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From YouTube: General SharePoint Dev Special Interest Group (SIG) - 26th of July 2018

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Recording of the SIG from July 26th. Latest SharePoint Development news from engineering. SharePoint Developer news and cool community demos.

Detailed agenda and covered topics are available via the Microsoft Tech Community (http://aka.ms/spdev-community).

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A

Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, wherever in the world you locate it's welcome today, there will be no vissa he's enjoying his well-deserved holiday vacations, I'm somewhere I. Think on the countryside of Finland I saw a picture come by on Twitter, where he was sitting in the middle of a forest, doing some important things behind his laptop.

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So it will be me Aaron, Paolo, Patrick checks and mark Stokes today. That will hopefully entertain you for an hour with, with some new things, to show you some topics to discuss, and hopefully we still have some time for Q&A too. In the end, if there's any questions most of indeed Paulo is in Lapland in the northern part of Finland, so again short reiteration of what we're talking about today and what today is this is the special interest group about general development. So today we focus on everything above SPF X effectively.

A

So there might be some JavaScript popping up here and there there might be some PowerShell popping up. There might be some see some c-sharp code popping up, but it's more generic SharePoint development topics to talk about, and this ranges from pure code to sort of non coded solutions, including flow for instance, and that's why checks is here today to again I would like to stress these slides very much.

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This is not a game where a few people out there in the world provide all the information and all the goodies for you to consume. This is a game of us. We play this game together and we would love it if you help us make this even better and by contributing on YouTube github. This can be done by providing code samples, demo solutions, patents, but also by answering questions you might have noticed. If your browser runs on the github repos, there's a lot of issues out there.

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We really, unfortunately, don't have the time to answer them all. We do this all in our three times after work in the weekends during vacations. It would be wonderful if you see in a question- and you have an answer to it- please reply to it. Would we really would love you to be part of this whole community and and help us to make this one become even better and even bigger?

A

So what we're talking about today is March talks. We'll do a demo related to flow which will come a bit later and then me and Paulo will talk about some changes, we're making to the PNP provisioning engine that are upcoming and those changes. I'll explain why we're making those changes and- and where are we going with those, and hopefully you will like them, and hopefully you think they're they're useful, go back to June. We had 800,000 views on the documentation, also keep in mind that the documentation is something you can help Microsoft with.

A

If he navigates to a page within the doctor, Maxis comm, you will notice an edit button, the top right, if you click on that one you'll navigate a github, you can make a pull request. You can make it change. Your name will be on that page as one of the author's. This would be your five minutes of thing. So if you find something that is wrong in the old days, you can just say there was a discussion in the end say this is wrong. Now you can actually update it and change it.

A

So that's a really good thing. So this is a living site. This is not a static thing that would be released once a year. This is a living thing. So please, please, please again contribute help myself to make this better, because it will only make your life easier to and your fellow colleagues and friends, if you have any issues with over 365 SharePoint in general and actually doesn't matter that much what there is a github repo.

A

Where there's an issues list, URL a kms SPF, there's issues the issues you will notice that you get redirected to the site or a github repo called SB, deaf dogs. Let that name not confuse you. The engineering team keeps track of these issues and marks them up with the correct labels and forwards them to the people responsible to have a look at and potentially fix, the issues you have with the products.

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So please use this list as your way to get in touch with the engineering team and get in touch with Microsoft and tell them what's what's wrong. What's where there's a bug where, as an issue etc, this is your way to give feedback.

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This is our big success number right now we get a lot of positive feedback on the SharePoint starter kit. People really seem to appreciate what we've been doing here. This is now also a repo, so there is the AKMs spdf starter kit. This repo allows you would love it if you come up with with wonderful new features there, and it makes this cro connected to the SPF snowy to the starter. Kit is the changes to the provisioning engine. That's Paulo and I will talk about later.

A

So this is a great way to get up and running there to learn about how to use solution packages with the based on SP of X, how to do somewhat more advanced scripting, with PowerShell, to create your site collections, etc. Not there's more news about about this adiprene relationships, the provisioning engine coming later. In today's talk, this is big news SharePoint. When t 19, the preview came out, you can download it it's it's an relatively minor download of 3.9 gigabytes.

A

So make sure you don't do this on a 4G connection, but it's it's it's out there for you to download and install quite some things made it's into 2019 that we are used from now already for a while in SharePoint Online. Some things didn't make it so, for instance, side, designs and half sites and the site collection, scoped, app, catalog didn't make it thermal properties also did not make it.

A

Although if you really are a bit creative, you could come up with a similar technology when it comes to tenant properties, sort of using a property bag somewhere in your tenant.

A

For those asking which version of the shape and framework will be in there, it will be 1.4, so yeah, it's a bit older than what is out there and over 365 already, but it's still more capable in what is available in SharePoint, 2016, so download it install it's play it and play with it and give Microsoft feedback about my introduction. So today's topics and demos first marched oak, so L will give him the the states in in a minute and after that's me and Paulo, we will talk about it and then maybe checks you.

