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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

PowerApps: Azure Active Directory Groups

Why? Managing users and groups: an IT thing, an HR thing, a business ownership thing 🤔. With Azure Active Directory this is as flexible as you would like it to be, so once your organization has finally come to an agreement on who will manage which users in which groups âž¡ then how can PowerApps … Continue reading PowerApps: Azure Active Directory Groups

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

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