[AccessD] are PowerApps destined to fly?

[Darryl Collins]

" Still unlear how they (MS) plan to manage authorization/authentication/flows for the case when a user with one smartphone/tablet is registered in several Office 365 cloud setups - say in a family, a company, a community... - and there is just one MS Flow and MS PowerApps app/front-end/runtime on a phone..."

Yeah.  This used to be a big issue.  MS are getting better at managing this (for example you can now link in multiple one drive accounts from different Office 365 sign-ins to a single PC) but having to juggle between accounts and options is still a pain at times.

Especially as different Office 365 packages allow you to access different apps.

I think MS are aware of it, but not sure how to make a seamless experience of it.

Cheers
Darryl.



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Subject: Re: [AccessD] are PowerApps destined to fly?

Hi Gustav --

The features, except the absence of the general purpose programming language, seems to be rather elaborated.
But the absense of the general purpose programming language shouldn't be a stopper as PowerApps use flows (MS Flow) and Common Data Services with Entities and the latter could be facades for any rich data sources including REST APIs, so, in general, any functionality can be(?) implemented using Entities and flows with push notifications - in cloud based distributed mega-apps...

Still unlear how they (MS) plan to manage authorization/authentication/flows for the case when a user with one smartphone/tablet is registered in several Office 365 cloud setups - say in a family, a company, a community... - and there is just one MS Flow and MS PowerApps app/front-end/runtime on a phone...

As for distribution, if you plan to develop PowerApps just for your organization/Office 365 setup then the distriution is easy - just publish your PowerApp within your Office 365 setup and make it available for the other users of your setup. 

But you probably mean distribution for your customers having their own Office 365 setups?  - then you can try to save PowerApp bundle locally as *.msapp file and import it from *.msapp file in your customer environment. This approach looks like a (dirty) trick but it could work. BTW, *.msapp is just a zip archive of PowerApp meta-information/-structure - is it a well known fact?

Shamil


>Monday, July 24, 2017 11:25 PM +03:00 from Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk>:
>
>Hi Shamil
>
>The not-so-easy distribution is a show stopper for us, as is the currently very limited features.
>As Jim, I just keep an eye on PowerApps.
>
>/gustav
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>Emne: [AccessD] are PowerApps destined to fly?
>
>Hi All --
>
>What is your opinion - is there any/good business opportunity for consultants/contractors/ISVs here
>
>"PowerApps for Microsoft partners and ISVs":  https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/tutorials/dev-isv-partner-intro/
>
>?
>
>FYI: I have MS Office 365 Dev account and I have created from ready-to-use templates a sample PowerApp, and I have run it on desktop and in my Windows Phone - (surprisingly) it worked rather well. It should also run on Android phone/tablet and iPhone/iPad by using special app as it runs on Windows Phone using similar app.
>
>As far as I see currently PowerApps can only be shared within an organization/Office 365/Dynamics 365 common subscription and/or installed from public AppStore but to get a PowerApp published there at public AppStore one have to become MS Partner, get PowerApps Plan 2 subscription worth $40/month  and a developed app has to pass a special verification and certification procedure.
>
>Thank you.
>
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