A

We can put you in between mark and Paulo and me. So if you go straight, I have to mark- and you said you need it like 10 minutes, correct.

B

A

We should be. We should be good in time today. I think I thought I talk fast and Lissa I think.

A

The stage is yours, Thank,.

C

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I'll, stop sharing and I'll mute.

C

Thinking everybody hear me: okay, we're coming through nice and clearly yep good good, okay. Well, first of all, thank you for inviting me to present today I today's on the call who don't know me. My name's mark Stokes I come before the tonight I'm a former MVP and doing lots of sessions like this recently I've been getting heavily involved in Microsoft Flight, absolutely loving it and I think it's one of the better tools of Microsoft's put out there. It's not perfect!

C

It's getting better and better all the time, but it's really changed the way that I am working on my development. I am the developer by trade, so I'm actually starting to build more and more business processes using flight. Remember the past few weeks, I've been sharing a lot more of what I've been doing. So, if you follow me on Twitter you're, probably sitting I've been sharing a few templates and updates on some of the flows. I've been creating one of things, I find really interesting. Is it's really around their automated tune of business processes?

C

I've worked in a small business and so the more we can automate the better. We are and flow is just it. It's blowin me around how easy is to do this and yeah I post a think up recently chat for laughing to them.

C

So basically, what we're looking at doing today is taking some SharePoint list data and dynamically building a MailChimp mail campaign, sending it out through MailChimp and then that fully autonomously I first decided I wanted to do this and I send out a number of newsletters monthly sure when years agree for couple of my own business etc, and it's quite a time-consuming process when it is quite repeatable, so I went into the flow and I thought fantastic.

C

How good there is no American connector in there, and that should let me do it so I first went and explored what the options are and one the options there's a new campaign, excellent. Unfortunately, it wasn't quite going far enough it. Let me create a new campaign where it doesn't allow me to define a template. It doesn't allow me to put in any dynamic content unless I attached it to an RSS feed and it doesn't allow me to send the campaign out either.

C

So it's useful for what it does, but it didn't go far enough for what I wanted it to do, and so I started exploring some other ways of doing it, and that brought me back to the HTTP action. So a lot of what I'm going to show you is based around that so flow is very much positioned around a tool that consumer eyes this business processes trying to bring some no code, slash Ilocos solutions in.

C

In some cases we do need a bit more of a tacking ability and is one of those flows where we do need a little bit more technical knowledge on how we do it. So it's going to be interesting to to show how I kind of get around that the nice thing. If it shows you that, actually, if you do reach limitations with any of their connectors, there generally a fallback option that you can do and you can pretty much achieve a heck of a lot more than you might actually think so.

C

First of all, what would do? Let's just have a quick look at some of the content I want to put into my newsletter. So my monthly newsletter, it's just going to send out a load of updates after the office365 roadmap, the Azeri road map and the as your updates.

C

So I have these loaded into my SharePoint list, but as well live it up two three: four: five roadmap: now you might be wondering how I get these in and how I manage to tweet these out so quickly when they come on, you can probably a vanish yeah. Imagine the answers that is a Microsoft Lync, so I have a flow that connects up to RSS, feeds and grabs a new items, oxidizer roadmap and the house. Your update and load them into my SharePoint list.

C

Then that automatically triggers another flow that goes out and sweeps them so I get those updates. Nice and quick I also put them into Microsoft teams, for my teams to share and I just share that information around as wise as I can again flow. Just makes it so easy for me to do that. My one request to Microsoft is that we can have the office365 roadmap and RSS feed rather than a downloadable recipe that would make my life lazier and anyways laughter.

C

They said we want to put in so we want this dynamic content going into our newsletter. My newsletter should bring the five most recent versions of as far as the five most recent items in this list and include them in my dad might watch some your newsletter.

C

The nice thing is, MailChimp does have a over a nice API. So if we go and have a quick look at the API reference for MailChimp, it's a nice restful, api or nicely restful- and we can see in here. The coverage here is a lot wider than we have through the connector. So I can correct campaign forward as I'm create campaigns so create a new campaign.

C

Send the campaign from here as well as these are all the bits that are really of used to me to make a fully automated attack. I could even use slow to pick up on conversations as well, for somebody replies to it working through a lot more around this. If I wanted to at the moment it just sent the campaign out, the other thing I have problems with, is actually sending my dynamic HTML to MailChimp. That's something that wasn't particularly to do, however, that can be achieved using the templates feature of MailChimp.

C

So again, I can just upload a template to MailChimp, and one of the nice options in here is it lets me pass in the HTML. Okay, so I can generate my age amount of flight, send it to MailChimp as a template. Then I can create a campaign based on that template and send the campaign, so I can achieve every step. I want to do so. If we have a quick look at the flow.

