I’m sharing some personal updates since my last blog post. Despite coronavirus (COVID-19), 2020 has been very good to me. The New Year started with the Ignite Tour in Toronto. I attended as many Power Platform, SharePoint and Teams sessions as I could and came away from the event excited to do more with Power … Continue reading Some personal updates
Tech Community: Lock file for approval
This post is inspired by following Microsoft Tech Community conversation: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Flow/Locking-a-file-for-approval/m-p/876434 The user wants to “create a document approval flow whereby the document is locked during the approval process so it can't be altered”. Using a custom Power Automate flow and SharePoint site columns we can lock the file and start a review and approval … Continue reading Tech Community: Lock file for approval
Tech Community: Flow to notify based on column input
This blog post is inspired by the following Microsoft Tech Community conversation: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Flow/Flow-to-notify-based-on-column-input/m-p/812666 The user wants to send an email to users “assigned” to a document after it has been uploaded. In this demo I am using a standard document library with an additional site column called “AssignedTo”. Within your Document Library, click “Flow” and … Continue reading Tech Community: Flow to notify based on column input
Tech Community: Naming attachments
This post is inspired by following Microsoft Tech Community conversation: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Flow/Naming-of-attachments-in-Flow/m-p/874218 Using Power Automate, Outlook attachments are being saved to SharePoint. Attachments need to be renamed based on extracted text from the email subject line. For example: “text1 text2 11849850 – text3” The part of the Flow that I am interested in will extract text … Continue reading Tech Community: Naming attachments
Tech Community: Document review
This blog post is inspired by the following Microsoft Tech Community (SharePoint > PowerApps & Flow) conversation: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/PowerApps-Flow/SharePoint-MS-Word-Content-Review-Flow-Reality-Check/m-p/848021 The stated requirements are: “send a link to a SharePoint document with a message for them to review, make comments, and save when done”“create a Status flag for the documents so when a link has been sent … Continue reading Tech Community: Document review
SPS Toronto – Power BI and SharePoint in Higher Education
I’m sharing my slide-deck from my session on Power BI and SharePoint in Higher Education. The slide-deck can be downloaded below. Thanks to those that attended and thanks to SPS Toronto for having me. Thanks for stopping by. Norm spstoronto-normyoung_11-23-2019Download
SharePoint default forms and PowerApps
The "out of the box" SharePoint Online List experience offers excellent form and function. However, there are times when the default new/edit form must be updated. In this post I will customize the default form using PowerApps. Specifically, I will remove the "Title" entry and show how to update the default PowerApps drop-down menu to … Continue reading SharePoint default forms and PowerApps
