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Use of Expression in Microsoft flow through an example

Most of the basic flows can be configured using the templates provided by Microsoft. But in real time we will be developing flows which have complexity. Expression play an important role in fulfilling the requirements. Scenario : -  We have project details list which has the below columns, we need to intimate the project team before 2 days of the end date. (Please note that this scenario is picked up from one of the Microsoft insight demo) The following points needs to be implemented ·          Only title and End time are mandatory fields, Start time if not entered needs to be taken as the current date. ·          Number of days is the difference between the start time and end time.   ·          Email needs to be sent before 2 days of the end date. ·          If any attachments they nee...

Syncing calendar events from outlook to Gmail calendar using Flow.

Recently I started working on Microsoft flow for one of the client where we are migrating the workflows from SPD (SharePoint designer) to Microsoft flow.  I liked flow for the way  we can automate some of the small daily tasks.    Flow  provides  us connectors through which we can connect many applications to the flow like  Gmail .  Flow gives us lot of templates which we can start with or create a new flow starting from  b la nk .    Scenario:-     I want to sync my outlook calendar (company) to my google calendar which is  available on my android phone.   S ync ing  my  company's  calendar which helps me in tracking of my events on my mobile.    Prerequisites:-     Having a Microsoft online account for log ging into the Microsoft flow.   Trigger :-     A new calendar event on the Microsoft outlook calendar.   ...