C

What we have here is the amass a little bit, so you can see what happens our run over the the basic tasks that happen here and are going to them in a bit more detail. The first of all I want my flow to run every month, so I can just set it to run on a monthly interval, but is that bi-weekly, if I wanted to just by changing values, and then what I do is the different branches I have in here or the parallel the parallel flows?

C

These are just loading, the SharePoint list items and they generate in the HTML snippets for the sections of my newsletter. I could just stack these on top of each other when you come to business processes like this I, don't really care how long it takes my flow to run or it's just going to run autonomously. In the background, however, for me it's just a lot neater to use parallel branches, so I can drop and get the three set of items at the same time and they'll run.

C

All of those complete I can generate my HTML and they're like and uploaded some outcomes and sender. I have 15 minutes to this demo. You'll probably see it's quite simple. How I achieve this I hope that up until that time, the most complicated bit of interacting with with a with REST API is and external systems. If you do this with HTTP is actually the authentication side of things. If you're developing you try to connect space or vaporizer or no, that's generally, where the most painful side of things now jim has some good information on here.

C

So if you go into the authentication section, there's actually two different methods of authentication on the API one is passing in an API key, isn't basical sent occation and the other option is I wore to I, actually is I wore two in this demo, but I'm not going to go into the details. We got my getting my Authenticator authentication token because, quite frankly, it's a bit of a pain. Well, it's not pain.

C

Baby I bring up postman I, make one request to an endpoint stack, giving me my access token and then I just store that in a variable and the nice thing remote well, the nice thing with MailChimp is those tokens last forever. They don't expire them. I would say: that's not a nice thing because, with the potential security researcher gets hold of it, but it'd be quite easy. To do.

C

I could just put another HTTP action in here post off to get my access token save that in the variable, so I could do it on a room-by-room basis. If I wanted to for simplicity, I just copy it in here I am going to put a blog post together over the next couple of weeks of how I actually get that loss token. So I'll fill that gap and because that probably it's going to be the biggest barrier.

C

The other option that you have is beta collection, so you can actually just form your HTTP request and in the body you just pass in any string as a username and an API key as the password, and then that would also indicate you as well. Api keys are very easy to get to you go into your account settings in MailChimp. You click on extras, get your API keys, you generate a new API key and then you can use it and don't worry. I will be disabling API key at the end of this session.

C

So we have an API key. We would make a call as well that becomes the password that we use on our HTTP request. Okay, so basically I just saw that in the variable here now, I'm actually starting to use compose actions instead of variables, so I'm kind of differentiating the two I don't know why I just feel comfortable using compose. So any areas where I'm setting text values like this, that I'm not expecting to change I'm using compose to use them I just find it a nice.

C

That's the way of doing it and they're variable and I might want to change so I'd normally. Do this like a post action now. The other thing I have here is my email HTML template. So this is the HTML template for my news.

C

Mailchimp generally likes to generate lots of HTML, so that is the HTML from an email campaign. So you can either generate that newsletter. Html yourself or a very nice easy way of doing it is going manually, create yourself a campaign, send it and then once you've sent it. It gives you the ability to view the HTML source and you can just copy that HTML source house it's already out of Belgium and put it into a string variable.

C

Okay, the nice thing is and I'm a little bit surprised about this and pleasantly surprised a string variable inflow. It lets me put a very, very long string in there. That's a long string. Drive actually don't know how far that will. Let me go, but this seems to work okay and now what I do as well. So this is a template by certified resume.

C

You know that's a little bit, then what I do I take the area where I want my dynamic content to be and I just tokenizer so from the HTML I paste in here, I'm actually cutting out the section, that's my items and just replacing it with a token okay, my token format, if curly brace, curly brace name of the token close to curly, braces and then later on, what we're going to do is we're just going to replace that token, with the actual HTML fare for that section, this is going to show you office365 roadmap and then, if I scroll up should have somewhere else as your updates as a token case, which this becomes a nice HTML template that I can reuse over and over.

C

So have my HTML template at my earth token and then I go through and I process. Mine I've, basically wondering here is generate an HTML that I want to push into my newsletter. So first of all, I create a variable. I do use a variable here, I'm going to add to it as I go on so I just having an opening div we're going on the table there. However, you want to do it and then I go off to SharePoint and I get items.

C

Ok, so I'm getting items from my my SharePoint site by as your updates list and I want to order it by publish date. Defending and I just want five items. So I can put my filters in there.

C

Then I do I apply to each so for each item, I get back from SharePoint, so I use a composer I'm not going to edit. This and I just generate the HTML for that particular SharePoint item. If I generate a anchor tag put in the link and the title put in the description and I add in the publish tags as well, I'd probably replace this and just use an expression here.

