The Crisis Communication app provides a user-friendly experience to connect end users with information about a crisis. Quickly get updates on internal company news, get answers to frequently asked questions, and get access to important information like links and emergency contacts. This app requires a small amount of setup to make it your own.
Read the blog announcement here.
In the walk through provided in the documentation, you will learn how to:
- Create a location for your data
- Import both the Crisis Communication app and its admin app
- Create content for the app
- Import flows to send notifications to users
- Create a centrally managed Teams team to aggregate data and to effectively respond to issues
Please read the full documentation for installation instructions and more details https://aka.ms/crisis-communication-app-docs.
| Component | Filename | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint list creation flow | DeploySPLists.zip GCC: DeploySPLists.zip No Outlook: DeploySPLists.NoOutlook.zip |
Creates the lists necessary to hold the data in the app. |
| End-user app and send a request flow | CrisisCommunication.zip GCC: CrisisCommunicationGCC.zip No Outlook: CrisisCommunicationNoOutlook.zip & CrisisCommunication.Request.NoOutlook |
Displays content to the end-user and submits requests to the central crisis management team. |
| Admin application | CrisisCommunicationAdmin.zip GCC: CrisisCommunicationAdmin.zip No Outlook: CrisisCommunicationAdmin.zip |
Allows the crisis management team to update the content in the end-user app |
| News push notification flow | CrisisCommunicationNewsNotification.zip GCC: CrisisCommunicationNewsNotificationGCC.zip No Outlook: CrisisCommunicationNewsNotification.NoOutlook.zip |
Sends a push notification to end-users whenever there is a new internal company update |
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If you have already completed the steps in the documentation for Crisis Communication, it is not necessary to redo every step again. Follow these steps to import the individual app or flow which you would like to update.
Start by downloading the new CrisisCommunicationPackage.zip file from this github repository. See the Latest Update section for a table of the latest versions.
Important: updating an app will replace any customizations you have made to the template. Please document any revisions to menus and formulas separately before proceeding. You can also save the original app to your computer as an .msapp file and open it in another browser tab to copy content over to the new version. Note that you can always revert to a previous version by accessing the version history of an app.
To update an app:
- Extract an app you would like to update. For example, if you want to update the Crisis Communication app, extract CrisisCommunication.zip. See the table for Package contents for more details.
- Go to make.powerapps.com
- Sign in.
- From the left pane, click Apps.
- From the top menu, click Import.
- Browse for the zip file you extracted. The page will change to the import experience.
- Instead of creating a new app as done in the original setup instructions, click "Create new" to reveal more options.
- A pane appears on the right. Below Setup, change the drop down menu to "Update."
- A list of apps in the environment appears in the right pane. Select the app which you would like to overwrite. Note that it is possible to revert an app to a previous version as desired.
- Select a connection for each connection required.
- Click import and wait for the import to complete.
- When the import is complete, open the app in the Power Apps studio.
- From the ribbon, click View > Data sources. In the left pane for Data sources, remove the existing connections to SharePoint.
- In the same left pane for Data sources, type 'SharePoint' into the search bar at the top.
- Select SharePoint and your connection. A pane will appear on the right to browse for the exact site and lists.
- In the right pane, select the SharePoint site where your lists for Crisis Communication are located. If the site does not appear in this list, type its URL in the field at the top of the pane.
- Click Connect.
- Save and publish the app: File > Save. Publish.
To update a flow:
- Extract the flow you would like to update. Note that if you have already deployed the SharePoint lists using the DeploySPLists flow, it is not necessary nor possible to create them again in the same site as they already exist.
- Go to flow.microsoft.com
- Sign in.
- From the left pane, click 'My flows.'
- From the top menu, click Import.
- Browse for the zip file you extracted. The page will change to the import experience.
- Instead of creating a new flow as done in the original setup instructions, click "Create new" to reveal more options.
- A pane appears on the right. Below Setup, change the drop down menu to "Update."
- A list of flows in the environment appears in the right pane. Select the app which you would like to overwrite.
- Select a connection for each connection required.
- Click import and wait for the import to complete.
- Flows that are imported for the first time may be disabled. It may be necessary to edit the flow and in its details page, click Turn on from the top menu.
| Date | Notes |
|---|---|
| 2020.05.06 | Updated News Notification Flow to use the Office 365 Groups connector (instead of the Azure AD connector) to avoid admin consent requirement for developers to instantiate the connection. |
| 2020.05.05 | Uploaded No Outlook version, which removes the dependency from the Outlook connector in all apps and flows. Special setup instructions are available in the download package. |
| 2020.03.25 | V2.20200325 News Notification flows (regular & GCC) - Updated default pagination limit of the Azure AD action to 5,000 to accomodate configurations for users with base licenses. This can be reconfigured to 100,000, see the documentation on how to update this. |
| 2020.03.23 | V2.20200323 Crisis Communication App - FAQ now sorts by Rank. - Corrected text for Links. - Fixed issue with navigating to the news screen when accessing the app by deep-linking. - Implemented first round of easier styling. Crisis Communication Admin App - Fixed issue in which the selected item would not appear in some forms. - Changed navigation behavior to occur OnSuccess of submitting a form. Crisis Communication Request flow - Fixed issue with quotation marks in adaptive cards. News Notification flow - Improved Azure AD connector to be able to page through members of a security group (up to Power Automate limit of 100,000) - Filtered out non-users in security group. DeploySPLists flow - Columns are no longer hidden when flow is run. - Fixed an issue affecting running the flow trigger. |
| 2020.03.16 | Updates: - Bugfix: fixed a bug affecting setting up auto-replies. - Implemented a way to configure more work status options more easily. - Gallery navigation for Tips, News, and RSS have been changed to scroll bars due to a bug. |
| 2020.03.12 | Updates: - Improved FAQ component: can support categories and order of items if columns are added to the list - Fixed issue with setting up auto replies - Performance improvements, removed unused controls - Included table of translations - Added support for Hebrew and Arabic |
| 2020.03.11 | Updates: - Included fix for Issue #95 in which the home menu was not responding well to wide screen resolutions - Included fix related to Issue #97 in which sending of an email to the selected people would fail if it included those selected in the contacts screen - Improved usability and accessibility |
| 2020.03.10 | Updates: - Updated experiences for galleries in Crisis Communication app. - Made preferred notification a required field in Admin app. - Included email receipts for sharing status and making requests. |
| 2020.03.09 | V2 release: Crisis Communication app - Updated design of Crisis Communication app. - Changed calendar component to allow selection of multiple non-consecutive dates. Crisis Communication Admin app - Removed unused fields in the forms |
| 2020.03.06 | Updates: - Added support for GCC (Please see separate files for importing, marked GCC) - Added usability improvements |
| 2020.03.05 | Updates: - Bugfix: Resolved issue in which conditions for updating an existing date and creating new status updates were reversed. Please update your app to the latest version to resolve this issue. - Bugfix: Corrected the conditions enabling and disabling features in the app - Revised accessible labels and tab index - Added support for Japanese - Added feature to Update Status - Removed unused controls |
| 2020.03.04 | Initial solution launch: 1. "CrisisCommunication.zip" - Canvas App for end users 2. "CrisisCommunicationAdmin.zip" - Canvas App for administrating the content 3. "DeploySPLists.zip" - Flow to initialize SharePoint Online Lists for managing content 4. "CrisisCommunicationNewsNotification.zip" - Flow to send out notifications when company news updates are published 5. "Presence status report.pbix" - Power BI Dashboard to monitor absences and other data |
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