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Advanced Add-ons

Maptaskr Power Maps provides advanced add-on solutions to enhance security and automate key processes. These add-ons are recommended if any of your map layers require authentication, server-side processing, offline cache synchronization, or portal cleanup.

1. Flow Helpers Solution​

  • Purpose:
    • Enables secure server-side processing for Power Automate flows.
    • Does not expose the host URL or sensitive credentials to the client.
    • Provides C# code for secure processing, simplifying the implementation of flows.
  • Why use it?
    • Protects client IDs, secrets, and tokens from being exposed to users or browsers.
    • Required for advanced security and automation features.
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Maptaskr Power Maps requires a custom connector to utilize advanced add-on solutions. This may require approval from your cyber security team. For more information, see the custom connector documentation.

2. Flows Solution​

This solution contains three pre-built Power Automate flows. You can enable whichever flows suit your requirements:

Flow 1: UpdateAuthProfiles​

  • Purpose:
    • Updates authentication tokens for your map layers.
    • Prevents clients from accessing secure tokens, client IDs, and secrets.
  • When is it important?
    • Portal access to secure layers.
    • Protecting usernames or secrets.
  • What does it do?
    • Automates the process of updating and securing authentication profiles for map layers.

Flow 2: OfflineCacheRefresh​

  • Purpose:
    • Updates offline data rows, which are then synced to offline mobile profiles.
  • When is it important?
    • Keeping offline data up to date for mobile users.
    • Periodically refreshing offline data.
  • What does it do?
    • Automates the refresh and sync of offline cache data.

Flow 3: CleanupShapes​

  • Purpose:
    • Cleans up orphaned map shapes that may be created if a user starts but does not complete a form submission.
    • Assigns correct relationships to shapes missing a related ID.
  • When is it important?
    • Maintaining referential integrity for Maptaskr shapes.
    • Minimizing orphaned shapes in your system.
  • What does it do?
    • Finds and fixes shapes without relationships, ensuring data integrity.

Installation Order​

  1. Core Solution (mandatory for all Maptaskr Power Maps functionality)
  2. Flow Helpers Solution
  3. Flows Solution

All solutions use the same versioning scheme and must match. You cannot install the Flows Solution without first installing the Core Solution and Custom Connector.

If you intend to install the security or automation solutions at a later date, please ensure you have the latest version of the Core Solution installed.

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The required .zip file(s) for installation can be found at the following path: "Maptaskr Power Maps for Power Apps/Releases/Downloads"