The slides are from the UK Community Day Microsoft Flow hackathon. The day commence with several introductory sessions from MVPs and #SUGUK local regional leads, with guest appearance from the Microsoft Flow team.

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3. Microsoft Flow
Office 365
Hackathon
Friday 27th April 2018
ODI Leeds
3rd Floor, Munro House, Leeds, West
Yorkshire, LS9 8AG, Yorkshire, UK
http://ukcommunityday.com/

4. Agenda
• 09:00 Coffee and networking
• 09:20 Welcome & Introduction to Microsoft Flow
• 10:45 Break
• 11:00 Plan ideas and start building
• 12:45 Lunch
• 14:15 Hands-on Hacking and Mentoring
• 16:00 Surprise Guest
• 16:30 Present your work and win prizes
• 17:00 Finish

5. Introducing Microsoft Flow
• New workflow tool
• Aimed at Information Worker
• Self service
• Browser only
• Gluing together disparate systems
• Triggers, inputs, actions, conditions, branches, loops, output
• Centrally managed, DLP policy on data & connectors
Power BI PowerApps Microsoft Flow
Common
Data Service
Connectors
+ gateways

6. Orchestrate anything
• Connect on-premises,
hybrid and cloud
applications
• Run mission-critical,
complex integration
scenarios with ease
• Enhance business
productivity by automating
business processes
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-service-logic-gateway-connection/

7. Gartner’s Magic Quadrant:
Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service
(iPaaS)

8. Templates / Connectors
• Over a hundred useful templates
• 14 Approval workflow templates
• Visible on separate tab
• Connected data across apps
• Connectors & Gateways
• Custom APIs
• Built on Common Data Model
or integrated with existing systems

9. Flow roadmap (highlights)
• Spring Update (21st March 2018)
• Guides for debugging actions and conditions
• Support for GDPR compliance
• Additional functionality to support model-driven apps
• Deeper integration with Excel
• SharePoint – Request Sign-off
• Microsoft Teams – Flow tab, Flow bot
• To come:
• Use a HTML rich text editor to build emails
• Government cloud deployment
• Application lifecycle management (ALM )
• sandbox environments
• Move or Copy across environments
• Leverage device signals (e.g., Locations)
• Include Flows in AppSource
• Azure function integration

10. Demos

11. Delay Until
• Times out after 30 days
SharePoint Get
• Only gets the first ~5000 items
UI is not robust
• Often the scroll bar disappears
Start your Flow with care
• The first step is everything, and once you have created it you can't wind it
back. Or copy subsequent steps to a new Flow.
Sub Flow geometry
• Calling a Flow from another Flow counts as 2 runs.
• Calling a sub Flow from a Apply to All loop can generate hundreds of runs
and quickly use up your 2000 flows per person per month
Gotchas
Microsoft Flow and Large Lists - Part 1
Create Large Lists/Libraries using Microsoft Flow (no-code solution)
Microsoft Flow and Large Lists - Part 2
Iterate and get all items from a Large List/Library using Microsoft Flow (no-code solution)
Microsoft Flow and Large Lists - Part 3
Update all items in a large list/library using Microsoft Flow (no-code solution)

12. When should you use what?
Scenario Citizen integrator Ad-hoc
Integrator
Integration
Specialist
Personal automation
Team integration
DevOps
Adhoc lightweight integration projects
Important integration projects
Mission critical integration projects

13. A Message from the Flow Product Team
• Play the video!

14. Plan ideas and start building
• Work as individuals or in teams
• Ideas
• Expense approval
• Don’t ask for approval if user has no leave left
• IT Change Request process
• Get Technical experts, and CAB member
dynamically. Reject CR automatically if date has
passed.
• Remember presentations and prizes
are at the end of the day!!!

15. Getting Started
• Sign up – work or school account
• Getting started for free: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/
• Community Plan: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/communityplan/ - create flows in this environment via
PowerApps web service.
• Getting Started
• Flow Resource List: section: I’m a beginner on Flow, Help me get started:
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community-Blog/Flow-Resources-List/ba-p/101897
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/flow/guided-learning/
• https://www.youtube.com/
• In the long term:
• Flow Cookbook:
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Cookbook/bd-p/FlowCookbook
• Microsoft Flow and PowerApps sessions at Microsoft Ignite
https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sessions-ignite-2017/
• Follow the blog: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/
• Middleware Friday http://www.integrationusergroup.com/middleware-friday/ ,
Integration Monday http://www.integrationusergroup.com/past-events/
• Follow on Twitter: @MicrosoftFlow, Jon Levesque (@PNWAdventureGuy), Kent Weare (@wearsy)
Ahmad Najjar (@ahmadn82), Daniel Laskewitz (@laskewitz), John Liu (@johnliu),
Serge Luca (@sergeluca), Paul Culmsee (@paulculmsee), Pieter Veenstra (@PieterVeenstra),
Audrie Gordon (@ArtsyPowerApper)
• Join the community:
https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community/ct-p/FlowCommunity

16. Welcome back
• Hackathon

17. 16:00: Surprise Guests
• Merwan Hade (@merwanhade)
Senior Program Manager on the Microsoft Flow team
Formerly on the PowerApps and Azure Tools for
Visual Studio teams
• Kerem Yuceturk (@maychief)
Program Manager OneDrive & SharePoint team

18. 16:30 Presentations & Prizes

19. Thank you to our sponsors
who paid for today!