C

What can actually format the date I go back from SharePoint, so it's a little bit more friendly than a UTC day and then I append that HTML to my my string, okay, so ii might add your updated, HTML, snippet string and because that's a no loop that will basically copy those two sets for each of the SharePoint list items.

C

Okay, so I get my five items in my list and then once I finished that apply to each loop, I go and other clothing there to my major update, HTML string, so I give me a page: well flip it for that part of the newsletter. I do exactly the same here for the office365 roadmaps, HTML and exactly the same for the as your roadmap. Html emerges all run now when they are all finished now. This is one of my favorite features.

C

Is the ability to configure the run after so when you do when you do these? Parallel branches, you can actually set it so that the next step will only run after these items being successful, and this is also where I was automatically regenerate the authentication token, so you could actually use it and then, if that fails, you can have another action in here that runs. If that action failed, they were growth, getting the authentication tokens this configure run after this becomes very useful when you're doing error handling in your flows.

C

So it's worth looking into that and I think so why I'm doing here is I'm getting into an expression mighty fine I use expressions quite a lot. So this is where I'm still a bit omen in our and on how much of an IT Pro feature flow is I. Think it's getting there, but I'd like see the expression handling a little bit neater just to make that accessible, I tend to write my expression out in in Visual Studio code.

C

I just find it easier to put them together, but all I'm doing here in this expression, if I'm just using the replace command so I'm, just taking the variable from the email HTML template that we created before and I'll just replace them that token, with the HTML that we generated in those three loops, so I'm just going to replace template as your updates with the as your update, HTML, okay, because I nest. These replace comments.

C

That means I'm going to replace the result in HTML over the first one and then replace alpha 3 cooks like roadmap token, with the HTML regenerated in that first recent slide: roadmap update HTML snippet and the same last year. Oh man so I just nest these in and to replace those areas, and you can build this with as much as you want. Maybe if you have your header content, that's going to come back with, while from SharePoint you can make all the content fully dynamic and just fill that you can imagine.

C

As far as you can imagine that these can get quite complicated quite quickly and I did put a post up on my medium about what a my expressions that they've got quite complicated, just process and date format, so they'd be nice ever seen easier way to edit these. But that's the expression we used well, that's generating my full newsletter. Html I also need to encode this a little bit as well. So what happens is when I'm sending this up to go to MailChimp through HTTP POST request?

C

What happening is the the HTML is inside a string, so I have double quotes within my string of my post body and so I just need to encode it slightly.

C

So all I'm doing here I have some instances where I have a where I encode my speech marks my double quotes, but when that went on to MailChimp it failed slightly and give me some rather funny HTML, so I realize I just needed to escape my escape character, so I, just a very simple another plugin, with a little expression that came in so I thought that this election has us and then once they've got our HTML ready for our campaign. We can actually go and send that to MailChimp.

C

So the first thing I do is I, then just use the HTTP action. I want to use the post, so I go and refer to mine, the developer, documentation and MailChimp to get my REST API and I do always create these in postman first. So if you're doing anything with directly with an HTTP request, I really recommend downloading a dog or postman. You can mock up your request, see what the result is and then you can make a lot easier to embed in there.

C

So good I want to create a new template in MailChimp, I use a post and then that's the rest endpoint for creating the new template. My I pass in some headers one, the headers authorization in that authorization I pass in the author, the auth token my values variables here so that if I need to change it, I only change at one place with the start and that automatically updates the rest of my flow content.

C

Type I'm telling if I want to send it from Jason and then I send the body of my request so I'm, given the template, a name I also put in a folder for a different customer, so I put into a folder in template and I pass in the HTML here. I I'm not entirely sure what the the limit is of a HTTP HTTP POST body, but it definitely takes the HTML that I've generated above. So it is quite large education, page mother.

C

So actually it looks nice and simple matter having Advanced Options by just an authentication to none and because I'm passing the authentic authorization token in in the header. I. Don't need to do that. So, when I send that request of to MailChimp that returns me from from Jason Jason is the results that give me some information about. The templates I've just created. Why I have to do in here is I put in the schema of the response that I'm going to get back?

C

Make people like MailChimp, don't give you the schema, but what's nice, if you have this little option down here, use sample pelota generate schema, so why do I go and mock up this requested in postman? That gives me my JSON response. I paste that live JSON response in here and then flow will automatically generate that schema for me from what it finds. So it tells me that for properties in the response, I'll have an ID which is an integer. The idea I need later on, so I need to refer to the template.

C

When I create my campaign that passed, Jason really really useful. Once that successful, then it goes on. It creates a campaign. I just make another request of the campaigns on point passing the same author right same access, toca and I pass in the Jason I need to create a campaign that easy you go to through the documentation, go to the API reference, and if you go to campaigns, it's just our UV and the format that you need to submit in here for our sample there. So it gets quite easy to generate these.

