Stephen Siciliano articles

Microsoft Flow Spring 2018 Update 

Today we are announcing a new type of flow: a Business process flow. These flows, based on the Common Data Service for Apps, define a set of steps for people to follow to take them to a desired outcome. We also have a number of new integrations coming, including a Flow add-in for Excel.

Browse the history of your approvals and other updates 

So far this month, we have released several new capabilities in Microsoft Flow. First, you can browse your Approval history — see all the approval requests you’ve sent out, including the responses, the comments that were sent, and the exact time they happened.

Gateway High Availability and increased limits for Apply to each 

You can now create highly available clusters of On-Premises Data Gateways, to ensure your organization can always access on-premises data used in Flow, and not be tied to a single machine that may go down.

Get notified when someone edits your flows and new expressions for working with URLs and Objects 

You can make your co-workers Owners of your flows to collaborate on edits. Now, you will get email notifications when another owner modifies one of your flows. We also are adding some new expressions to make it easier to work with URLs and Objects.

Work with your Office 365 profile, photos and more 

This month we have added a number of new actions to the Office 365 Users connector — update your profile and profile photos, including new fields like Projects and Skills. Second, there is a new connector – Infobip – a service that enables enterprise grade communication.

Improvements to the Outlook connectors and more 

This week we released several improvements to the Outlook connector, including saving an email as a “.eml” file, responding to calendar invitations automatically, and triggering flows when you are mentioned in an email thread.

Read and write Managed Metadata in SharePoint lists, append to arrays, and a new connector 

Starting this week you can now read data from, and write into, columns in SharePoint that use the Managed Metadata (aka. Taxonomy) type. You can now add items to the end of arrays using a new Append to array variable action.

Triggers for Microsoft Planner, actions for SharePoint attachments, and other connector improvements 

This week we are announcing that another top request from the community is now available: triggers for the Microsoft Planner connector. A second highly requested feature available this week is to work with Attachments in SharePoint lists.