Below is an image of the new format for conditions in Flow. Look at the no code control we have here with real conditional logic. What in improvement and one I am sure the community and users will embrace overall. Well done to the Flow Team, one of several great improvements I am seeing on my Twitter time line just now.
Full detail at this link: Build more powerful conditions in flows and more
Image credit: https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/build-more-powerful-conditions-in-flows-and-more/
In this post, we will once again reference back to part 8 – Call O365 Roadmap Web Service Weekly Digest where we have sent Microsoft 365 Roadmap updates via email.
The email body contains some interesting expressions and use of several nested functions using WDL, Workflow Definition Language.
A full reference on WDL can be found at this link.
Here is the section of the Flow that I am referring to:
Firstly, let's break down the expressions in the second row of the table, the one that looks like this:
And here is the code …
Back in part 8 – Call O365 Roadmap Web Service Weekly Digest you will see that we are generating the last 7 days worth of updates from the Microsoft 365 Roadmap and we are sending them as a weekly digest. The emails look like below:
I like them, they are well laid out and mostly readable but there are some values missing so once I got to adding them I realised the lay out and the styling required some thought. So now I am working with an output that looks like this:
Whether or not one is better than another is elementary in this post. I am going to show you the changes I had made in order to present the email in this way.
Here is a look at the relevant completed section now that the changes to the HTML & CSS have been made:
Back in part 8 – Call O365 Roadmap Web Service Weekly Digest you will see there is a Filter Array that I left alone at that time. This is because the scope of the blog post was to get a weekly digest of posts made by the Microsoft 365 Roadmap.
The expression within the Filter Array get's you the last 7 days of updates and does no more.
This is great, unless of course you have no need to be viewing a specific category such as Windows or O365. Maybe you are an Office 365 Admin and would like to streamline the output by only sending those with category of O365. Or maybe you need to see all Security & Compliance updates along with O365 and the rest, so you would need to omit posts with category Windows Desktop. Here are steps that you can take to modify the above Filter Array and why.
Consider this filter …
The Microsoft 365 Roadmap can be an invaluable source of information at times, although staying on top of the hundreds and hundreds of information it has to offer can be overwhelming. I've seen it advised by some to export the data to excel and move it to Power BI. That works great, although the context of this blog series is to have key information alert you so that there is no need for you or your team to check of your own back. With the power of Microsoft Flow, we will capture the new entries on the RSS feed and we will then send a weekly digest email.
Here is a glimpse of what the email output will look like.
For the ID of 43977 featured here, please see this link.
As you can see, each title is a hyperlink and directs you to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap where you can see full information as below: