My blog on SharePoint, Power Platform and related stuff.
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Custom List Templates are starting to roll out to Microsoft Lists. Templates allow organizations to extend their current List based solutions to a broader audience in an approved manner. Complete instructions can be found on the Creating custom list templates page. In this blog post I am going to walk through the experience of adding … Continue reading A first look at Templates in Microsoft Lists
Rules for Microsoft Lists are starting to roll out. Rules offer new opportunities for users to extend the functionality of their Lists without the relying on IT and without the steep learning curve that is sometimes associated with new technology. In this blog post I am going to walk through the experience of creating Rules … Continue reading A first look at Rules in Microsoft Lists
This article originally appears on the AvePoint blog as An Introduction to the SharePoint Admin Center. Welcome to the SharePoint admin center, your one-stop-shop for all things SharePoint management! The admin center is intended to inform, configure, and govern the management of all the sites in your tenant. Inform The Admin home page includes Activity and … Continue reading An Introduction to the SharePoint Admin Center
Note: The steps in the Create HTML table action have been updated from my original post, on Dec 21, 2020, to address an issue where the Filter array columns were no longer available in Power Automate. This post is inspired by a question I received from a previous blog post where the user wants to … Continue reading Send a single reminder for multiple items using Lists and Power Automate (UPDATED)
This post is inspired by a question I received on LinkedIn on how to copy files to a project based Teams team using Power Automate at the time of provisioning. This Flow can provide one of the building blocks for that larger solution. This Flow requires a Graph API connection. I outline how to do … Continue reading Use Power Automate to get a MS Teams SharePoint URL
In this blog post I will show how to copy multiple selected Choice column values to another list. 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 choice column called "Choice" that allows multiple selections. … Continue reading Use Power Automate to copy multiple selections from Choice columns between Microsoft Lists
In this blog post I am going to show how it is possible to add and remove users to a SharePoint site using Microsoft Lists and Power Automate. I'll be using the Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action throughout the Flow. "Send an HTTP request to SharePoint" constructs and executes SharePoint REST API calls. … Continue reading Add and remove users to a SharePoint site using Microsoft Lists and Power Automate
In this blog post I will show how to dynamically switch SharePoint Document Libraries based on a string to perform further actions like creating a folder. I've used this pattern for dynamic folder creation where the sheer scale of folders required dedicated Document Libraries based on alphabetic ranges (A-F, G-M, N-T, U-Z). My demo SharePoint … Continue reading Use Power Automate to dynamically switch Document Libraries based on a string
Check out this related flow pattern on the Power Platform Samples repository: https://github.com/pnp/powerautomate-samples/tree/main/samples/create-folder-with-link-back-to-list In this blog post I will out line how Power Automate can be used to create a folder in a SharePoint document library and then store the link to the newly created folder inside of Microsoft Lists. I have used this pattern … Continue reading Use Power Automate to create a folder in SharePoint with link back to Microsoft Lists (UPDATED)
I’m sharing my “A 50 minute digital transformation” slide deck from the M365 Saturday Saskatchewan 2020 - Virtual. Thanks to those that attended, I really appreciate it! NY a-50-minute-digital-transformation-m365saskDownload
Norm Young 