C

So Paris was a lot of the options for MailChimp is a bit frustrating it kind of gives you see URL example, so you just have to convert them to HTTP POST jason, so I just send in my recipient. So I find out my list, so I want to get that send that to my specific list and MailChimp I one sends a regular campaign. One set the subject line. I do an expression here just to set the month in the year in the subject line of the email.

C

So the reply to the Fromm name title and then I passing the template ID. So the past Jason is nice, grew means I can easily get the prophecies from the Jason that came back from my previous post, so I just pass in the template. Id we've got back again, I store in a folder like to keep. Imagine me, okay.

C

That also returns me from Jason. So again, I'm interested in the campaign ID for the next step. So I just do another pass. Jason I post in my sample, I'm Jason, hair regeneration, schema for me and then once that's completed, I send a send request now in reality you might want to do some approval, and so you could actually use the flow to send a test copy of the campaigns, and maybe you want to send it to yourself for approval. You could do that quite easily. There's API endpoints for that as well.

C

The extended start for you're happy with this. Yes or no click. Yes, it will go and send it click. No, then it will wait for you to make edits and send of yourself if you put a lot more intelligence in there. If you want see I guess it takes a brave person to dynamically, create a newsletter and send it with no checking and then extend.

C

The campaign are just asking the campaign ID that we've got in the previous one and then action flash send and that's all I need to do, and then that will tell MailChimp I should send that campaign. I, don't want to keep the template for that one, so I go and delete it so I send the delete option so I delete command to the template, slash template, ID, endpoint and that will go and delete it from Malcolm.

C

The reason I don't want to keep that template is because it's very easy for me to get hold off with one side once that campaign has been sent. It gives me the HTML source, so I don't need to keep the copy of it. So I can just delete it from my my templates list, and that is how easy it is to dynamically, create a template using SharePoint list items and I'm going to be brave and I'm going to send this now.

C

So start to successfully that's always a bonus. Ozu Matt I can see this room 3 that's a date, so lots of green ticks I, like green ticks. We've gone in we've uploaded the template to MailChimp, there's the Jason that I get back. So that's why I would paste into the schema Alissa perfect, then I, send my create campaign. Tells me right centre of my list ID. They should have my campaign ID in there as well. So my template ID that give me 200 response, which is good I've completed, send the campaign.

C

Yeah looks like that stones as well, and it's going to delete at the template and in successful as well. So if I go into MailChimp, look at campaigns, I can see that those are into the correct folder. Those I drop a monthly update to like 2018, and that has been sent just now. So 26th of July 3:30 p.m. I haven't gone back in time. It is 3:30 p.m. I write in the UK and it's going to see that campaign and we have HTML.

C

It's not the most Britta campaign, just yeah, but we have their contents in that from our SharePoint list. That's all saying about formatting win the date. It's pre Mars, hit by Howie deer. Imagine doing that in code.

A

Well, you said it was like no code, lo code effectively, you're developing I, think you're building code here, but you just don't you're typing in the commands you drop in them.

A

It reminds it requires the minds know which requires the mindset of a developer effectively what you're putting over here but I think it's brilliant a bit. It shows how how flow is turning into the glue between SharePoint and the rest of the world effectively.

B

Key points that you you brought upon the different things like that little branch is the one after I would highly recommend folks, if you haven't done that, especially the one after she could look at it, because it's very powerful in terms of telling what to do and what not to do- and you could have you know- error, emails and stuff like that configure accordingly for a business, it's pretty powerful. Those two things are yeah.

C

I did are quite expensive, like this slow here is the user onboarding, so just to show how easy is, if you don't follow me on Twitter. This is one I shared before this is the user onboarding flow, and what we're doing this? This is a slow where a user can fill in a Microsoft form and I'm going to successful.

C

This will go and create the user in stripe or create a subscription to the service in stripes have been in purposes, allows them to MailChimp and also create the manager ad account, so they can go and log into a web portal. All of that is done in flow and also backs out. So I've got a method in here where I keep track of these steps that have been completed so I can treat a bit like transaction.

C

If one of those steps fails, I can go and back out all the previous ones as well later on, but just in how big some of these can get once they run. You know you can build some pretty complex items in here when you get to this level. I highly recommend, 4k monitor and the super widescreen monitor so yeah. It is you're building applications with virtually you know, just a few expressions really and not really much code, it's fantastic so.

A

Checks yeah. What do you have to share with us? Thank you.

B

B

I'm gonna share my screen.

B

So for folks put in follow this week on Twitter, there was Microsoft business app summit here in Seattle that basically had flow of power. Apps and dynamics team come and talk about their updates and they had lots of sessions about what was new some they announced this week and getting together how to using all of those tools together. So some interesting thing that came out this week was the support for throws in EXO. So if you have Excel web app on it, so now you can add flow as one of the atoms.

