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At connect(); 2015 this year, Microsoft announced some new Azure App Service features relating to Logic Apps and API Apps (watch the video here:https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Visual-Studio/Connect-event-2015/909).
Stephen Siciliano (@iscsus) gave a ten-minute session on current and new features for AAS (Azure App Service).
Included in the new features:
1) Logic Apps will be able to consume *any* web app that has a Swagger Interface i.e. not just Azure API Apps – you could consume an API App hosted in AWS, or on-premise. |
2) WebHooks are on the way (this was discussed in the last LogicAppsIO Community WebCast) – now you can call out to other services in the middle of your flow and wait for a response: |
3) A new Logic Apps Designer. Stephen only showed a quick demo using the new designer, but we can already see some awesome new features:
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4) Included in the new designer: token support. Instead of having to remember the outputs of a previous API App, now those outputs appear as Token, little tiles you can drag into the formula fields in your API App e.g. for the body of an email, you can drag a Token that represents the output of a previous API App e.g. Tweet Text. How cool is this? |
Unfortunately, it looks like we’ll have to wait till Q1 2016 to get our hands on this functionality, but I’m sure it will be worth the wait – I’m very excited about a new designer: as much as I respect the current Logic Apps designer, a new designer is one of my most hoped-for feature requests for the AAS team!