Category Archives: Views

Modern SharePoint Color-Coded Calendar

Microsoft Lists are SharePoint Lists, and these lists can be displayed as calendars. Conditional formatting can now be done on calendar views! This means that you can color code your calendars, based on values in the columns, such as an event category. Old Way: Overlays This concept of color coding has existed in the past, for classic calendars in SharePoint,

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Action Button in Lists: Set Column Value

SharePoint Lists / Microsoft Lists have a capability that allows you to add a button to a row, which when clicked will set the value of one or more columns in that row.  For example, a “Complete Task” button, when clicked, could set the a status column in a row to “Completed” and set a person field called “Completed by” to the current user’s name.  All of this can be done without the need for any kind of workflow or flow.  You’ll also learn the logic of how to create a button that only shows for a certain person.

I’ll also show you a way to kick off a flow, without the flow panel popping out and without the user having to click to run the flow in multiple dialog boxes.

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SharePoint Modern Calendar

Learn how to create a modern SharePoint calendar.

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Power Apps as a Front End

There are two different ways that you can create PowerApps canvas apps.  There are customized SharePoint list forms, and there are standalone PowerApps.  I always prefer standalone, and I wrote a post that is a full comparison between the two types, PowerApps Standalone App Versus Customized List Form.  Whenever I’m talking about the fact that I prefer standalone over customized

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No Code Column Formatting in SharePoint – NEW

There’s a new wizard based, easy user interface for column conditional formatting in SharePoint Online!!  That means you don’t have to know JSON code in order to do some conditional formatting on your columns!!!!!! This doesn’t work on every column type, there are still limitations, but it does give some basic options. Right now this only works on these types

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Button in SharePoint List to Trigger Power Automate

In SharePoint modern lists, conditional formatting can be done, and there is a great detailed reference by Microsoft.  I was trying to find a way to create a nice pretty button right there on a SharePoint list, to quickly click to run a workflow. 6/23/2022 Update:  I’ve written a newer, better way to accomplish this (Action Button in a List

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Document Library Descriptions

Remember back in SharePoint 2003 and 2007? Probably not.  I barely remember it, and had to search the internet just to find an old screenshot because I didn’t even start blogging until SharePoint 2007.  There was something, at least one thing nice about those old versions.  The document library and list descriptions actually showed right there at the top of

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