Why? Column Formatting is one of those features that have made SharePoint even easier to improve the user experience. The default Content Approval of SharePoint has been a strong document collaboration functionality for many years now. With the recent release of hover cards in the formatting options, I wanted to combine all these features in … Continue reading SharePoint: Column Formatting on the Approval Status column
Power Automate: results of an HTTP request
Why? The results of an HTTP request in Power Automate Flows are returned in JSON format so how to read the results and use it in the different possible ways? What? This post will provide some useful examples on how to handle the results of an HTTP request. How? The starting point is an HTTP … Continue reading Power Automate: results of an HTTP request
PowerApps: rendering images from SharePoint Online in Rich Text Column
Why? By default a PowerApp will not render images for a Multiple lines of text column if the image is stored in SharePoint Online 🤔 What? This post will give you a pretty straight forward option on how you can get this to work. How? So there is a SharePoint list (ListHTML) where we will … Continue reading PowerApps: rendering images from SharePoint Online in Rich Text Column
PowerApps: Multi value lookups SharePoint in Datacards
Why? The SharePoint lookup column that allows multiple values to be selected. Nice idea from a SharePoint point of view, but when used in a PowerApps datacard that you want to have default values from a combobox control this may be tricky What? An explanation of how you can get multi value lookups from SharePoint … Continue reading PowerApps: Multi value lookups SharePoint in Datacards
PowerApps: Single value lookups SharePoint in Datacards
Why? Sometimes you just want to use the lookup columns that SharePoint can provide in a PowerApp that has multiple screens. I would not recommend it, in by far the most cases it is not even necessary but...... for those few times you need to make it happen, let me show you 💡 What? An … Continue reading PowerApps: Single value lookups SharePoint in Datacards
Microsoft Flow: update Multi value Managed Metadata Column of a Document Set
Why? Managed Metadata columns are special and those that allow multiple values are even more special. Since there are no out-of-the-box Microsoft Flow actions (yet) to update Document Sets, we will use the Old school Send an HTTP request to SharePoint. What? This post will be a deep dive for updating Managed Metadata with a … Continue reading Microsoft Flow: update Multi value Managed Metadata Column of a Document Set
Microsoft Flow: update Managed Metadata Column of a Document Set
Why? The Managed Metadata columns are now supported in Microsoft Flow so in general you would not have to resort to his "old school" method. But unfortunately there are no out-of-the-box Microsoft Flow actions (yet) to do this through the ease-to-use steps and dynamic content. What? This post will be a deep dive for updating … Continue reading Microsoft Flow: update Managed Metadata Column of a Document Set
Microsoft Flow: update SharePoint Document Set
Why? After a Document Set has been created (see my previous post: https://knowhere365.space/sharepoint-document-set-creation-through-microsoft-flow/) you may want to update some (custom) properties of the new created document set. Unfortunately there are no out-of-the-box Microsoft Flow actions (yet) to do this. What? This post will explain step-by-step how you can update an already existing Document set in … Continue reading Microsoft Flow: update SharePoint Document Set
SharePoint: get the Column Internal Name
Why? Sometimes you just want to know what the internal name / database name of a column or field is when this may be different from the display name. You may need it for Column formatting, HTTP calls or just for good documentation 😉. What? This post will be a short reference on the ways … Continue reading SharePoint: get the Column Internal Name
