System Updates in SharePoint from Power Automate using the ValidateUpdateListItem endpoint
Today I wanted to update Documents/Items without triggering other flows. The ValidateUpdateListItem endpoint in the REST API made this System…
Activate and Deactivate Features in SharePoint from Power Automate Flows
Enabling a SharePoint feature from a flow in Power Automate is easy, but how do you deactivate features? Activate a…
Implement Power Apps calendar booking in less than 5 minutes
Today I was asked how to implement in Power Apps calendar booking. The booking availability app So I’m looking to…
Size your Power Apps with Height and Width in SharePoint webparts
Sizing you apps in Power Apps isn’t any more complicated than setting the height and the width of the app.…
Site designs failing to apply to SharePoint site
Today I tried to apply a site design to a SharePoint site using Power Automate, however this would just not…
Using the new SharePoint Content Type Gallery in with existing sites
Recently the Content Type Hub in SharePoint Online turned into the SharePoint Content Type Gallery and this is more that…
Copy large files from SharePoint to Azure Blob Storage using Power Automate
When you try to copy large files from SharePoint to Azure Bob Storage with Power Automate, you will find that…
Secure your SharePoint data in Power Apps using Power Automate
Although Dataverse is available many of us still use SharePoint to store their data. But how do you secure your…
Create Views in Microsoft Teams
Have you ever wondered how to organize your documents in a Microsoft Teams Channel just like views in SharePoint? Views…
Calculate the Sum for a SharePoint column in Power Automate
Last week Shane Young asked me about calculating the Sum for a SharePoint column in Power Automate. In this post…
Get the changes made to SharePoint Items with Power Automate
Recently the Get changes for an item or file action was added to SharePoint. Here a full overview Get changes…
Avoid unwanted apply to each steps in Power Automate
When you add dynamic content to actions you will get those unwanted apply to each actions added by Power Automate.…
Compare 2 SharePoint libraries at lightning speed with Power Automate
Yesterday Jon Levesque asked me if I had any posts helping to compare two SharePoint document libraries with Power Automate.…
Create a SharePoint list using Power Automate
So your flow is creating a new SharePoint site and now you want to create a SharePoint list in the…
SharePoint Migration Tool, Wow!
Have you used the SharePoint migration tool yet? Migration tool for SharePoint 2013 to SharePoint Online I hadn’t done a…
Select All for a Multi-select choice field in Power Apps
How do you select all items in a multi-select choice column in a SharePoint form? For small choice fields with…
Get all files in a SharePoint folder using Power Automate
So often I hear complaints about SharePoint actions in flow not working. In this post I will look at the…
3 steps to read csv files from SharePoint
In this post I will give a pattern for reading a csv file form SharePoint. An example csv file For…
SharePoint Backups, Recycle bin and Version history
SharePoint Backups Do you create any backups of your SharePoint libraries? When you use SharePoint Online you can take backups…
Power Automate – Handling file locks in SharePoint
Have you ever struggled to handle file locks in SharePoint when you are running your flows? File locks and actions…
Document Properties in MS Word, 3 major issues?
In this post I’m looking at 3 major issues with document properties in MS Word. When you use SharePoint Online…
Inform authors when a document is deleted from SharePoint with Microsoft Flow
In my post about the When a file is deleted trigger in Microsoft Flow I described the trigger that will…
SharePoint Online – Hub sites and global navigation placeholders
Global navigation Recently I created a hub site for a new intranet. Initially the idea was to create a global…
SharePoint Online – Failed to instantiate file “CustomStrings.js” from module
Yesterday,one of my colleagues mentioned that they received the following error when provisioning sites collections Now the following error is…
Manage your flow owners from SharePoint list permissions in Power Automate
Wouldn’t it be easy if you could just reuse permissions and set your flow owners on SharePoint lists on your…
Import an Excel spreadsheet into SharePoint lists with Power Automate
Over the last few weeks I have seen quite a few people asking questions about comparing two lists, synchronize lists…
PnP PowerShell – Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate stuck on initializing engine
Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate stuck Today I used PnP PowerShell to provision one of my sites. For some reason my Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate CmdLet just…
SharePoint – Install-SPUserSolution fails on slow or busy systems
Sometimes you run into an issue that is difficult to resolve. Recently I’ve been running a PowerShell script that needs…
Maintain list items for no-code developers
This post is part of my User guide to using the SharePoint REST API in Microsoft Flow for no-code developers…
Get Site details for no-code developers
This post is part of my User guide to using the SharePoint REST API in Power Automate for no-code developers…