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StefanFried
Steel Contributor
Aug 17, 2017

Anyone using Node-Red in combination with Office365 ?

"Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways."   I'm wondering if anyone in the community is using node-red in combinat...
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Marc Dupuis's avatar
Marc Dupuis
Copper Contributor
Dec 17, 2017

Hi Stefan,

I am interested in doing the same, using Node Red; have you made some progress?

Thanks!

Marc

  • Steven Collier's avatar
    Steven Collier
    MVP
    Dec 17, 2017

    In what ways is this not just an IBM version of Microsoft Flow?

     

     

    • StefanFried's avatar
      StefanFried
      Steel Contributor
      Dec 17, 2017

      yes, node-red was initiated by ibm, but it is driven by a nice community :)

       

      if you compare the amount of triggers within node-red with the "175 triggers" MS flow offers at the moment, then i would say that the open community of node-red offers much more

      https://flows.nodered.org/

       

      the main target group for MS Flow (in my opinion) are the Endusers

      -->if there is a new file on onedrive, then do whatever)

       

      ..whereas with Node-red you have plenty of things for system people (and all the folks who are interested in this IoT topic)

       

      one example:

      there is no ms flow thingie available for Apache Kafka. Kafka is in my case one key element which i use to re-route all differnt things (and to use it in combination with node-red).

      If you miss a "Node", then just develope it yourself....

       

      there are for sure dozens/hundreds of other usecases.

       

      as said, MS Flow is cool stuff...but just targeting endusers which is in my case the wrong group of people.

       

       

      • Steven Collier's avatar
        Steven Collier
        MVP
        Dec 18, 2017

        Flow is built on Azure Logic Apps, you can create additional connectors in logic apps, of export your flow and import it to logic apps to develop it further.

         

        Kafka has various options for endpoints, for example HTTP which would be trivial for Flow to call.

         

        Flow has existing, rich connectors for SharePoint, Skype, Teams, Email etc. If you want to send SMS then your would typically send an email to a gateway service of some kind, most mobile operators provide them.

         

        Flows access to Office 365 is fully documented as open APIs known as the Microsoft graph, it would be entirely possible for the Node-Red community to develop against it. It's documented at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph

         

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