Our clients are using their Flow accounts in conjunction with our platform to aggregate data from various sources. LinkedIn and Slack are two of the most commonly-requested sources, but despite a promising start with the first LinkedIn connector, support for reading data from either of them using Flow seems meagre at best.
Perhaps understandably, Slack, as it is a competing service to Yammer, might place limits on reading of data. According to its documentation, the slack API gives the ability to (at least) read messages, but none of that is exposed in Flow.
LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft. The Linkedin V2 Flow connector documentation allows sharing of articles and posts, and listing of followed companies - nothing to read the list of posts, even from the user's own account.
Less in-demand, but a symptom of the same problem is To-Do. The old Wunderlist connector made it very easy to read lists and items, but To-Do, Wunderlist's replacement since the Microsoft acquisition, only allows one-way operations. Add, create, and copy into. Nothing that makes it possible to to read To Do tasks.
PowerBI, another Microsoft product, gives no ability to pull reports via Flow (a very common requirements for users who want to show reports elsewhere than the PowerBI dashboard). And yet, PowerBI makes this possible via the API to non-Flow users!
Is the strategy for Flow really to connect data, or is ity moving to be more of an ingest platform?
