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Office 365 – Site Collection App Catalogs are arriving soon
Every now and then I find new updates arriving in Office 365 by looking at the Office 365 Message Center. Today I found the following update: New Feature: Site Collection App Catalog MC123934 Stay...
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Office 365 – Are content types dead?
I noticed a while back that you can’t select content types in the views in modern lists. It seems to be that users need to be able to create new list columns. At my first moment of thought, I find this...
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Office 365 – SharePoint Online – Performance, what to expect?
Recently I had a few customers with performance issues and it helps to know what to expect with performance in Office 365. So first of all I started with creating an empty page in SharePoint. I used...
View ArticleOffice 365 – Updates to team sites, Is Microsoft trying to deliver end...
Today, Microsoft announced some changes to the modern team sites. Over the last few months we all got used to the modern team sites: According to the announcement today Newly created group-connected,...
View ArticleOffice 365 – Create a user feedback form within minutes with SharePoint...
After my last week’s post Feedback is important, but please don’t bother my users, I thought about creating a feedback form within the modern experience of Office 365. I’m going to restrict myself to...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint Online – Compare different versions of a document.
Most likely you are aware that it is possible to have version control on SharePoint libraries. Most likely you will also know how to get to the Version History option in the document libraries once it...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint online – Content approval gives too many warnings
For one of my customers I enabled content approval on a list. This should all be quite easy. I simply went to the Versioning settings of the list and I found the right options. In this case my customer...
View ArticleOffice 365 – SharePoint Online – How to waste some space on your pages.
The modern pages in SharePoint online look absolutely great! With the additional web part that are added to the available web parts improvements are made. Today I noticed a few new web parts. The...
View ArticleSharePoint Online – Page Author surveys on the way.
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. I can really understand that Microsoft wants feedback,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Flow – SharePoint triggers and their limitations
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 there are a few...
View ArticlePowerApps – Where should you stick your PowerApps?
Within recent years there have been many shifts within the Office 365 world. For a long time SharePoint development could only be done by the hard core SharePoint developers. Where initiatives like...
View ArticleMicrosoft Flow – Create SharePoint list items using Xml
You have data stored in XML and you want to use this to create list items in SharePoint and you thing that Microsoft Flow might be able to help you. You couldn’t be more right. Flow can help you, but...
View ArticleMicrosoft Flow is not just a SharePoint workflow engine
Over the past years many SharePointers got used to SharePoint Designer workflows. The SharePoint Designer workflows were connected to SharePoint lists or content types and some event in SharePoint...
View ArticleSharePoint Online – Are your lists/Libraries failing with more than 5000...
Recently I’ve had a library with roughly 8000 documents and my REST API was failing to find documents that weren’t in the set of first 5000 documents in the library. SharePoint Online will create...
View ArticleSharePoint Online – Are you still using classic lists, try dragging documents...
Every now and then I discover one of those features in SharePoint Online that is just awesome! Today I dragged a document into a library with a view that had grouping configured I wasn’t really sure...
View ArticleSharePoint Online/2016 – Document Properties vs DocProperty
It is Friday and it is very sunny and rather than enjoying the sun I’m struggling behind my laptop with document properties. As some of you may know there are 2 different places where Word will store...
View ArticleMicrosoft Flow – Update a List item with a people field using REST API in the...
This post includes quite a few common requirements. So before I get started I’ll list some of the subjects that you might be interested in: Update a list item with the REST API Update a people field...
View ArticleMicrosoft Flow – Creating generic flows in Microsoft Flow using the...
One of the differences between SharePoint Designer workflows and Microsoft Flow is the way you can have multiple copies of the same flow for multiple lists and or libraries. Where in SharePoint...
View ArticleMicrosoft Flow – Error 429 – Rate limit is exceeded. Try again in X seconds.
Recently I wrote about common issues with the SharePoint connector in Flow. One of the common issues I found is the error 429. No I am not talking about the Ford Mustang 429. The general description of...
View ArticleSharePoint Online / Microsoft Flow – CSOM Throttling in the SharePoint connector
I’ve been back from a week holiday and I’ve only been back for a couple of hours and I’m hitting some real pains straightaway. I will start by explaining the setup a bit. I’ve got 30 documents. On...
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