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Microsoft Flow: Change a SharePoint Group owner

Why? Setting (or changing) the owner of an existing SharePoint Group could be something you want to do in bulk or to automate immediately after an automated creation. What? This post will show how a Microsoft Flow can update the SharePoint Group owner to another SharePoint Group using the Send an HTTP request to SharePoint … Continue reading Microsoft Flow: Change a SharePoint Group owner

Microsoft Flow: Create a new SharePoint Group

Why? Sometimes you just need other SharePoint Groups next to the default Owner, Visitor and Member Groups provided. So let's use Microsoft Flow to automate the creation of new groups! What? This post will show how a Microsoft Flow can easily create a new SharePoint Group using the Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action. In the … Continue reading Microsoft Flow: Create a new SharePoint Group

Microsoft Flow: Copy OneNote Notebook

Why? Let's say we have a template library and we have a OneNote Template Notebook in there that we want to use as a template for other libraries or sub folders. It should be very simple like my previous post (view it for related info like used variables below) : https://knowhere365.space/microsoft-flow-create-a-file-based-on-another-file-in-sharepoint/... when you realize that … Continue reading Microsoft Flow: Copy OneNote Notebook

PowerApps: mailto link in Launch

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