The Azure logic apps team conducted their eighth monthly Google Hangout session on February 25, 2016. The session kicked off with the latest improvements that have happened over the last month.
Designer Improvements
The Logic Apps team rolled out a refreshed version of the Azure Logic Apps Preview with improvements to the designer. The improved designer comes with a lot of new capabilities such as:
Cleaner and simpler user interface
Improved Visual Flow (top to bottom flow with decision tree branches showing up on the side)
Managed Connectors
Manual Triggers and Responses – easily construct your logic app as a request+response capability. You no longer need to use the HTTP Listener connector any more to achieve the request-response mechanism.
Get a first class experience with the HTTP + Swagger connector within the designer
If-else conditions within the designer itself. No need to open up the code view to look into the conditions box.
Managed APIs
This is one of the major improvements. In the earlier version, when you wanted to add a connection to a service (such as OneDrive), Logic Apps would deploy a connector in your subscription as an API app. This made the Logic Apps deployment more complex. Now, there are a set of reliable and scalable API connections that are already deployed that can be easily included into the Logic App. This article provides the complete list of APIs that are currently supported out-of-the-box.
What’s Coming Next?
Run Now with Recurrence triggers
The current designer preview refresh only support Run Now for manual triggers. This capability will be extended for recurrence triggers as well in the coming weeks.
Designer support for parallel actions
Designer Improvements
Support for parallel actions
Auto discovery of custom APIs
Auto discovery of workflows
Flow Monitoring
Gives a nice view of looking at the workflow history with the designer
Enabling Salesforce Sandbox
Improved trigger user experience
If you are working on logic apps and have something interesting, feel free to share them with the Azure Logic Apps team via email or you can tweet to them at @logicappsio. You can also vote for features that you feel are important and that you’d like to see in logic apps here.
You can watch the full video here to get a feel of the new designer and lots more functionalities that are now available in the preview.
Previous Updates
In case you missed the earlier updates from the Logic Apps team, take a look at our recap blogs here –
