In this  digital transformation  era i mplementing AI and Cognitive services into any of our service and application where ever possible plays one of crucial role improving end-user/customer/business decision and overall experience. Let's us see a scenario for Ratsub Tech (A Fictional company) is B2B & B2C e-commerce retailer who is interested to understand "UserVoice" e-Mail by tracking its mailbox to understand user experience/sentiment towards their purchases. Create a form to capture User recent purchase and provide a placeholder to fill their thoughts or you can also use adaptive forms will see about this later. At this point assume there is an interface for end-user to fill and send back there 'UserVoice'.  Setup an e-Mail rule and move these emails(i.e. To:uservoice@ratsubtech.com) to "Support" folder. //Sample e-mail template for this usecase From: rathanavel@live.in To: uservoice@ratsubtech.com Subject: CustomerID^639~Product...

In my previous article we saw  how to Upload attachment to SharePoint list item using Microsoft Flow , as  a continuation will upload attachment using JavaScript(ajax) with MSFlow endpoint. First, Open your flow and copy the endpoint url from 'HTTP request trigger'. Append listname & itemid  in the URL Finally, Test it Detailed steps Trigger MSFlow to upload document using ajax Check out previous  series  for reference.  I recommend reading the  PowerApps scratch development series ,  Azure Function integration with PowerApps  and  What is Microsoft Flow . -Ratsub

"Text Analysis" is one of the Microsoft Cognitive Services offering on Azure. Here will see how to create "Text Analysis" services. First, Login in to https://portal.azure.com  and search for Cognitive Services Click "Create cognitive services" and search for "Text Analytics API" Fill the details as below Your endpoint and keys are ready  In upcoming articles will see how to use this on different use cases. -Ratsub

Microsoft Flow is one of the Microsoft offerings for automation. In this series will see how to upload a file to SharePoint ListItem using MSFlow Workflow for our scenario Login to Microsoft Flow site  and log in to create a new flow. Add action and Type 'Data Operations' connector. Then choose 'Data operations - Compose' action Select 'Expression' tab and enter the following to create 'ListName' variable Repeat this process for all other variables  ListName - SharePoint list name. ItemID     - SPList item ID. AttachmentContent - Actual attachment content. FileName - Attchment name. Expressions: we can read values from Query String will discuss how to pass them next article. ListName: trigger() [ 'outputs' ][ 'queries' ][ 'listname' ] ItemID: trigger() [ 'outputs' ][ 'queries' ][ 'itemid' ] At...

In today Agile tech industry clients want zero downtime and quick turn around time from dev to prod, with more these process integration like continues development to continues deployment and so on.. (other DevOps process). With these process automation, each team Dev/Testing/QA/Admin all can perform their role easily and independently without any flow caveat till deployment and finally customer is happy 😊 Microsoft Azure has this capability in-build without and additional cost and it supports multiple cloud supported repos. out of which GitHub is also supporting this integration which is widely used by the opensource community. Steps for Angular 5 continues deployment using GitHub On the high-level, we need perform below steps ng build --prod --aot install kudu support update .cmd file using kudo script Commit to GitHub branch. Done! Check the portal. What is --AOT angular 5 The Angular Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compiler converts your Angular HTML and TypeScript code i...

I have already discussed How to Create, Configure and Deploy AzureFunction using VisualStudio  and how to create swagger(OpenApi) endpoint for AzureFunctions .  So, In this article will see how to import and use them in PowerApps & MSFlow .  Upon completion of yaml  definition creation, Click->Export to PowerApps + Flow button or copy the API definition URL. Alternatively you can also download  ApiDef.json file. Go to  https://web.powerapps.com  and authenticate then select 'Custom Connectors' from the left navigation. Then Click Create custom connector->Import an OpenApi from URL as mentioed below. Enter function secret code which we copied earlier, Then name the connector and click Contiue. Now, Fill values in each wizard General -> Upload/configure connector icon. Security -> In my scenario I used 'Function' scope access. configure it as appropriate. Definition -...