Microsoft Power Automate - Business Process Flows Introduction

[@craigbowen6321]

This is great guys...easy to follow, great visualization of the process...really well done.

[@Unbox747]

This is great, feels like I am sitting in the workspace with you

[@toddflint1532]

Thanks for this great, easy to understand intro...and for calling out the plan 2 requirement, we'd been chasing that one for a while!

[@JonJLevesque]

You are very welcome! I’m planning more videos on BPF as well!

[@malaurie24]

First time watching one of your videos. This was excellent and informative for a newbie like me. Thank!

[@JonJLevesque]

You are very welcome! :)

[@AudrieGordon]

FABULOUS overview! Thank you so much....we can now get started using BPFs everywhere! :)

[@JonJLevesque]

Thanks for commenting Audrie! Appreciate you :)

[@andreaswaldherr7008]

Hi Jon, thanks so much for this BPF Playlist. Helped a lot to get a good overview about CDS, model driven apps, flows and how to tie all together :-)

[@JonJLevesque]

My pleasure! That was exactly my hope! Thanks for taking a moment to comment Andreas, totally made my day! :)

[@andreaswaldherr7008]

Hi Jon! The Power Family has such a great potential. I have Implemented two Flows in our organization. One for our travel approval process and one for our room rental service. Bot use MS Forms as input interface, MS SharePoint Lists to store the data, status and files and Power BI which pulls the data from SharePoint to report statistics for our internal customers. I need only ~2 weeks - and I am not really a programmer. Our IT chief “programmed” a Power App which is used by our Facility Team to easily enter time-windows when our entrance doors needs to be open for public, to overcome a missing feature in our door control system. So as you can see you guys and girls from MS made our day!

[@robertopolo3073]

Hi Jon. Excellent video. I am starting in BPF and I just want to develop something like what you show in this video. There is a blog or website where you expose this scenario in detail. I would be very interested.

[@Scooterboy_and_others109]

Great Video. Curious, how was that integrated with PowerPoint Slide-deck. Any video pointer on those please?

[@yoshihirokawabataify]

Nice introduction of the Business Process Flow, thank you. 😁 I can feel what is it, what the difference of now Flow, what the scenario for use these. I hope AI for the Business Process Flow like next Microsoft Forms, like auto recommended questions.

[@shekobrain]

Hi Jon, Is there any video about the stage and field security? like who can view only or view and edit each field and stage?

[@jacek8889]

when to use BPF and when to use normal flows? is there any mark line? I try to use sharepoint list + flow to do process management

[@jodiehenry4334]

This series was SO helpful! However, could you please provide links for Karan? I would love to subscribe to his blog or channel if he has one!

[@JonJLevesque]

Hey Jodie! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Karan has unfortunately left the team and isn’t much of a social media person. I know.. it makes me sad too.. he was the coolest!

[@jodiehenry4334]

@@JonJLevesque Thank you!

[@MrBencoussens]

Great vid! But... how do you assign the BPF to the library or document ?

[@cgred81]

Yeah, would be great to understand this. Was the document shown on the entity form using an Iframe, or was this a custom control?

[@JonJLevesque]

I have a blog post coming to accompany this video. I’ll update the description today!

[@MrBencoussens]

Jon Levesque I keep checking back for the blog, so keen to learn more, are there other supporting artefacts on MS sites we could use?

[@MrBencoussens]

Ok so I’ve got a little way on this it seems you are creating this as a BFF using the Unified User Interface option, but I still can’t work out how to create he link to call the BFP, please can you explain the link string used! Looking forward to the blog

[@MrBencoussens]

Hi Jon, how are you going with the blog post?

[@joecrowerojo]

Hi Jon, thanks for doing this. The Plan 2 requirement, is that for builders of the BPF or all users of the BPF (kind of a non-starter)? Also, as other users have asked, I too would like to understand how to link to the BPF.

[@JonJLevesque]

That requirement is for all participants of the BPF

[@joecrowerojo]

@@JonJLevesque That's too bad. This does not make it very viable for us. Thanks for the reply though.

[@albeanudaniel]

thanks for this awsome info guys, do you know how can i change the language that i configure my bussiness process flow ? it is in my native language now and i want it to be in english, cannot find this setting. Thanks.

[@sandeepbhaskar1010]

Thanks for the video guys. It is very helpful, I have a requirement where i want to upload a file to the form can you give any idea or process to achieve that.

[@samantha1526]

Do we need Dynamics 365 to do Business Process WorkFlows? If the Business Work Flow Tab is available does that mean it should work (says PowerApp in menu bar). I believe I have Office 365 E1.

[@JonJLevesque]

No, you need CDS which comes with Flow plan 2 or PowerApps plan 2

[@charleschen7508]

Is this BPF based on power automate, power apps?

[@JonJLevesque]

Yes. Both and dataverse

[@michaelmurray7869]

Hey Jon, Can you make a BPF like the one shown in the intro video with the slide deck?

[@JonJLevesque]

Hey Michael, here is a blog post outlining how to build that one powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Flow-Community-Blog/Content-Reviews-with-Flow/ba-p/163989

[@TavandtheTadpole]

Hit like every time Karan says "That's exactly it".

[@andrewjameson5918]

Jon , great taster introduction to this offering, the first one I have seen. If I understand it right can this amalgamate many flows used in a process to one complete process or is it a completely different animal from flow itself.

[@JonJLevesque]

You are correct, you can use flows to start and all along this process as well.

[@notorious.big.elow97]

Looking to create a CAB request bpf that has multiple approvals from different entities. Is that possible?

[@oscarjmg]

Jon, let me ask you something. Are Business Process Flows exclusive to Dynamics 365, or can i use them with O365, we ran SAP and would like to use flow and integrate it with flow and Business Process Flows.

[@JonJLevesque]

Hey Oscar, currently BPF needs CDS to operate. In the future we may make it agnostic, but we aren’t there yet. Sorry!

[@chrissygeluk]

Thanks Oscar for asking this question! I had *assumed* BPF was a result of D365 too. My tenant is O365 E5 yet I added D365 Customer Engagement and that's when I noticed the BPF "tab" in my Flow. So I thought that was the cause. Thanks Jon for clarifying. Now I know that the BPF "tab" showed up when I created a CDS in my environments! ...would that be correct? 😉

[@jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj0]

Hey! I would love to see some connection options with Bing Ads (I work for MSFT) btw.

[@S1RD2]

what keyboard is that your using in the video?

[@JonJLevesque]

Haha, its one of the Microsoft Curve series.

[@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz9]

Can anyone explain in laymen terms, what connectors are, how to use etc. In MS teams?

[@JonJLevesque]

Hey there! Let me know if this video all about Teams and Flow helps - Microsoft Flow Tutorial - Microsoft Teams Connector kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3W9dmlqr6mBjtU

[@JonJLevesque]

Connectors are basically the other services you can connect to

[@RageTheNumbers]

Denied fist bump!