PowerApps and Flow – Kislay Sinha

This post is written as step 2 that is strategy. Step that is planning can be read here SharePoint 2013 migration to Office 365 step by step – Planning #SharePoint #Office365

Once we have filled in the excel template and also found out all issues via SharePoint Migration assessment Tool we need to formulate a strategy to find solution to issues and customizations.

As an outcome of the first step you should have a list of categorization of issues / customizations for which you need to strategize. I am listing down some if it, note that these are just examples and it totally depends on what you have done in your farm before and how much customizations have been done.

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For more reading about above topics and in text format use below link to download an excel Customization / Issues Categorization

Note that any solution will be based on what kind of Office 365 license you have, whether your organization will have PowerApps or Flow or not? Also whether you will have SharePoint Add-in model in place or not

If you have any questions with specific customization solution you can ask in comment section and I will try my best to provide a solution to that.

After we define a strategy for customizations we need to find a strategy to migrate data from On-premise to Office 365. This will be our third step and we will define that in next post. Before we do data migration it’s important to list down how many Web Applications we have, size of Content Databases.

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Microsoft PoweApps and Flow can work together so let’s see an example and how they can be applied together.

We have already seen how to create an Microsoft Flow in another blog post Microsoft Flow – Create from blank and also how to create a simple PowerApp in this blog PowerApps first look! Create a simple PowerApp .

Process of attaching a Flow with PowerApps is a bit different, creating a flow is kind of same as before, you can create a Flow from blank but this time you can do it from PowerApps URL https://web.powerapps.com/ , look for Flows in left menu and create a Flow with option “Create from blank”. Since we have already dealt with this topic, I have already created a Flow just remember that Flow should be created from PowerApps site else it will not show up.

Here are some screen shots how you need to do, we are using the ApproveClaim list we created in earlier post and idea is to create a PowerApp to add item using the Flow.

createblankflowpowerapp — Create MS Flow from Blank in PowerApps

powerappflow — Enter Flow name and Click New step

powerappflowaddaction — Add an action, what we will do to allow user to make entry in list item

powerappflowcreateitem — Select the trigger that is SharePoint – Create item

askpowerapps — Enter SharePoint URL and select the List name, After that al fields will show up, click in the text box and in Advanced section select “Ask in PowerApps”

powerappfilleditems — After selection it’s done and click Create Flow

savedflow — Once Saved Flow will be visible in Flow section

Once the Flow is created, we will start creating the PowerApp, since we want to Add a Flow to PowerApp we need to use Visual Studio on Windows and not the web version. Option to add Flow is not available in web version.

So go the Studio, Click New and create App from Blank with Phone Layout.

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Once selected open canvas will be opened and using Insert tab Add three TextInput and button as well onselect

Now we can add the Flow, select the button and in Action tab select “Flows”, it will show the available Flows. Select the Flow and add for this button

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Once added it will be shown as below, note that we have to add 3 Textboxes as we have 3 inputs in our Flow. Most important is that we need to enter formula for OnSelect event for the button, basically we need to enter 3 parameters for the Run method which are our text boxes and property is Text.

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Once done Save the PowerApp with proper name in The Cloud. It will be available on web under Apps section

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Now you can run it and input the text fields and click button, this will save the item to the List ApproveClaim

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So that’s it in this post we have seen how we can create a Flow and associate it in a PowerApp. Our example is quite simple we use the Flow to create an item but you can understand how easily it can satisfy different business needs to implement various bussiness logic.