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Brent Ellis
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Jul 20, 2016

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...
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Merwan Hade
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Hi folks, Merwan here from the Microsoft Flow team. I think it's fair to say that Flow targets many of the same scenarios that Workflow designer did and we'd like your feedback to make sure that we truly succeed in doing so. However, Flow is not necessarily a "replacement" for SharePoint Designer, it is more of an "evolution." SharePoint Designer will be continued to be supported until 2026.

 

With Flow, our focus is on empowering business users to create workflows for their everyday business needs through connectivity to many services such as SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, O365 Email, Dropbox, Twittter, Trello, etc.  Brent Ellis - for the capabilities you mentioned, today we support HTTP actions and have workflow level logging, but we are working on identifying gaps such as variable types, item level permissions, etc. Brent and others, if you're available next week, I'd like to do a call with you to get a better understanding of the types of workflows you're building today with the Designer and how Flow can help. 

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Devendra Velegandla
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Sep 02, 2016

Hi Merwan,

 

I think the flows we have now is based on user level whereas workflows will build by IT admins to build solutions for all users. In future do we see enterprise level solutions using Microsoft flows? I am building lot more workflows using sharePoint Designer in my current and previous projects in various scenarios as specified by Brent Ellis. I have started exploring about Microsoft flows, f possible; I would love to talk to you.  

 

Edit: I hope we will have more control on governance of these apps. Especially if all users started developing apps then IT support team need to have access all those apps to help them if they have any issues. I saw in few posts we will get an option at Tenant admin level to show/hide the flows. I hope we have this option at Tenant, Site collection, site, and List/Library level to provide more control for admins.

 

 

 

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