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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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July 25, 2018
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Building a Modern SharePoint Solution: Part 6 – Create a Flow to be Started Manually

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Finally moving on to Microsoft Flow.  I really like Flow.  It’s a great replacement for the SharePoint Designer Workflow and in my opinion a strong competitor to 3rd party workflows.  Don’t get me wrong, those other tools are great and I have used them happily in the past, but so far Microsoft Flow has met all of my recent needs and already covered by the O365 license I have.  If I don’t have to spend extra or my client doesn’t either and Flow meets our needs, then to me that is a huge bonus.  In today’s post, I am going to illustrate how to create a workflow that does NOT fire when an item is added.  This is because, for the requirements of this solution, users will want to be able to save the item without a workflow being initiated.  So in other words, I am going to show how to create a Flow to be started manually.  This can be done from the list, or in a later post I will show how to do it from the PowerApp form itself.

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July 6, 2018
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Building a Modern SharePoint Solution: Part 4 – Setting a SharePoint People Picker Field Programmatically in PowerApps

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Continuing my series on building a modern SharePoint solution using PowerApps and Flow I want to show how to go about setting a SharePoint people picker field programmatically in PowerApps.  This goes back to one of the requirements listed for my solution in part 1 of this series: “Requestor’s manager should be auto-populated as an approver”.  What’s nice about this is the manager field is filled in already by the company’s administration system.  It exists in Azure AD and thus within Office 365, which just so happens to have a connector that easily allows us to build with it.  I am getting ahead of myself though.  Let’s dig in and learn how to do this.

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