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Capabilities of Flow (as compared to SP Designer)
I think as I understand it Flow is the next evolution of SharePoint Designer Workflows? I have yet to have time to really dive into Flow, but in order to consider eventually upgrading solutions a...
Are there any plans to be able to edit Flow as text rather than as a UI paradigm (e.g. like in Logic Apps that I think these are based on)? I find that the UI is very limiting as a Consultant/Developer, as well as not scalable in some situations (e.g. large number of fields returned from a Get operation - scrolls off the page when adding to an Action field, hard to find the one you are looking for etc)
Richard, since Flow is designed for business users, we don't expect to add the complete code view functionality that LogicApps offers (Flow is indeed built on top of Logic Apps). However, we will be enriching the experience in the coming months to make it easier to write the same expressions that Logic Apps offer today. We also plan to add a migration path in the future from Flow to LogicApps.
- @RichardAngus, We will get the numerous updates from MS flow team going forward. They way MS Flow built for next innovation tool to interact with O365,SharePoint and LOB systems for real time scenarios.
