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
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
Microsoft Flow: SharePoint Document Set creation
Why? At the moment there are no out-of-the-box Microsoft Flow actions regarding the Document Set. Now the Document Set is going Modern: let us go Old School! 🧓 What? This post will explain step-by-step how you can create a Document set in a SharePoint Online library by using the Send an HTTP request to SharePoint … Continue reading Microsoft Flow: SharePoint Document Set creation
SharePoint: Add the Document Set to a Site
Why? Because the Document Set is a special type of content type, it obviously gets a special type of treatment: even in making at available 😉. What? This post will explain how you can make the Document Set available in your SharePoint Site. How? The first way is to enable it by going to the … Continue reading SharePoint: Add the Document Set to a Site
