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August 13, 2018
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Building a Modern SharePoint Solution: Part 9 – Starting a Microsoft Flow from a PowerApp

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This is the final post in my series of building a modern SharePoint Solution.  In this post, I will demonstrate starting a Microsoft Flow from a PowerApp.  There are many reason’s why you would want this, but the most often used would likely be to allow the user to update an entry, save it and hold off sending it until they have all the information in place.  There are alternatives of course; like having a Flow wait for a value to change, but I prefer the user experience a button submission gives you.  Special note: Because Flow doesn’t currently allow for multiple triggers for a flow, we won’t be able to use flow created in Part 9 of this series.  However, I do suggest you not remove not remove it because this allows multiple ways to kick off the WF.

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August 9, 2018
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Building a Modern SharePoint Solution: Part 8 – Sending a Tweet from Microsoft Flow

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In my previous post, I showed you how to set up multiple approvals in a workflow. This post is going to continue along the requirements I set out in part 1 of this series.  I’ll be walking through sending a tweet from a Microsoft Flow.  It’s pretty straightforward.  Microsoft even has it as a template I believe, but I still wanted to illustrate how to do it because this is actually part of a bigger flow and an item in a solution’s requirements.  We’ll be continuing on from where I left off in part 8 of this series, but the steps I have here can be picked up and added to any flow you will be working on.

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August 8, 2018
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Building a Modern SharePoint Solution: Part 7 – Creating a Multiple Approver Microsoft Flow

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In my previous post I showed how to set up a flow to execute manually and not on an add or change event.  I have a reason for that we will get to in a future post, but for today I am going to cover creating a multiple approver Microsoft Flow.  In our requirements we have both a project\event approver as well as a manager approver.  One thing you don’t see on the form, but was mentioned in the requirements is the need for communications to also approve.  This will be going to a generic account (for now) that anyone in the communications team can deal with.  The process is the flow will request approval from the project approver first, then the manager and finally communications cause they are not checking for content just grammar and such.  No sense including them until the other approvers are ok with the message.

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