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Shipped to First Release: Flow integration for SharePoint document libraries
Kerem Yuceturk and espnguyen You guys have got to do something about Yammer treating Flow as a 3rd party application. Anyone who has done their due diligence around risk profile has turned the 3rd party application setting off in Yammer, which then renders it completely unable to interact with Flow at all unless I do a crazy email based workaround.
I have actual real life use cases from my business wanting to use Flow into Yammer, I'll give you a couple examples:
- A Deal in CRM is won or lost. Depending on the characteristics of that deal, I want Flow to post in specific Yammer groups with specific people tagged and specific messaging. This is meant to start a conversation around that deal to spread the knowledge of what it was and why it was won or lost.
- A document is uploaded to a fairly intricate but well managed document library with well defined and understood metadata required. I want Flow to post to specific Yammer groups depending on that metadata "advertising" that document to drive not only consumption of that document out to broader audiences, but also the "rating" of that document to give its owners an idea of next steps for it (does it need edits? is it ready to move up to be shared more broadly? etc)
Their patience is running thin on this and I now regularly get the question about when can they use Teams instead of Yammer in these scenarios so they can move forward.
Yammer spends a lot of time talking about and demonstrating how it is good for the community aspect of an org, but you're ignoring the business value and how Yammer can integrate with other tools in Microsoft that are intended to solve business needs.
I realize there may be some engineering challenges around this that I don't have visibility into, but that is no excuse to not fix this. For a long time you guys said you would never add edit capability to Yammer posts because "it was hard", but now here comes edit capability soon I believe. You guys are famous for making decisions based on data, but this is often leading you down the wrong path because it is impossible to get data on something that is broken or simply does not exist yet.
- Sabra GoldickApr 25, 2017Former Employee
David Rosenthal - Thank you for your input. I have good news to share -- In the Yammer App Directory, "Microsoft PowerApps and Flow" is now a 1st party app. You should have access, even if you've disabled 3rd party apps.
- David RosenthalApr 25, 2017
Microsoft
This is awesome news Sabra Goldick, thank you! We will start testing this as soon as we can!
- Kerem YuceturkMar 29, 2017
Microsoft
Hi David Rosenthal, agreed that this is a scenario we would love to support. I've reached out to my colleagues in Yammer for details, and I'll let them or Steve Nguyen respond about your concerns.
- David RosenthalMar 29, 2017
Microsoft
Thank you Kerem. Kudos and great work to you for a very detailed thread with examples and guidance. Keep up the hard work like this and it won't be long before Flow is completely ubiquitous in Office 365.