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April 19-23, 2021, I’ll be holding my live online class! Come join me and learn advanced Power Apps and Power Automate (two deep-dive courses all in one week). SharePoint is near and dear to my heart, so this course is geared towards SharePoint people. Learn how to build forms and automate business processes in this 5 day immersive course! We
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In SharePoint back in the old days, there used to be a way to have fields/columns that were required for documents, and when a single document was uploaded, the user was prompted to fill in those required fields. As you may have noticed, in SharePoint Online, documents can be easily uploaded and bulk uploaded without anything prompting you or preventing
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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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When building flows in Power Automate, there’s a trick when it comes to updating a field where you can select multiple items. This applies to: People-pickers Lookups Choice fields Managed metadata Especially if the field is required in SharePoint, flow will insist that you populate it with a value, even if that record already has one. In this post, I’ll
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In Microsoft Power Automate, you can create a flow that can take action based on specific columns being updated in SharePoint! This can be done on a list or library. There is an action called Get changes for an item or a file, which gives you a boolean for each field, whether it was just changed or not. Here’s how
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In this post, I’ll show you a way that a flow can be set up to manually trigger the same from from multiple locations in SharePoint. Here’s the back story. I created an approval workflow for a committee’s SharePoint site, for approving meeting minutes. Then, another committee wanted the same flow, then another and another. I ended up creating and
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Previously, I wrote a post called Microsoft Flow & Quick Parts, which shows how you can insert fields from SharePoint into your document via Flow and Quick Parts. Many times in business processes, this document needs to be output as a PDF file, in order to be archived or sent out to a customer. Currently in Flow, the only free
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