Anyone using Node-Red in combination with Office365 ?

StefanFried
Iron 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
  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
  - Marc Dupuis
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 19, 2017
    Thanks Steven.
    
    I will work with Microsoft Graph and Flow. I appreciate the input!
    
    Regards,
    
    Marc
- Marc Dupuis
  Copper Contributor
  Dec 17, 2017
  Stefan,
  
  Thanks forthe info!
  
  I want to use Node red with Skype and I am looking for some guidance. If you have something to share, I would appreciate it!
  
  Regards,
  
  Marc
  - StefanFried
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 18, 2017
    Hello Marc,
    
    what Skype things you want to cover?
    A notification to a skype chat?
    Notified whenever a specific user starts a conference?
    
    Old lync backend or the new skype backend within teams?
    Tell me your use case and i can hopefully give you a proper answer :)
    
    Stef

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