Marcel HaasJun 12, 20193 minConversations analytics in Microsoft Teams with Azure Cognitive ServicesI'm working on a new garage project, or better said "cellar project", as that's the place my home office is actually located, which I wan...
Marcel HaasJun 3, 20192 minMeet my Virtual AssistantsConversational AI is top of mind for me. In the last two years, I built several bots based on the Microsoft Bot Framework to learn about ...
Marcel HaasMay 7, 20191 minMicrosoft Build 2019 - Compact NewsBuild is running and it's deeply impressive how every single service, product and product groups are moving ahead in very fast speed and ...
Marcel HaasFeb 11, 20191 minReal Retweet's with Microsoft Flow and the Buffer custom connector - it's free!Currently, Microsoft Flow's Twitter Connector doesn't support direct @mentions from it's "Post a tweet" activity. Hashtags are supported,...
Marcel HaasJan 14, 20199 minMicrosoft Flow / State Machine / Introduction (1/8)In this blog series, you will learn how to apply a "State Pattern" based on Azure Queue Storage to your Flow solution architecture. This...
Marcel HaasJan 13, 20195 minSharePoint Advanced Document Approval with Microsoft FlowIn this article, you can learn how to build an enterprise document approval process for Modern SharePoint with Microsoft Flow. Introducti...
Marcel HaasJan 10, 20192 minMicrosoft Flow / State Machine / Controller Flow (3/8)Think of the “Controller Flow” as the main entity, handling the overall state of the process and being stateless itself. Compared to sof...
Marcel HaasJan 10, 20192 minMicrosoft Flow / State Machine / Worker Flows (4/8)Think of "Worker Flows" as small, dedicated Flows, executing specific process steps or activities. Kind of like a function in grown-up so...
Marcel HaasJan 9, 20192 minMicrosoft Flow / State Machine / Post processor Flow (5/8)Think of the post processor as a Worker Flow, primarly responsible to keep a centralized log of all approval activities and detailed proc...
Marcel HaasJan 8, 20192 minMicrosoft Flow / State Machine / Azure Storage Queues (6/8)Queues are providing us with enterprise software capabilities at our fingertips for a very reasonable price. The impact on the solution ...
Marcel HaasJan 8, 20191 minMicrosoft Flow / State Machine / Azure Table Storage (7/8)Error handling and notifications are a basic requirement piece of technology. This solution makes use of Azure Storage Tables to keep a c...
Marcel HaasJan 8, 20192 minMicrosoft Flow / State Machine / JSON State Message Object (8/8)State is transfered between controller and workers in a JSON object. This approach is very flexible and can basically contain any data, ...
Marcel HaasNov 20, 20182 minTop 5 benefits of using a State Machine Pattern in Microsoft FlowAs you already might have noticed, I'm a big fan of state patterns in Flow. Please read my top 5 reason why and see if you can benefit fr...
Marcel HaasJul 23, 20184 minHow I messed up one Microsoft Flow Project and what I learntBack in early 2018, a customer asked for a recommendation to replace their SharePoint 2010 OOTB document approval workflows with a more m...
Marcel HaasJul 21, 20185 minA pragmatic approach on scope based error handling in Microsoft FlowError handling and notifications are a basic requirement piece of technology. In #Flow, error handling is currently still in Kindergarden...
