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SharePoint Designer has been the go-to tool for creating workflows in SharePoint for many years. However, Microsoft has been phasing out support for SharePoint Designer. This means that it’s time to move your old SharePoint Designer workflows to Microsoft Power Automate.
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This article is about SharePoint Designer 2013 workflows, and SharePoint Online (Office 365) external users. In building a solution for a customer, where there’s a SharePoint site / O365 Group with external users, and tasks needing to be assigned to them, this is the problem I noticed. When you invite an external user to SharePoint, they receive an invitation email.
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This week, I’m doing a new presentation that teaches a new way to implement a standard approval workflow in your organization, with the ability to use it for many different approval processes very easily, with little re-work each time there is a new type of request form to create. Here’s the abstract: Creating an Approval Workflow & Interface Approvals are
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In the past couple of weeks, I’ve gotten various workflow questions in email and in comments on my blog. In this week’s episode, I will go over the following questions, which apply to SharePoint on-premises AND Office 365. Question 1: Is it possible to create a workflow (either out of the box or with SPDesigner) that runs monthly on the
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What is lazy approval? It is the ability to reply to an approval email with the word “Approved” or “Rejected”, without need for the approver to go to a site in SharePoint. With the mobile workforce, this is a feature that is in high demand, for people to quickly be able to read an email and approve or reject instantaneously.
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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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Back in 2011, I wrote a post Click to Copy List Item to New. I’ve had several requests for a re-write of this for 2013. Actually, this method I’m going to show you can be done in 2010, 2013 and Office 365. In this concept, I’ll show you how to create a workflow that simply creates a new item and
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