Stephen Siciliano articles

Nine new connectors in April and improved visibility into trigger failures 

You can now see problems with triggers on the flow properties page — making it easy to find out why your flow isn’t triggering. There are nine new connectors this month including Microsoft Forms Pro.

April 2019 Release launches with new features for Microsoft Flow 

Microsoft Flow’s April 2019 Release offers better integration, new AI-enabled experiences and more to enhance productivity across business applications. Learn about the major capabilities that will be coming to Microsoft Flow between April and September 2019.

Microsoft Flow is integrated in Azure IoT Central and more 

You can now use Microsoft Flow to create flows inside of Azure IoT central. There are two new connectors: Azure Key Vault and MobilyWS, and you can distribute connector traffic across multiple on-premises gateways. We have also improved the Flow checker and the rich text editor in the Flow designer.

Adaptive cards for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Flow US Government now available 

There is a new action for Microsoft Teams that posts an adaptive card to a channel. Microsoft Flow US Government is generally available, which supports compliance with US government requirements for cloud services. In addition, there are six new connectors available this month and we have streamlined the creation experience for business process flows.

Build more powerful conditions in flows and more 

Use a new advanced condition builder to have conditional logic based on And / Or statements in a flow. Peek into the JSON code of actions in the Microsoft Flow designer.

Generate Word documents in your flows 

The new Word Online (Business) connector lets you work with Word files in document libraries supported by Microsoft Graph to generate files from templates and create PDF versions of files.

January connector improvements and new releases 

This week we have improvements to the Microsoft Flow and PowerApps connectors for Microsoft Planner and Office 365 Outlook, as well as two new connectors: Ally and TxtSync.

Filter resources in the Flow portal, SharePoint page approvals, and two new connectors 

The pages in the Flow portal, including the flow list, now support filtering to find items in the grid. You can now create a page approval flow for SharePoint libraries to add a Flow-driven review process for all new and updated pages. This week there is also two new connectors: Acumatica and Plumsail HelpDesk.