B

If you go to office add-ins and then, if you go to the store, you can search for flow, and you can add this to your EXO, and this is pretty right now, so things may not be working as good as possible, but it works most of the time and it's really neat now. This brings some interesting scenario right now. You can take the data in your Excel and put matter where you want. You can even create a campaign to MailChimp.

B

Are you can even have a table and say create an item in SharePoint for a selected row and just one that flow right now here? What this would do? Is it basically will put this project 400 in my list in SharePoint there you go, that is project 400. It even put my email Chuchu, a person column right there. So it's pretty easy and I think this opens up to amount of scenarios, especially for SharePoint, given that Excel and SharePoint. Usually people have this.

B

You know requirement for moving data back, it quote, but that scenario is that you, let me see how Vegas you put the flow, if you add the Adhan and under the data tab, you have flow, excuse me and then once you load it, if it's the first time you sign in and then you get the option to choose a template that is very specifically designed for the ones that are available for so and right there. The first template is an item in SharePoint where selector Pro.

B

So if you just select that and then you continue it will now, let you pick a cable from your sheet. So here I have a table so I'll give it will give me that table and then you can basically pick the site name and lyft's name, and this will be exactly the same experience as what you would expect in the flow cell type. So it's pretty powerful if you haven't looked at it I would encourage you to go look at what this can do, especially in lots of businesses where they use Excel.

B

One of the other things I've seen in Twitter, but I've been really shy, are silent about this. There was a requirement in power apps for authors, the Abdoun. This should go ahead and republish their app every six months. Otherwise the app will stop work.

B

Many people didn't really get this information because it was like a tiny little note in the documentation, but not something that was really pushed and- and it was bad because I would you even the mom, but you can republish the app it should just work as it is. No. The reason behind that was power. Apps is a continuously improving platform and teachers get added every release or every week or every month. So if you get those features into your app, you had to republish the app otherwise the apps, not working, but I.

B

Think now they are working on a much better solution. Is that if you don't be publish the app, the app will still work, but you won't get any of the new features that you see, announced announced in the blogs are the, for example.

B

If there was a performance improvement that happen with the new update, you'd have to republish your advocate those updates right so, but otherwise the app would still work and they're trying to work on a mechanism where you can actually tell power, absolutely publish the app whenever for every six months or things like that. But you know this is a very fine line that we need to draw whether do I. Let the tool handle all of this or do I actually have to go and and have a look at it.

B

Whether things are working and then republish the app I think now you have both of these options, even that automating, the we publish is coming soon. So this is something everybody in Twitter everywhere became heated discussion. So, I'm glad that power, apps team has come up with something that you can manage, how you recover share apps. So there was the two updates that I wanted to share. If you have any questions, put them in the chat and I will leave the flow chat area and follow I guess right, I mean yep.

A

That was a great update at last from its iPhone is pretty annoying that you had to republish an every six months, so this creates that they came up with something there right. Let me hear let me share this cream again.

A

And then Paul and I will talk a bit about upcoming telescope provision, the provisioning engine, paolo yeah.

D

Yeah yeah good morning, everybody so I would switch to the next slide just to start talking about what will come out in the very near future.

D

Actually, we are working at the engine level, so, first of all, at the schema level as usual, and then in the engine implementation to make it possible to provision not only a single set collection like or a single side like we do nowadays, but more in general, the IR key of sides, or a sequence or side. If we want to refer to the XML element, we already have in the provisioning schema at 10 and wide.

D

So basically, you will be able to apply a provisioning template which will create and provision artifacts on multiple sides inside collection at once, and this will be, we think, really useful whenever you have kind of complex solutions which include multiple sides as like, as the starter kit, for example, which we do have to provision the main communication side, as well as a couple of modern tin sides within a unique side hub and the idea to being able to use the provisioning engine to do all these provisioning at once.

D

We think will be really useful and will improve your productivity. At the same time, yep I was.

A

Thinking, maybe you explain why haven't we done this before, because we always were explaining that the provisioning engine only applied a template aside, but you had to create a site collection yourself first and now we're introducing or plan to introduce the ability to create a hierarchy of site collections through the engine, but likely create a site collection and the main reason that we can do that now is the modern sites that take a few seconds to create compared to classic sites that can take up to 15 minutes.

A

That is one of the reasons that we never really ventured off into that area. With the old site collections.

D

Precisely and I thought I agree with you on the other side, we should still think, and maybe we can even share some totes with all the other people in this school about what shall we do if we want to provision a hierarchy of site which includes classic sites, because that is, it will take a while to do the creation to create the site collection and that the provision can be fast or slow, depending on how many artifacts you want to provision, but the creation of the classic side will for sure take a while.

D

So we need to think about it.

