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All Microsoft MVP, Pieter Veenstra’s posts about SharePoint. If you want to learn more about SharePoint then this is the site to visit
How do you select all items in a multi-select choice column in a SharePoint form? For small choice fields with only two or three options this doesn’t matter too much, … read the select-all-in-power-apps post
So often I hear complaints about SharePoint actions in flow not working. in this post I will look at the complication when you try to get all files in a … read the get-all-files-in-a-sharepoint-folder post
In this post I will give a pattern for reading a csv file form SharePoint. An example csv file For this post I created a csv file with 3 columns … read the read-csv-files-from-sharepoint post
SharePoint Backups Do you create any backups of your SharePoint libraries? When you use SharePoint Online you can take backups of your documents using 3rd party backup solutions. Is there … read the sharepoint-backups-recycle-bins-and-version-history post
Have you ever struggled to handle files in SharePoint when you are running your flows? Microsoft Flow’s actions that deal with documents in SharePoint, will have to deal with the … read the microsoft-flow-handling-file-locks-in-sharepoint post
In this post I’m looking at 3 major issues with document properties in MS Word. When you use SharePoint Online and rely on document properties used in document content to … read the document-properties-in-ms-word-3-major-issues post
In my post about the When a file is deleted trigger in Microsoft Flow I described the trigger that will fire when a document is deleted. The trigger however will … read the inform-authors-when-a-document-is-deleted-from-sharepoint-with-microsoft-flow post
Global navigation Recently I created a hub site for a new intranet. Initially the idea was to create a global navigation that would match the navigation needed by my client, … read the sharepoint-online-hub-sites-and-global-navigation-placeholders post
Yesterday,one of my colleagues mentioned that they received the following error when provisioning sites collections Now the following error is thrown: Failed to instantiate file “CustomStrings.js” from module “_catalogsmasterpageDisplay TemplatesLanguage … read the sharepoint-online-failed-to-instantiate-file-customstrings-js-from-module post
When you’ve used Microsoft Flow for a while you will most likely have discovered the Team Flows. A My Flow turns into Team Flow when additional owners have been added to … read the microsoft-flow-manage-your-flow-owners-from-sharepoint-list-permissions post
Over the last few weeks I have seen quite a few people asking questions about comparing two lists, synchronising lists and importing data into SharePoint lists. Within this post I’m … read the microsoft-flow-import-list-data-from-an-excel-spreadsheet-into-sharepoint-lists post
Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate stuck Today I used PnP PowerShell to provision one of my sites. For some reason my Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate CmdLet just didn’t want to run properly. Every time I ran Apply-PnPProvisioningTemplate … read the pnp-powershell-apply-pnpprovisioningtemplate-stuck-on-initiliazing-engine post
Sometimes you run into an issue that is difficult to resolve. Recently I’ve been running a PowerShell script that needs to create 6000 site collections and even more sub sites … read the sharepoint-long-running-powershell-migration-scripts-fail-on-install-spusersolution post
This post is part of my User guide to using the SharePoint REST API in Microsoft Flow for no-code developers series. In this post I will look at maintaining list … read the sharepoint-microsoft-flow-maintain-list-items-for-no-code-developers post
This post is part of my User guide to using the SharePoint REST API in Power Automate for no-code developers series. Getting the site details is easy using the Send an HTTP … read the sharepoint-microsoft-flow-get-site-details-for-no-code-developers post
