CAUG Mar 2017

Getting Started with Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Flow

Intro - Platform roadmap from Ignite 2016: we need apps faster and cheaper!

PowerApps - successor to Infopath Forms

• From PowerApps in Two Minutes (+/-) video: "It is meant for line-of-business applications, solving specific problems. If you try to use it to build traditional mobile applications, you'll find it limited at best."
• Can leverage the Microsoft Common Data Model

• Introduction to Entities video
• requires Tier 2 Plan ($40/mo)

Flow - "codeless" automation akin to Zapier, IFTTT

• Microsoft Flow: List of supported services
• demo - CAUG "ATTENDING" email replies

Questions/Annoyances:

• Flow "Run now" announced in blog post isn't there (yet?). Using "Resubmit" instead.
• Can't delete or rename steps that other actions depend on.

Other notes:

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