{"id":110967,"date":"2018-08-31T09:32:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/test-data-management-connectors\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T09:32:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T16:32:23","slug":"test-data-management-connectors","status":"publish","type":"power-automate","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/test-data-management-connectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Test your flows with real example data, and four new management connectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Test your flow by using real example data<\/h2>\n<p>Creating a flow may require some trial and error during the development process. Starting this week, you can use real, example, data from connectors to test your flow as you build it, right inside of the Flow portal. Once you are ready to test a flow select the <strong>Test <\/strong>button in the command bar at the top of your screen.\u00a0In the Test pane, there are now three options for testing your flow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manually trigger the test yourself by doing the action that triggers the flow. For example, you can go to your inbox and send yourself a test email. Or, you can go to SQL and insert a row.<\/li>\n<li>Use data from previous runs to perform the test.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Let Flow trigger the test by using example data that in pulls from the connector. For example, if you use the\u00a0<strong>When a new email arrives<\/strong>\u00a0trigger, the Flow portal will automatically get the most recent email from your inbox and use that to test your flow. Or, if you use a SQL Server trigger, it will find a row in SQL that matches the query you pass.\u00a0<\/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\/test-data-1.png\" style=\"width: 627px; height: 209px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Note, however, that not all options are available for all types of triggers.\u00a0As of today we have added this capability to four connectors:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Office 365 Outlook<\/li>\n<li>SQL Server<\/li>\n<li>Gmail<\/li>\n<li>Outlook.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over time, we will add this new way to test triggers to other connectors.<\/p>\n<h2>Five new connectors<\/h2>\n<p>This week we have added four new management connectors. As you can read in Kent&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/blog\/security-governance-strategy\/\"><strong>Power platform Security &amp; Governance: Deploying a Defense in Depth Strategy<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0blog post, these connectors, plus the existing Flow Management connector, are a new and important part of how you can manage Flow inside of your organization. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/connectors\/shared_powerappsforappmakers\/powerapps-for-app-makers\/\">PowerApps for App Makers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/connectors\/shared_powerplatformforadmins\/power-platform-for-admins\/\">Power platform for Admins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/connectors\/shared_powerappsforadmins\/powerapps-for-admins\/\">PowerApps for Admins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/connectors\/shared_microsoftflowforadmins\/microsoft-flow-for-admins\/\">Microsoft Flow for Admins<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about these new connectors in Denise&#8217; blog post here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/blog\/new-connectors-for-powerapps-and-flow-resources\/\"><strong>Announcing new Admin and Maker Connectors for PowerApps and Flow<\/strong><\/a>.<\/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\/test-data-2.png\" style=\"width: 473px; height: 151px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Finally we have also added a new <a href=\"https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/connectors\/shared_microsoftschooldatasync\/microsoft-school-data-sync\/\">Microsoft School Data Sync<\/a> connector &#8212; simplify class management in Office 365. School Data Sync reads rosters from your SIS and creates classes and groups for Microsoft Teams, Intune for Education, and third party applications. Connect to School Data Sync to upload school and roster information, manage your sync profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating a flow may require some trial and error during the development process. Starting this week, you can use real, example, data from connectors to test your flow as you build it, right inside of the Flow portal. Now you can know that the flow will run as expected. 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