In the latest installment of the logicappsio webcast, Jeff Hollan and Kevin
Lam covered off new features released this month, and also talked about what is coming
up – you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iZc1i9d7y0.
Of note in this webcast:
Released features this month:
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Updated Designer now released – now the cards are smaller, it’s a nicer
mechanism for adding triggers/actions, and the cards run vertically instead of horizontally.
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We now have support for manual triggers e.g. a manual HTTP trigger which replaces
the v1 HTTP Listener
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There’s a new Response action which can be used to send a response back
to a waiting party (i.e. solicit-response)
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There’s a new action called “HTTP + Swagger” which allows
you to supply a Swagger endpoint, and the designer will read the Swagger and give
you a first-class experience in using your API App i.e. will show trigger actions,
documentation etc.
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If/Else conditions are now supported in the designer.
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The “connectors” we used in the old designer have been replaced
by Managed API Apps – these are also known as Connections. These are v2 API Apps,
and no longer use the gateway service or Zumo tokens, and Microsoft host these connections
for us. You can also use any custom API app as well, as long as it has a Swagger/Swashbuckle
API.
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The trigger blade will now show you the Shared Access Signature URL needed to
post to the trigger directly. Additionally logic apps will support multiple triggers
(the designer doesn’t yet support this).
Features coming up soon:
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Adding support so that recurrence trigger can be run-now i.e. run immediately
– today this is only supported for the manual triggers.
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Support for parallel actions in the new designer (this should be very cool –
convoys anyone?!)
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Auto discovery of custom APIs – they talked about how any API Apps you have
in your Resource Group will appear in a separate list, which is awesome. The idea
that you can call any API you like is very powerful. Link this isn with Azure
API Management Services and you get a very powerful set of tools.
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Auto discovery of workflows – you’ll be able to call another Logic App,
and you’ll see a list of those logic apps inside your logic app.
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Flow monitoring – you get a view of your logic app history, but from inside
the designer so you can see which paths were taken, which were skipped (a bit like
the old Orchestration Debugger I imagine in BizTalk).
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Support for the Salesforce sandbox endpoint.
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The trigger experience in the new designer will get better – there will be more
information on the trigger card.
Jeff then took us through a demo of how to use a v1 API App in the new designer
(using the JSON Encoder BizTalk Connector as an example).
Jeff has also expanded on my blog post about using BizTalk/v1 connectors in
the new designer, and has included details on how to add the Swagger/Swashbuckle details
to your API App so that the new designer will be able to list any BizTalk/v1 API Apps
you have defined in your Resource Group – you can read Jeff’s post here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/logicapps/archive/2016/02/25/accessing-v1-apis-and-biztalk-apis-from-logic-apps.aspx.
