{"id":110755,"date":"2016-10-16T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T17:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/early-october-updates\/"},"modified":"2016-10-16T10:58:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T17:58:06","slug":"early-october-updates","status":"publish","type":"power-automate","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/early-october-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Early October updates for Microsoft Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past two weeks we&#8217;ve introduced a few new features to improve the connectivity and power of Microsoft Flow.<\/p>\n<h2>Custom APIs support more authentication types<\/h2>\n<p>Custom APIs are the way to extend what Microsoft Flow connects to (beyond our built-in connections). You can use Custom APIs to create flows that talk to almost any HTTP endpoint that supports JSON. However, getting authentication to work with Custom APIs can sometimes be a challenge. This is now easier with our improved custom API experience:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/earlyoct-customAPI.png\" style=\"width: 501px; height: 450px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>First, custom APIs now support API Key authentication. This means you can define a header or a query string that will be sent on all of the requests to your API. Second, Custom APIs now can authenticate against any service that supports the full OAuth 2.0 specification. This requires you to provide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Client ID<\/li>\n<li>Client secrete<\/li>\n<li>Authorization URL<\/li>\n<li>Token URL<\/li>\n<li>Refresh URL<\/li>\n<li>Scopes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/en-us\/tutorials\/register-custom-api\/\">about Custom APIs here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Three new services supported<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;ve added support for three new services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/services\/shared_basecamp\/\">Basecamp 3<\/a> &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0a tool that helps teams work together. It provides a dashboard to manage all messaging, document collaboration, scheduling and task management together in one place.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/services\/shared_blogger\/\">Blogger <\/a>&#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0a blog publishing service. It allows you to create websites and post to them on an ongoing basis.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/services\/shared_pagerduty\/\"><strong>PagerDuty<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>&#8211;\u00a0a help desk tool used to manage and dispatch service requests within support teams.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/earlyoct-basecamp3.png\" style=\"width: 583px; height: 144px;\"\/><\/p>\n<h2>Designer improvements<\/h2>\n<p>One of our focuses in the past few weeks has been to improve the performance of the flow designer. Creating and editing flows should now be much faster and smoother than it was before.<\/p>\n<p>Second, you can now update and repair your connections right from the &#8220;&#8230;&#8221; menu for every action. This is much faster than going to the connection management page:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/earlyoct-fixconnections.png\" style=\"width: 267px; height: 307px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Third, we have added a new step called <strong>Terminate\u00a0<\/strong>that you can use to end a flow&#8217;s run. This will be useful when used inside a condition, for example, you can do a series of checks and only continue the workflow if all of these pass. 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