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Enterprise Integration with Azure Logic Apps

By : Matthew Bennett
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Enterprise Integration with Azure Logic Apps

By: Matthew Bennett

Overview of this book

Logic Apps are a visual flowchart-like representation of common programming actions, and are a flexible way to create logic without writing a single line of code. Enterprise Integration with Azure Logic Apps is a comprehensive introduction for anyone new to Logic Apps which will boost your learning skills and allow you to create rich, complex, structured, and reusable logic with instant results. You'll begin by discovering how to navigate the Azure portal and understand how your objects can be zoned to a specific environment by using resource groups. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you the benefits and foundations of Logic App logic design. As you advance, you'll find out how to manage your Azure environment in relation to Logic Apps and how to create elegant and reliable Logic Apps. With useful and practical explanations of how to get the most out of Logic App actions and triggers, you'll be able to ensure that your Logic Apps work efficiently and provide seamless integration for real-world scenarios without having to write code. By the end of this Logic Apps book, you'll be able to create complex and powerful Logic Apps within minutes, integrating large amounts of data on demand, enhancing your systems, and linking applications to improve user experience.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Logic App Fundamentals
7
Section 2: Logic App Design
13
Section 3: Logic App Maintenance and Management

Updating a record and series of records with ForEach

The preceding exercise can be reversed – you can easily update records found in one system that already exist in another. In my example, I have a sandbox environment and a development environment. Both contain similar sets of data and are created from the same data image (so the GUIDs will match), but the data in the sandbox is old and needs to be refreshed with data from the development environment. We can extend our ForEach section to update the records.

Exercise – updating a record in an existing environment

For this exercise, we will update Dave and Hayley (who are both doctors) to have the "Dr." title.

In my CRM system, I first obtain from Power Automate, or from checking the Contact Types lookup, the GUID for the Dr record. As my CRM is using lookups to other sub-entities as opposed to optionset values, GUIDs are used to identify the record in question:

  1. I first navigate to the Person...