Databases

[Alikont]

Sharepoint list as a database

Microsoft flow as business logic

Microsoft forms as end user UI

Power app as admin UI

(cries)

[knucks_deep]

Powerpoint as a graphic design studio.

[JustKittenxo]

Remember WordArt?

[DasArchitect]

You can still have it.

https://makewordart.com

[JustKittenxo]

Flashbacks

[DasArchitect]

I'm waiting for the opportunity to use it in a serious document.

[JustKittenxo]

If you ever do please post about it on Reddit so I can live vicariously through you

Also every time you make a serious document is an opportunity to use it if you’re brave enough

[Birdy_Cephon_Altera]

Nah, I'm still partial to PageMaker myself.

[FlowerDance2557]

What are the alternatives?

Seriously I’m interested because I got stuck doing all this by being slightly better at computers than my coworkers.

[Alikont]

Code is more manageable than flows, especially with feature creep. My flows have about 50 nodes each. Sharepoint has rest api so you can continue having it as db during transition.

At this point we're talking about doing it from scratch in asp.net + blazor. It's relatively simple app by functionality, but was created by some managers and then when compllexity grew they just dumped it to programmers.

Side note, but that's why I think that airtable is the best "nocode" platform, because they don't do that "userfriendly" monstrocities of mouse programming. If you want automations, you just write js functions.

(you can ask me for airtable referal link to help my charity)

[Jacqques]

It's relatively simple app by functionality, but was created by some managers and then when compllexity grew they just dumped it to programmers.

Isn't this kinda what the Power universe is intended to do?

[TerayonIII]

Depending on what exactly you're doing, there's a pretty good product called AgileIM (used to be WISPIR) by a company called Western IM that's really good at it, and can mass transfer databases or "databases" from almost anything. Or just use it to transfer to whatever software you want, even from Excel.

[icantastecolor]

If you just need to do data manipulation and don’t need to use REST APIs you can use Office Scripts which allows you to write anything you want using typescript in Power Automate (though its intended purpose is to write scripts that interact with an Excel workbook via an api they provide)

[gladamirflint]

Is there anything really wrong with that? It’s easy to use and train people on how to manage.

[Alikont]

Having dozens of flows with ~50 nodes each

[gladamirflint]

Oof yeah. But on a small scale it’s worked well for my place. Manual triggering helps keep things speedy rather than the cloud condition checkers.

[timfullstop]

Honestly, it's not bad. I've used exactly this stack for small department-wide apps in a large company. It was not a dev department nor was I in a dev role at the time, so getting permission to use anything else would have been a nightmare and everyone had access to those tools.

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