D

We can just make it possible to create hierarchies of modern site, which is one option, but I don't know if it is the good one and having some feedback from the people in this call I think would be really really useful and appreciated and on their side we need to think how to manage a provisioning of a hierarchy of different flavor of sides so feel free to use the chat area, or maybe after these short talk by me and our winner, we can just do an open mic session in which you can ask your questions about core and power share in general.

D

But specifically, you can even give us some feedback about these upcoming changes. If there's.

A

A remark here from Benoit: he will be able to set the language and time zones. Hey, hey, I would love that. The chairman's is it's not that we don't want to do it. It's just that we are talking to an API that is provided to us. I mean we don't work at Microsoft. We don't build SharePoint, so we're just consumers. Just like you are, and if my son builds it, we will implement it, no problem, it will be in the engine, but right now, yeah. Unfortunately, as long as there is.

D

An API to do something we can do that, but if we don't have the API, unfortunately, we can't yeah.

A

Use of force is one, the other one would be. The SPF Knox issues list yeah.

D

Upcoming changes, one other coming change that we are thinking about. No I will stay on the previous line, just for a while, if you don't mind are we is the idea to use the the PMP package file most likely. You know that we support xml provisioning file, somehow json prision files, as well as dot PMP package files, which are open, xml files in which we can store the provision and plate as well as all the artifacts like five stop low, are the mages and stuff like that, CSS and so on so forth.

D

Well, we are thinking about using the same PMP package file to store also multiple templates, as well as multiple SP pkg sharpen framework packages, so that it will be possible to adjust a unique dot BMP file to do the full provisioning of a hierarchy of site targeting a tenant and again we think it will be really useful and powerful from a deployment perspective. But again we are really really open to feedback from you guys.

D

So if you think it's not useful or if you would like to do it differently, just let us know we can talk about it and we can try to find the best solution for all of us for the community. So those are the main pillars of the changes that will come out. I would say pretty soon, because the target is to make it possible to achieve some new functionalities in the starter kit by ignite, which will be in late September if I'm not mistaken.

D

So it will take a couple of months from now to evolve these capabilities available of, hopefully, that's our plan we'll see, but we will try to do our best to reach the goal right.

A

The main story above this is that we want to have a single file format, so it makes it very easy distributable you don't have to handle five XML files, three SpVgg files and hierarchy file at just one packets. You apply detector, packets and your side structure, including the design, is up and running. That's the idea behind it.

D

Next one, if you don't have anything else to add on this, so all these new capabilities are targeting this point, starter kit v2. We could say, because we are thinking about providing a tenant, automated deployment of the starter kit. So the idea that we have in our mind, is to make it possible for you or anybody else, to install the starter kit just browsing to a website which will be under the SharePoint PNP URL.

D

We still don't know which will be the name but something starter kit, SharePoint, BMP, dot-com, or something like that, and through that website you will simply have to grant the permissions for your tenant to the application to the issue, ready application multitalented the application that we are creating to make it possible for that application to do the automated provisioning of the socket kit for you in your tenant.

D

Of course, this will imply that you will have to grant quite high level of permissions to that application, but you should trust it and should trust us and if we use these functionalities to make it possible not only to do the initial provisioning, but maybe most likely not by September, not by the end of September, but in the future, maybe also to provide you the capability to update your tenant.

D

So you go back to the site and you decide to upgrade it to the latest and greatest version of the starter kit and having proper permissions granted to the Appa. We will be able to do it for you, so it will leverage the parent level hierarchy provisioning.

D

It will leverage the capability to create site collection, modern such collections on the fly, and we think it will be really interesting, especially if you want to do a demo for a customer, and you want to set up the starter kit on the fly in a matter of few minutes. Just registering your tenant and granting the permissions and.

A

If you, if you, because we do ask for a lot of rights, if you don't really trust us, it's all open source, you can have a look at it and and if that still doesn't convince you can actually get the open source. And it's that's totally. Ok, you don't have to use the PNP hosted version. It just makes your life easier. We.

D

Think yeah and to be fair, I I, wouldn't trust every. Neither so I would understand you can just download the source code and do it on your own website and it would be a sample. I was kidding, of course, just for fun, but it's a great I think it's a great sample. Also, if you wanna, create such kind of solution for your own provision at the site or customizations, because you can always download the source code copy, what we do and how to make the provisioning of your own solution using the same approach.

D

We know that, for some people having a ps1 file to execute targeting the tenant during the authentication and all the stuff can be somehow complex or not so friendly. At least that's why we decided to have a more friendly solution, easy to use. Also for not technical people, let me say, or for less technical people.

A

Interesting scenarios, for instance like say, you're, a consultant, you work for customer and you want to have a discussion about a certain site. You just provisioned the site of your tenant. Then there is it because we will allow you to make that's the idea, at least that we will allow you to make changes before you provision a template. So we allow you to change the theme and the title and URLs and all those things it will not be a hard coded package that will be provisioned out to your tenant. No, it's!

