Thursday, 2 February 2023

Where did that Contoso dummy content come from?

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HERE'S A THING ... an internal client of mine was working on a modern Experience site, and some of her navigation links were taking her...
Thursday, 22 December 2022

Power Apps: Add person to SharePoint Name field via dropdown in Canvas App form

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POWER APPS AND SHAREPOINT IS AN IMMENSELY POWERFUL COMBINATION that allows you to construct time-saving automated applications that will sa...
Saturday, 4 June 2022

Simple approval form with PowerApps, Deep Links and Flow

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I STRUGGLED WITH THIS FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS BEFORE REALISING that Microsoft had recently moved the goalposts on how Deep Linking works in Po...
Tuesday, 12 April 2022

Why doesn't SharePoint understand British Summer Time?

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I'VE HAD THIS PROBLEM A COUPLE OF TIMES ... you add some fiddly code to your Flow (or Workflow) to generate a handy Calendar Invite (.ic...
Monday, 14 March 2022

PowerApps - linking the Gallery Arrow to a DispForm / Editform

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I WAS BUILDING a gallery linked to SharePoint in a Canvas App, and ran into a spot of bother. It's that arrow on the right that was giv...
Saturday, 17 April 2021

Flow: Send an email to multiple addresses stored in a list or library

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SO HERE'S A STRANGE THING. I was working on a scheduled Flow that would loop through the items in a list and send out alerts to groups o...
Sunday, 11 October 2020

Create a Word brochure generator with Power Apps and Power Automate: Part Two

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YOU'LL RECALL THAT LAST TIME   we covered adding metadata columns to the Document Library and the building of cascading menus in Power A...