{"id":110899,"date":"2017-09-25T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/q3-2017-update\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T08:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:11:48","slug":"q3-2017-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/q3-2017-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Q3 Update for Microsoft Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft Flow and PowerApps have continued to see huge adoption from business users. Combined, they have more than 1 million monthly active users across 213k organizations in 193 countries. Since we launched 12 months ago, we\u2019ve been working to realize the vision of a single low code\/no code app platform that makes it easier for every business user to create, augment and extend business applications.<\/p>\n

The next major milestone for Microsoft Flow is Ignite 2017. At Ignite we have several announcements, as well numerous Microsoft and customer-led sessions. You can read here<\/a> all the content being presented this week in Orlando. These major Ignite announcements join the other key features released over the past quarter \u2013 notably a new feature called Flow collections<\/a>, which presents a set of template collections organized by vertical.<\/p>\n

Deeper SharePoint integration<\/h2>\n

Microsoft SharePoint Online is one of the most popular services to use with Microsoft Flow \u2013 and since Microsoft Flow is the successor to SharePoint Workflow we are focusing on even deeper integrations with SharePoint.<\/p>\n

Work with more columns in SharePoint lists \u2013 <\/strong>in the past month we shared how you could use Person, Choice and Lookup fields<\/a>, as well as read and set document metadata<\/a>. Now, even more SharePoint lists are supported in flow with actions to add or download attachments on list items.\u00a0Plus, you can now read data from columns that have multiple values, such as multi-choice or multi-person.<\/p>\n

In-the-box Flows for streamlined collaboration<\/strong> – Flows themselves can be surfaced in more diverse ways inside of the SharePoint UI \u2013 it will be possible to include a Flow button as a cell on each row of a SharePoint list using the new column formatter,\u00a0and to launch flows that prompt users for information to use within the flow. All this functionality will complete public rollout in the coming month.<\/p>\n

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Additionally, to make it easier to get started, even for completely non-technical users, all SharePoint lists and document libraries will ship with an \u201cin-the-box\u201d review workflow that doesn\u2019t require any configuration \u2013 just select a file, enter a reviewer, and go.<\/p>\n

Content approvals<\/strong> – Finally, we are announcing that later this year, you will be able to set the content approval status of SharePoint items from flows. Including this action in flows alongside the existing Flow approval system will allow customers to have a single, centralized view of all approval requests.<\/p>\n

Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement integration<\/h2>\n

Flow is included in the Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement 9.0 Release. This adds the ability for every end user of the product to create and trigger flows directly from the action menu. Now, powerful multi-step actions can be constructed by business analysts and easily invoked, even across multiple records at the same time.<\/p>\n

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Buttons for teams, better than ever<\/h2>\n

Flow buttons are now better than ever\u2014when you share buttons with your co-workers, they can then share<\/a> the buttons with others, making it easier to distribute flows inside an organization. Read how The Finnish\u00a0Sulava\u00a0company<\/a>\u00a0created and shared buttons to help their team achieve their goals.\u00a0Flow buttons<\/a> are also getting richer with new input types such as file, email, and dropdowns in the coming month. These new inputs can collect data from users on the go \u2013 with Flow buttons on mobile devices, employees for example can quickly snap a picture of an issue while creating a ticket, or snap a picture of a receipt to trigger a flow which submits expense reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Visibility and trust for Enterprises<\/h2>\n

It is vital to give IT Administrators visibility into how products are used inside their organizations. We have three announcements supporting this.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Flow in the Microsoft Trust Center<\/strong> \u2013 The Business Application Platform \u2013 Microsoft Flow, PowerApps and Power BI are now available in the Microsoft Trust Center<\/a>. There, you can read about the security capabilities of Flow<\/a> and see the locations that data is stored<\/a>. We are happy to announce that the public attestations for our compliance certifications<\/a> are now live, including:<\/p>\n