Create Approvals That NEVER Expire
If you are reading this, you likely ran into an issue where you created an approval flow, but it expired before the recipient had time to approve or reject it. The timeout for an approval or any flow...
View ArticleAzure Runbook Job Name error: Token request failed..Exception
When you move from a SharePoint on-prem environment to SharePoint Online, you lose the server-side environment you’d normally use to run PowerShell scripts or tasks to interact with SharePoint. In my...
View ArticleHow Do You Get a Power Page Attachment That’s Stored in Blob Storage
My Power App Portal (Power Pages) environments are configured to use Azure blob storage for form attachments. One of the primary reasons for doing this is to avoid filling up expensive dataverse...
View ArticlePower App and SharePoint List Form Hide Field on New Item Form
How do you hide a field on a PowerApp when opening a new form? The approach below uses a single screen form instead of multiple screens for the various forms.I started by creating a new SharePoint...
View ArticleHow do you find ALL the Flows that reference a SharePoint site or list?
I asked this question when I first started down the path of learning about Flow:How do you find all the Flows running on or referencing a SharePoint list? Think about it, someone in your company...
View ArticleEffortlessly Trigger a Flow from a Power App: A Simple Step-by-Step Example
In this post, I want to show how easy it is to call a Flow from a Power App. The goal of the Power App is to pass values to the Flow, have it add them together, and return a result. Power App...
View ArticleSharePoint Audit Using Purview
Today, I had a customer ask the following question:“How can I pull a report showing all of the files in a library that have not been viewed?”Typically, users request a report showing all the items or...
View ArticleUse Python to upload a LARGE file to SharePoint
In this post, I will quickly show how to use the Office365-REST-Python-Client library to upload a large file to a SharePoint library. For this to work, you will need a certificate, Azure App...
View ArticlePower Automate: Sending Emails Using Excel Data
Recently, a user asked me how they could send emails using a flow, with Excel as the data source. I’m going to provide an in-depth guide that covers every step needed to accomplish this. What’s needed...
View ArticlePowerShell Currency Conversion Using FRED
I’m working on a project that requires currency conversions between the US dollar and the Euro. In the most basic case, the project has two requirements: backfill historical Euro amounts and get...
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