In this blog I will show you how to leverage power automate to streamline document approval and more specifically if you had out of the box document approval in 2010 and planning to convert that. Out of the box, Request sign-off and Content Approval are available and work flawlessly for Continue Reading
Eyoael Yemer
PowerApps: SharePoint Form Customization-Part 1
If you have used InfoPath designer before to create SharePoint list forms and want to “convert” them to the new PowerApps forms, there are good news and bad news. The good news is creating forms in PowerApps is relatively easy than InfoPath and the functionality and what you can do Continue Reading
Power Automate: Send an email using Send an HTTP request to SharePoint action
In this blog post, I will show you how to use ‘Send an HTTP request to SharePoint’ action to send an email using the built-in mailbox address. When authoring a power automate/flow, it uses the creator’s credential to establish the connection and if you use ‘Send an email(V2)’ action, it Continue Reading
Power Automate: Get SharePoint group members’ email addresses
In this post, I will walk you through the process of getting a SharePoint group member’s email. This is handy if you are sending an email to all SharePoint group members or an approval email to a specific SharePoint group. At the time of this post, there is no way Continue Reading
Clickable Title in a document library using SharePoint Designer Workflow
When uploading or creating a document in a SharePoint document library, the Name field is always populated. Title column isn’t mandatory and usually stays blank. If you click on the ‘Name’ of the document, it will either open it in the browser or the client application depending on how you Continue Reading
PowerApps: SharePoint Modal dialog box
When deleting a SharePoint list item, by default, it will display a deletion confirmation modal box. If ‘Delete’ is clicked, it will delete the record and obviously cancel it if ‘Cancel’ is clicked. This is the default behavior and serves as an extra layer of accidental item deletion. In this Continue Reading
Power Automate: send a reminder email for due list items
There may be a time when you want to send a reminder email for due items to the assignees. The idea here is the flow will run across all the list items and check for the due items that are in progress and sends out a reminder email. I have Continue Reading
Power Automate: Get user manager Value in SharePoint list
If you have worked in both 2010 and 2013 SharePoint designer workflows, getting users manager is no easy task. Especially, in SharePoint Designer 2013 with the absence of accessing user profile to get the manager value, the only option is via a web service call . It requires some solid Continue Reading
PnP- PowerShell: Start SharePoint Designer 2013 workflows
What if we want to initiate/trigger a SharePoint 2013 mode workflow in a SharePoint online list for all items? We have two options (or maybe more). First is to trigger the workflow on each individual item which is time consuming and a formidable task if you have thousands of items Continue Reading
SharePoint Calculated Column – Part II ( Find function )
Recently, I came across a request where I need to display a specific value from a lookup column. Since lookup columns display all values, one possible solution is to use a script that finds the select tag on the lookup and set the display mode to none if it starts Continue Reading