A

We allow you before it's actually proficient. We allow you to make changes to these content upload a new theme file, attachment cetera and then so you can customize the end result without writing a single line of code. That is the idea behind it.

D

D

Idea around this topic, what do you want to share with us to? Let us know if we can do it better or.

A

In this scenario, how will you go about the custom, User Profile property that we need for the footer links very valid point, and we would have to solve that in a different way.

A

You're working on that aren't you yeah.

D

I was working on a solution which actually will not be the right one. Unfortunately, because we are planning to use a custom list in the onedrive personal side of every single user to store the information. And fortunately we can't access that side collection using the SharePoint and pointer of the micrograph.

D

So we would need to use a different approach through Luci zoom and some other stuff and I'm still still trying to figure out if there is a smart solution, because it would have been really useful to being able to use the graph to access through the SharePoint and decide point of the micrograph, the onedrive for business, a collection. Unfortunately, we can't do that and we cannot even fix it, because it's a problem on the on the API side or a feature have ever been a problem on the graph at the eye side.

D

So I'm I'm still working on it, but I'm trying to figure out an alternative approach to still reach the same result, which maybe will be to use a custom list in the onedrive personal site of every single user, so that we don't need to create the user. Provide property and.

A

Chris remarked he said he would love to check, would love to have checkboxes for angel Ocampo, infinite of individual components yeah. We are planning to do that. So you show you what kind of components are in the packets but most likely parsing the SPG follower material? How we will approach it but and then allow you to say: okay, I want this I don't want that! I want this! I don't want it!

A

D

Having an EMP package file in which we can store multiple BMP XML, a template will make it possible to select which component you want to activate in your target site, and so we will selectively being be able to apply just those templates that we want to have, which will include, of course, the corresponding components. So, yes, the idea is to give you a list once you authenticate and you provide us the grant.

D

We provide you a list of the components and you will take those that you want to have activated in the site in the site that would be created.

A

Give you power house it all. The questions actually are, you know possible to create SharePoint, starter, kits, collection, site collection, using Azure application, an application permission scope, it's not possible. Now only delegated permissions are possible. Is that correct.

D

Well, actually, we we will use a delegated access token and not an application only token. So when you will go to the website and you will authenticate and give us the grantor, we will store a refresh token for your account that we can use to do the provisioning stuff on the backend.

D

We can even use it to refresh another access token to do the update, of course, the Refresh token will last after 3 month, if I'm not mistaken, 90 days to be to be sharp and so as like, as it happens with many other solutions targeting office 365, you will have to come back on the website in order to let us refresh the Refresh token sorry for the trick of wars.

A

Indeed, only administrators will be able to deploy, it is correct yeah, but we need access to like other things that are tenants code anyway. So yeah Patrick.

A

Asks if there's any work-in-progress code available for this? Currently not that really that's my problem, 8 a reference, that's gonna, be a very, very warm August. We have some work left here, so no currently not I think will do, but I wasn't sure. Yet we didn't really talk that through this, that we will first make something to work, and then we will publish a repro dev branch and then we start to take it from there, but the first publish will probably be something that already has a certain state of quality in it and.

D

Right now we are still working at the schema and at the engine level, even if I have a prototype which does the provisioning a tenant level uses. This refresh token, and if.

A

You go to the schema today if you're interested in that there's a schema repo and in that schema repo, you will find that there's actually something called a sequence. It's already in there, it's been there for years.

A

That has been that was created based on really great feedback. We had from Victory Lane billion at the time. That is something we plan to sort of reuse. It will not necessarily be are identical in what is there right now, but that was a part of the queen bee provisioning engine that is or the schema that has never been implemented, but it is in the schema, and it will be something like that, allowing you to create a hierarchy of sites, apply a template to a specific site, etc, etc. Let me know technology has changed.

A

The ecosystem has changed with the new solution packages, so we will probably have to update at a bit and modify it a bit and we have other properties and in some parts, so, let's probably tweak and set. So we have to tweak it a bit here and there, but that's what we're gonna work on. So you don't already have a look at that part of the schema.

A

D

Updated but it's the the basic that we are starting from. Yes,.

A

We have two minutes left. Did we make it in time? I think we did. Let's see yeah.

D

Well, I think on our side, that's it! So if there are.

D

Even it is some location because.

A

Thinking of letting my skype just for now, you know because I used to it so maybe I should make my skype crashed, but ya know everything with okay. So thank you for today. I hope you'll enjoy your summer time and it is not too warm like. It is in Sweden right now, where we're suffering, 35 degrees and I call that suffering indeed so enjoy your time. Thank for today and thank you Paulo. Thank you. Mark Thank, You checks, YUM.

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A

You Patrick for recording and see you next time.

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