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Matt Keays
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Sep 30, 2018

PowerApp - IPhone - Flow (talks to SP list and ERP)

Enjoyed learning more about Flow @ Ignite. I’m long time not technical but wanted to throw out a scenario to see what technologies could come together for us. 

 

We have :- 

 

Many many iPhone users and very tech adverse - they need simple apps big buttons and no complexity 

 

We need and app to allow simple input of 3 onto 5 fields including a free text field for comments.

 

Other drops downs need to pull from our Dynamics365 ERP - e.g. list of retail stores and address 

 

IPhone users create, save and possibly come back and edit a record that we thought could be saved to a SP List. 

 

Power App - after creating or editing one of these rows in SharePoint Online - sends an email to their manager - which is derived from Active Directory 

 

Last one - can the PowerApp then talk to the HR ERP via REST API ? We want the final saved row created by the iPhone user recorded against their HR profile In ERP (that system us called DAYFORCE - Ceridian) 

 

............ The only reason I thought of FLOW was because you could push the app out to the iPhone field staff via MDM then just add buttons for processes to the app. Seemed like a possible use of FLOW and SHAREPOINT or do I need to get a custom app built in Zammarin ? 

 

Cheers

Matt

 

 

 

  • If you want to add offline capabilities I think PowerApps is the way to go.

    I would suggest looking into building a custom connector for interaction with the HR-system. The connector you can use for both PowerApps and Flow. 

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