1. Becky Bertram January 21, 2017 SharePoint Saturday St. Louis
PowerApps and Flow
Becky Bertram
January 21, 2017
SharePoint Saturday St. Louis

2. About Me Owner of Savvy Technical Solutions 8x SharePoint MVP
Co-author of Wrox’s SharePont Six-in-One
Authored several Microsoft professional exams
Microsoft Certified Trainer alum
Instructor of online Office 365 courseware at Opsgility
Wife and mother of 3 kids, aged 5, 3, and 1
Hobbies: yelling “don’t make me pull this car over”, cleaning marker off the walls
@beckybertram

3. Agenda Introduction to PowerApps
Connectors and On-Premise Data Gateway
PowerApps Administration and the Common Data Service
Publishing and Sharing Your Apps
Microsoft Flow
Licensing

4. Introduction to PowerApps

5. 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
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
You can connect to MS products in the cloud or on-prem with the Data Gateway

6. PowerApps Studio Tool for creating and editing PowerApps
Available only Windows 10 desktop
web-based creation tool

7. 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

8. Connectors

9. 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

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

11. Custom API
Possible to create your own custom end-point and connect to it. Uses a “Swagger” file and requires authentication component.

12. Demo
Creating a PowerApp the connects to SharePoint Online

13. 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

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

15. 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 CDS, can also determine granular permissions
Data Policies
Determine which environment(s)
Restrict sharing of data between particular environments

16. Demo
Managing Your PowerApps Environments

17. Publishing and Sharing Your PowerApps
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 (
Share with individual users
Grant read or contributor access
Share with whole organization

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

19. Microsoft Flow

20. What is Flow? Workflow tool http://flow.microsoft.com
Start from a template or create your own from scratch
“If/then” type engine:
Triggers
Actions

21. Integrated with SPO

22. SharePoint-related Actions

23. Plans
PowerApps for Office 365 and Dynamics 365: more or less “free” add-on for existing 365 customers
PowerApps Plan 1
Includes use of the Common Data Service
Includes premium connectors
Unlimited custom APIs
PowerApps Plan 2
Includes data modeling and creation of databases in the Common Data Services
Includes data policy management

24. Questions?