Why? We tend to put the full mailto-link with a subject and optional body parameter completely in the first part of the Launch function in PowerApps. However in PowerApps it will replace spaces in your email with plus signs 😫. What? This is a small post on how to make sure a mailto-link will work … Continue reading PowerApps: mailto link in Launch
Microsoft Flow: Get the SharePoint GUID
Why? In the Low-Code Power Platform default actions are covering by far the most business requirements. The SharePoint Connector gets new actions frequently but for the old-school SharePoint Designer Workflowers and for the REST Query fans the GUID of SharePoint objects is a must have. What? This post will show how to get some valuable … Continue reading Microsoft Flow: Get the SharePoint GUID
Power Automate: Handy Expressions
Why? In the Low-Code Power Platform common business logic can be "dragged & dropped" in your Microsoft Power Automate Flow. For the cases where the logic gets more complex (or if you simpy dislike drag&drop), you will have to resort to expressions. What? This post is will show some common copy-and-pasteable expressions from the Workflow … Continue reading Power Automate: Handy Expressions
Microsoft Flow: OData filter query
Why? In Microsoft Flow (Power Automate) actions like Get items or Get files, can be filtered using the URI Convention of OData. A syntax in flow using OData filter can be quite challenging for a first time 🤓 What? I'll be sharing some of my real life examples, hoping that these examples can be a … Continue reading Microsoft Flow: OData filter query
Microsoft Flow: attach multiple files from SharePoint to Email
Why? Again we should ask: "Why do you want to email something from SharePoint" multiple times, but let me show you how in case we would need to send multiple attachments. What? In the previous post (https://knowhere365.space/microsoft-flow-attach-a-file-from-sharepoint-to-email/) we already managed so send one attachment in an email and now we will step the game up … Continue reading Microsoft Flow: attach multiple files from SharePoint to Email
Microsoft Flow: attach a file from SharePoint to Email
Why? Even though we always should ask: "Why do you want to email something from SharePoint" multiple times, there may be some valid scenarios where we want to achieve an automated mail with one or more documents attached. What? In a previous post (https://knowhere365.space/microsoft-flow-create-a-file-based-on-another-file-in-sharepoint/) the basic actions about getting file data and content were explained … Continue reading Microsoft Flow: attach a file from SharePoint to Email
Microsoft Flow: create a file based on another file in SharePoint
Why? One of the very first human actions you would want to automate is the creation of files; wheither it are new documents based on a template or copying documents from location A to location B. What? This post will be a basic explanation of the very first way, it was possible to create documents … Continue reading Microsoft Flow: create a file based on another file in SharePoint
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
