Office 365, Power Platform, SharePoint, Azure and Dynamics
Microsoft Flow is a great product that lets you trigger processes when items or files in SharePoint are changed. This works very well and better than in SharePoint Designer, however … read the microsoft-flow-sharepoint-triggers-and-their-limitations post
Today I tried to use the replace function. I had 3 variables and I tried to replace one text with another. first I had a variable longstory ( with a … read the microsoft-flow-make-a-long-story-short post
When you develop PowerApps you will quite quickly find that you can start your flow directly from your PowerApp. But is this the best way? Or is this the only … read the powerapps-start-your-microsoft-flow-from-powerapps post
Today I noticed a message in my Message Centre about joining private teams being made easier. From 23 March 2018 you can now simply search with Teams for the private … read the microsoft-teams-discover-your-private-teams post
Do you use LinkedIn? Do you use SharePoint? Do you want to give people the ability to post to your company LinkedIn account but you don’t want to give them … read the microsoft-flow-manage-your-linkedin-posts-from-sharepoint post
With all the new products and updates in Office 365 Microsoft 365, I’ve not been able to write many real SharePains articles anymore. But today I had a real pain … read the sharepoint-2016-there-was-an-exception-in-the-database post
As described in my post from last week I quite like to keep my flows in Microsoft Flow short. i’m happy with wide flows but I want to keep them short. This … read the microsoft-flow-are-you-running-out-of-runs-with-microsoft-flow post
Do you get confused when you open a Microsoft Flow? There are many actions and one of these actions is using dynamic content called Title. How do you figure out … read the microsoft-flow-are-you-confused-and-unable-to-figure-out-where-your-dynamic-content-comes-from post
Today, a very quick post about Microsoft Flow. You want to get the manager of the user that created a document to approve a document. You don’t want to specify … read the microsoft-flow-get-your-manager-to-approve-documents post
Today, I was asked about triggering a flow only when a document set is created. I started by enabling Document sets on my site. (note that this is a site … read the microsoft-flow-get-your-flow-to-trigger-on-the-creation-of-a-document-set post
Recently Microsoft has added a lot of new modern web parts to SharePoint Online. So if your approach is to keep customisation to the minimum then you might now find … read the office-365-sharepoint-online-out-of-the-box-web-parts-on-team-and-communication-sites post
Today I noticed in the Admin Center’s Message Center in Office 365 that Microsoft announced that they will ask page authors to submit a survey. A new feature on its … read the sharepoint-online-page-author-surveys-on-the-way post
I’ve seen many people creating flows in Microsoft Flow where there was a need for reminders to be sent. All sorts of complicated loops are developed and it doesn’t really … read the microsoft-flow-send-out-reminders post
Within Microsoft Flow it is possible to create approval processes. Nothing special! Simply create an approval action You will now receive an email that looks as shown below: Or within … read the microsoft-flow-do-you-have-an-approval-process-ive-got-2 post
Today I tried to update a field that contains a URL field (AKA Hyperlink or Picture). To update these kind of field you would normally have to set the field … read the microsoft-flow-updating-hyperlink-or-picture-fields-using-microsoft-flow post