Author Archives: WonderLaura

SharePoint Alerts Replacement: Digest Flow

Microsoft retired SharePoint alerts. That little Alert me option your users leaned on for years? Gone. So now everybody wants to know the same thing: how do I let people subscribe to changes in a list or library without it? There’s a brand-new SharePoint trigger in Power Automate that sends a daily digest of everything that was added or changed.

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Build a SharePoint Copilot Dashboard With a Single Prompt

SharePoint dashboards promoted in one prompt, with a training registration dashboard and smiling presenter

Have you ever been asked for a dashboard and immediately thought about how time consuming it would be to create? In this week’s Power Hour, I built an instant SharePoint Copilot dashboard HTML file straight from a regular SharePoint list. It has interactive filters, four kinds of charts, live search, and clickable rows that open a details popup. No Power

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AI Builder in Power Automate: Top 10 Tricks to Try

For this post and video, I put together ten cool things you can do with AI Builder in Power Automate. I built demos for almost all of them. 🧾 1. Extract data from invoices Microsoft already knows what an invoice looks like. Because of that, there is a whole prebuilt action called Process invoices. Your trigger can be anything. For

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Speaking at the Power Platform Community Conference #PPCC26

I’m thrilled to share that I’ll be back on stage at the Power Platform Community Conference in Las Vegas again this year! Mark your calendars, because the dates are October 27-29, 2026. I’ll be presenting two sessions, and both are geared toward business users, makers, and anyone who wants to get more out of Power Platform without writing code. Here’s

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MCP in Copilot Studio: A No-Code Guide for Power Users

MCP in Copilot studio, connect to ShareGate

You’ve probably started hearing the term “MCP” everywhere lately. So what is it, and why should a business user like you care? That’s exactly what we covered on this week’s Power Hour post and video, and I want to break it down here too, because MCP in Copilot Studio is genuinely one of the most exciting no-code capabilities I’ve seen.

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AI Web Parts in SharePoint, Explained

See AI web parts in SharePoint in action — Chart, Agent Link, and FAQ tested live, with what they do well and the licensing you need to know

When adding web parts to pages in SharePoint, you may have noticed a new category has shown up: AI. There are three AI web parts in SharePoint right now — Chart, Agent Link, and FAQ — and I spent this week’s Power Hour testing all three. In this post and video, we’ll walk through what I found. 📊 The AI

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