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Have you ever kicked off an approval process, only to have it sit there waiting because the approver is on vacation? 😩 I have! In this blog and video, I show how to build a flow that automatically checks whether your approver has an out-of-office reply turned on. If they do, it routes the approval to someone else instead. No
In SharePoint, I love to make flows and processes as efficient as possible. One of the most powerful yet obscure and hidden, features in Power Automate is the trigger condition. In my previous post, you learned about SharePoint One Click Start Approval, where I taught how to create a button that shows next to each file in the SharePoint document library,
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Learn how to trigger an approval process, or any field change, with a single button click. The Magic Button: Kickstarting Your SharePoint Approvals with Power Automate With SharePoint, I typically use it for more than just storing files. I love building structured ways to get those files approved. That’s why I love Power Automate, for automating business processes. But how
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Microsoft’s virtual conference is tomorrow, 12/12! And it’s all about Microsoft Flow!
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Every Wednesday at 11 AM Central time, some colleagues from Rackspace and I do a live YouTube / Google Hangout broadcast called SharePoint Power Hour. Recently, I did a series of videos where I outline a single business process in detail. I decided that a New Hire Onboarding process is a very common scenario, so that’s what I decided to
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STOP USING INFOPATH You can add real digital certificates to your InfoPath forms, but there are a few problems with them: They are not compatible with browser-based forms They don’t collect any real data that you can do anything with. So, for most clients I work with, they don’t need to have “real” certificates involved, and simply need to capture
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When assigning tasks in SharePoint workflows, you may have noticed that each task that gets assigned has one field that associates it with the original list or library item where the workflow task came from. You may have noticed the “Related Content” column in a task list. It is just a hyperlink field that links you back to that original
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