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
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 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
