Microsoft Flow – Protect your SharePoint flows from overload better
Recently I have created some great SharePoint flows using Microsoft Flow. One problem I have been battling with however is the 429 error that occurs when your SharePoint Online environment is...
View ArticleMicrosoft Flow – Getting your flow trigger retries right
After last week’s post where I changed the number of retries in my triggers I thought that it would be a good to find the best retry settings for Microsoft Flow. How could we identify the best...
View ArticleSharePoint / Microsoft Flow – Get Site details 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 series. Getting the site details is easy using the Send an HTTP request to SharePoint...
View ArticleSharePoint / Microsoft Flow – 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 series. I will look at the following operations on a list in this post. Get list item...
View ArticleSharePoint Online – A modern library drag ‘n drop hidden gem in Edge only.
Have you tried dragging an attachment straight from your outlook email into a SharePoint library? Did it work for you? This doesn’t work in Chrome, but it does work in the Edge browser. Simply find an...
View ArticleSharePoint Online – Looking for a hubby, get it all hooked up with Microsoft...
Have you noticed that the SharePoint connector in Microsoft Flow was extended with a number of action helping you to manage hub sites? There are now the following actions available: Approve hub site...
View ArticleUploading documents to SharePoint using OneDrive/Sync and Microsoft Flow...
Today I had a chat with Paul Culmsee about Microsoft Flow missing triggers when uploading documents using OneDrive Sync. In this post I will try to describe out findings. I created a document library...
View ArticleSharePoint Online & Microsoft Flow – Attention Views, do you remember check...
Recently Microsoft introduced Attention Views in the modern SharePoint look and feel. If you don’t know what Attention views are please have a look at Tracy van der Schyff’s post on Attention views. In...
View ArticleSharePoint Online – Content types and bulk edit properties
Do you work with content types in SharePoint Online? Do you use bulk edit? If the answers to both these questions is yes then you will have noticed the content type field on the edit forms. This field...
View ArticleMicrosoft Flow – Compare dates using conditions in the SharePoint connector
Microsoft Flow is great to create your business processes. Using conditions, you can move into different parts of your process depending on data that is found by your flow. All easy, but then you start...
View ArticleMicrosoft Flow – Share photos or other files in SharePoint
Today I had a look at the button options in Microsoft Flow. I created a flow with Manually trigger a flow trigger with just one input field of the type File content. You could even add more input...
View ArticleSharePoint Online – To content type or not to content type that is the question?
Quite a while ago when the modern libraries were introduced I already started to question the use of content types. In my post Are content types dead? I first questioned the use of content types....
View ArticleMicrosoft Flow – Import list data from an Excel spreadsheet into SharePoint...
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 going to include an...
View ArticlePowerApps – Add a Google search web part to your modern SharePoint page in 5...
For most organisations google is the most used site. As many organisations set the default browser home page to a SharePoint intranet many users may find that they are redirected to the site that they...
View ArticleSharePoint 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 thrown: Failed to instantiate file “CustomStrings.js” from...
View ArticleSharePoint Online – Custom branding for modern sites
The custom branding options in SharePoint Online change quite frequently. I found a few different options of doing things but not all options work when you are using Hub Sites. Attempt 1 – Uploading...
View ArticleSharePoint 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 navigation that would match the navigation needed by my client, however only a limited...
View ArticleMicrosoft Flow – Update a multi select choice field in a SharePoint list
Some simple tasks in Microsoft Flow can look really hard. Although once you’ve found the solution you might find that it is simple to implement your solutions. Yesterday I was contacted about how to...
View ArticleMicrosoft Flow – Trigger flows on specific fields only using a shadow list in...
One of the long outstanding improvements needed in Microsoft Flow has been discussed for a long time solutions provided have always been either too complicated or just impossible to work with. Related...
View ArticleMicrosoft Flow – Deploying flows to all your project sites, or maybe not!
In the past a common challenge has been to deploy SharePoint Designer or Nintex workflows to document libraries in all of your project sites. The deployment can take a long time. When you want to make...
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