows
• Variables and Compose for dynamic content
• Debugging made easy via Flow run history
• Error Handling capabilities (configure run after)

On-Premises Data Gateway
PowerApps, Flow and Power BI can utilize the data gateway to connect to
on premise data

On-Premises Data Gateway
• 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

Common Data Model
• Organizational database in the cloud
• Create Entities
• Create relationships between entities
• Use data across O365 services – PowerApps, PowerBI and Flow

Connectors
• Over 200 connectors available
• GA, Preview and Premium

Custom Connectors
• Create custom connectors
– Utilize graph api, use azure function
• Deploy connector to O365 tenant
– Use connector across O365 services – PowerApps, PowerBI and Flow

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