Tag Archives: Documents

Flow Matching File Name in Library

This is a quick post about using Power Automate to copy specific files from library to library.  In my use case, I’ve got a bunch of training files that I work on, and then share with my students.  I have a library where I work on the files, and then a different library (in a different SharePoint site) where the

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Power Apps PDF Viewer

There is a control in PowerApps called the PDF Viewer.  This lets you preview PDF files.  In my last blog post, PowerApps Gallery of Attachments I showed how to preview image attachments in a gallery.  Today in SharePoint Power Hour, I did a demo of that solution, and also figured out a way to do previews of PDF files as well. 

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Office 365: Information Rights Management

Information Rights Management is being rolled out to Office 365 right now.  I read about it here, and decided to go into my tenant and try it out.  This is very exciting!  What is Information Rights Management?  The quick explanation is that it lets you have tighter control over what happens to your files (mostly just MS Office files) once

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SharePoint and Office 365: Cross-site Content Concepts

I recently had a call with a customer who had a pretty common requirement. Their content editors work on files on a team site, and they want to have a way to have that content exist on the team site and on their main intranet site as well. Currently the content editors are making the changes in two different places,

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“I Need To…” Display a List of Documents

In this article, I’ll describe how to use the out-of-box “I Need To…” web part to display a dynamic list of documents in a document library. About the “I Need To…” web part This web part displays items in a list on the SharePoint site.  The Title field is the field that will be displayed.  The list also must have

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