My blog on SharePoint, Power Platform and related stuff.
This article originally appears on the AvePoint blog as How to Get Started With Dataverse Solutions. Dataverse is sometimes viewed as a database service, but it’s much more than just tables and views. Also included are apps, forms, processes, workflows, and other built-in and reusable objects that can be used to create and distribute applications. One … Continue reading How to Get Started With Dataverse Solutions
If you want to get started with Dataverse but do not have a license available get a Power Apps Developer Plan. The Developer Plan gives you Power Apps, Power Automate and Dataverse for non-production use. Learn more at: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/developerplan/ You have two options for signing up: Get started free, use this choice if are you not using … Continue reading How to get a Power Apps Developer Plan
Despite this blog post’s catchy title there is no magic upgrade button to move Microsoft Lists to Dataverse for Teams. There may be in the future but until then migration translates to rebuild. A list rebuild to Dataverse will most likely be caused by a design requirement that Lists is not suited to, like setting … Continue reading Migrate Microsoft Lists to Dataverse for Teams
I've previously written about how to import data from Excel into Microsoft Lists. In this post, we will switch things up and export list data into Excel using Power Automate. In our scenario, we will export a subset of the list data into a date-named spreadsheet that is stored in Microsoft Teams daily. Excel Preparation … Continue reading Export Microsoft List data to Excel
This article originally appears on the AvePoint blog as When a List Isn’t Enough: A Case for Dataverse and Model-Driven Apps. I like working with Microsoft Lists. They’re easy to create and easy to populate and have many options to improve the user experience with features like column formatting and extending functionality using services like the … Continue reading When a List Isn’t Enough: A Case for Dataverse and Model-Driven Apps
In this blog post I will show how to copy multi-select Person values from one list to another. This post is a supplement to: Use Power Automate to move Microsoft Lists items to another list. I am using two lists called Source and Destination. Both lists have a Person column called "Person" that allows multiple selections. Create a new Flow … Continue reading Use Power Automate to copy multi-select Person values between Microsoft Lists
This blog post is in response to a question posed in the comments section of Microsoft Lists: Updated Issue Tracker. The question is: "Wondering if there is a way of integrating the Teams chat function into the Issue Tracker – so that when someone opens an “issue”; I can chat with them within the context … Continue reading How to create a Teams chat from Microsoft Lists
This article originally appears on the AvePoint blog as Power Automate Training Guide: How to Get Your Team Started. Power Automate is one of the four hero apps included in the Power Platform (PowerApps, Power Automate, Power BI and Power Virtual Agents) that performs task automation and workflow execution for a variety of user build … Continue reading Power Automate Training Guide: How to Get Your Team Started
This article originally appears on the AvePoint blog as 5 Little-Known Microsoft Lists Features to Boost Efficiency. The Microsoft Lists platform supplies a fantastic way for users to collaborate on data using a single, low-barrier platform where solutions can start modestly and grow as requirements, experience, and features increase. The Microsoft investment in List modernization continues with … Continue reading 5 Little-Known Microsoft Lists Features to Boost Efficiency
Microsoft is rolling out a new Power Platform integration for Microsoft Lists called Visualize the list. This latest addition creates an auto-generated Power BI report based on the underlying list schema. The auto-generated report provides an excellent starting point for users not proficient with Power BI. In this blog post I will show how to … Continue reading A first look at “Visualize the list” in Microsoft Lists
Norm Young 