1. PowerApps and Flow Bill Feldker and Becky Bertram
St. Louis SharePoint User Group, December 2016

2. Becky Bertram Owner of Savvy Technical Solutions 8-time SharePoint MVP
Authored several Microsoft SharePoint exams
Co-authored Wrox book on SharePoint 2013
Wrote on-demand SharePoint Online training at Opsgility.com
Wife and mother of 3 kids, aged 5, 3, and 1

3. Bill Feldker
•Solutions Consultant at Valorem •18 years of developer experience •12 years of Microsoft SharePoint experience •Husband and Father of two boys 13 and 11

4. Mercantilism
An economic theory and practice that promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers. … With respect to its colonies, British mercantilism meant that the government and the merchants became partners with the goal of increasing political power and private wealth, to the exclusion of other empires. The government protected its merchants— and kept others out—through trade barriers, regulations, and subsidies to domestic industries in order to maximize exports from and minimize imports to the realm. (Wikipedia)

5. Free Market
A system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority. It is a result of a need being, then the need being met.

6. Old Microsoft: Mercantilism
Corporations must be heavily invested in the Microsoft platform
Products only play well with each other
e.g. SharePoint only runs on Windows Server using SQL Server

7. New Microsoft: Free Market
Interoperability with other platforms
Microsoft gets its money by being the clearinghouse through which other products are connected or hosted
e.g. Code is open-source, Microsoft joined the Linux foundation, Azure hosts Apache, Ubuntu, etc.

8. Connectors
Connectors are ways to connect a Microsoft product or service to an external service
Connectors used in Power BI, Office 365 Groups, PowerApps, and Flow

9. PowerApps
Becky Bertram

10. What is a PowerApp? Mobile-ready application
Phone- or tablet-centric
Viewed with a phone app or using a browser
Android, iPhone, GA; Windows Phone, Preview
Phone apps can utilize phone camera
Usually used to connect to other data sources
Microsoft products such as SharePoint and SQL Server
Cloud or on-prem using the On-premise Data Gateway
3rd party data sources (SalesForce, DropBox, Box.net, Slack, Pinterest, RSS, FTP)
Created “auto-magically” for you based on your data source
Some customization allowed
No actual programmability

11. PowerApps Studio Tool for creating and editing PowerApps
Available only Windows 10 desktop
Create.PowerApps.com in Beta

12. PowerApps Portal https://powerapps.Microsoft.com
Sign in with an organizational account
Manage:
PowerApps created by you or that have been shared with you for editing
Connections
On-premise gateways
Flows (starting from a PowerApp)
Common Data Service
Determine which environment you’re using

13. Demo
Creating a PowerApp the connects to SharePoint Online

14. On-Premise Data Gateway
Connections to internal on prem datasources – Non API
You can install the gateway installer (Server only)
Does not need to be on the same server as the data source
Currently only SharePoint and SQL Server are supported
Uses the Azure Service Bus for data transfer
Can’t be on a DC

15. Demo
Connecting to an on-premise SharePoint List using the Data Gateway

16. Management https://admin.powerapps.com Environments
Select region (immutable)
Can use the Common Data Model
Could be used for segments of your company, or for Dev/QA/Prod
Security
User roles
If using CDM, can also determine granular permissions
Data Policies
Determine which environment(s)
Restrict sharing of data between particular environments

17. Demo
Managing Your PowerApps Environments

18. Publishing and Sharing Your PowerApps
Share with individual users
Grant read or contributor access
Share with whole organization
Users with Contribute access will see it on the PowerApps Apps list
Users with Read access will see it on the Dynamics 365 homepage or in App Source (

19. Sharing an app
Using the PowerApps Portal and the Dynamics 365 Homepage

20. Microsoft Flow
Bill Feldker

21. What is Flow?
Microsoft offering to automate workflows between apps and services
Start from a template or create your own from scratch

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

23. The flow ecosystem

24. Templates There are hundreds of templates to choose from
Currently you cannot share your templates out
Sharing is supposed to be ready by the end of 2016
Sharing within your organization
Sharing with the general public

25. Service Connections
Different from PowerApps – not just connections to data, also actions and triggers

26. Flow in SharePoint

27. Included in context in SharePoint (online):

28. Triggers - SharePoint
Triggers

29. Actions - SharePoint
Actions

30. Actions - SharePoint
Actions – Dynamic Content

31. Connections

32. Connections
This is a list of your current connections in Flow

33. Custom API

34. Connecting your services to Flow
Flow is fully metadata-driven and extensible so you can connect to any of your own services
Even connect to 3rd party services you consume
Custom APIs within an organization
Scoped to a company so that you can build something that’s unique to that organization

35. Requirements for building a connector
HTTP Web API
Must Use Swagger to define your API
One of the standard forms of Auth:
API key
Basic
OAuth 2.0
APIs which have human-consumable contracts
For triggers:
Webhooks recommended
Polling available with some work

36. Custom Connectors with PowerApps

37. Flow Pricing

40. Flow Documentation

41. Documentation General Flow Information Custom API
Custom API
authentication-in-azure-active-directory

42. Demo

43. Questions?