{"id":110970,"date":"2018-08-24T08:44:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/button-types-more\/"},"modified":"2018-08-24T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T15:44:11","slug":"button-types-more","status":"publish","type":"power-automate","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/button-types-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved Calendar, SharePoint, Approval, Button and Connector capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"
Are you looking for a template that really “Synchronize” your calendar between Google and Outlook? Checkout these new templates we recently created for you.<\/p>\n
These new templates have 2 key advantages compare to any existing calendar synchronization templates:<\/p>\n
Usually we search for any templates in templates searching page https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/templates\/. To look for these templates, select “Event and calendar” category and\/or type in keywords like “Google Office 365 calendar sync” and you’ll find them in the result.<\/p>\n
Another way is visiting the templates via direct links as below:<\/p>\n
Let’s start with a simple demo of setup calendar synchronization between Google Calendar and Outlook.com Calendar by creating 2 flows from templates.<\/p>\n
One final limition – today All-day events created from Outlook.com or Office 365 Outlook may be offset due to your timezone in Google Calendar. We are working on resolving this issue in a future version of the template.<\/p>\n
Using the SharePoint connector, you can now both read and write to multiple-value fields in SharePoint like Choice, Person, or Lookup. For example, in the image below, we\u2019re writing to a multi-value lookup column called Turbines. In Flow, we can either select individual Turbine items or enter an entire array.<\/p>\n
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This week we\u2019re also pleased to announce a much-requested feature allowing Flow creators to send approval requests on behalf of others in their organization. For example, let\u2019s imagine that you\u2019re Chris in the IT division for a publishing company and you\u2019ve been tasked with building a document approval flow for the Design team. This flow is triggered whenever a new file is added in SharePoint. Furthermore, let\u2019s suppose Adele, another user in your organization, uploads a document triggering the flow. Previously, the approval request would appear to come from Chris and would be listed in his Sent requests. Now, using the brand-new Requestor field in the Approvals connector, Chris can determine who the approval is for – the file creator or Adele in this case. Furthermore, the request would be shown under Adele\u2019s Sent requests tab in the Approvals Center in Flow. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Flow authored by Chris:<\/p>\n
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Document uploaded by Adele:<\/p>\n
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Request sent to approver (Nestor) for Adele:<\/p>\n
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Button flows are a great way to have a flow get kicked off instantly by anyone in your organization. Button flows can collect additional inputs from the person starting the flow, such as a photo or an email address. This month we’re adding two additional input types:<\/p>\n
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You can then use these new types when you Run a flow – including in the Flow app for iOS and Android, the web portal, and when running flows inside of SharePoint or Excel.<\/p>\n
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There is one new partner connector this week:\u00a0NetDocuments<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>–\u00a0NetDocuments is a cloud content management service for businesses of all sizes to securely create, store, manage and share their document work anywhere, anytime. There is also a new version of the\u00a0Video Indexer<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0connector (V2) – we recommend that you move to that if you’re currently using the version 1 of the Video Indexer connector.\u00a0<\/p>\n This month there are many updates for existing connectors:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n One final important note, the IP addresses for connectors will be updated on September 1st, 2018. This means that if you have currently whitelisted any connector IP addresses (for example, to allow access to a SQL database), you will need to add the new IP addresses to the whitelist. You can see the full details of the IP addresses here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This August, we released new calendar templates that copy events between Google Calendar and Office 365 or Outlook.com. Second, we now support read and write for multiple-value fields in SharePoint that are Choice, Person or Lookup types. Third, you can now send approvals on behalf of other users in your organization – for example, the person who uploaded the file in the SharePoint list, instead of the person who created the flow. Fourth, buttons have two new input types: Number and Yes\/No. Finally, there are improvements to several connectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":347,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","power-automate-category":[2752],"power-automate-tag":[],"coauthors":[2913],"class_list":["post-110970","power-automate","type-power-automate","status-publish","hentry","power-automate-category-product-updates"],"yoast_head":"\n\n