Sunday 16 December 2018

Conditionals in Microsoft Flow for RSS feed processing

For the Flow aficionados amongst you, check out the Flow online conference videos on YouTube.
 
I've referred to the golden age of web 2.0 in Yahoo! in a previous post. One of the cool products of that time was Yahoo! Pipes that provided effectively pipework for RSS feeds. 

With similar applications in mind, Microsoft flow can be a worthy replacement. I needed to only retrieve the web page linked from an RSS feed if the title contains a particular keyword. See the screenshot below. The flow web editor does not allow for dragging and dropping an action into the alternative paths following the conditional. I guess this will be a possibility when editing Flows in Visio becomes available. This might look like a peculiar combination to those of us who think of Visio as a tool for drawing diagrams, but Visio already has Sharepoint workflow functionality, and Microsoft Flow is to replace Sharepoint workflows as you'll hear in the conference videos.


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