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Haniel Croitoru
Oct 31, 2016Learn Expert
Workflows for Office 365 – What are your Options
Last week, I created a post on Forms for SharePoint, where I compared the various Forms options available. What about workflows? Workflows often go hand in hand with forms and do all the heavy lift...
Shelley Breen
Nov 14, 2016Copper Contributor
I'm looking for a workflow solution that utilises Outlook Tasks but Flow doesn't seem to recognise tasks within Outlook, only sharepoint. I need to create a workflow that can track processes across several departments that all use Outlook for email, so it would make sense to automate the tasks in Outlook - Why isn't that possible or am I missing something?
- Dean_GrossNov 14, 2016Silver Contributor
Shelley Breen, you could use a SP Task list, each user could sync that to their outlook, when they are assigned a task they can update its status directly from Outlook without going to the SP site. If you start with the provided Task Assignment feature, you could created simple SPD 2013 WFs that provide routing and branching.
- Nov 14, 2016AFAIK, Flow does not provides support for Outlook Tasks and I doubt it will have such support. However, Flow already offers integration with Project Online, SharePoint Online (as you mention) and Planner is coming