Is your SharePoint list full of dates and hard to understand at a glance? When everything appears as rows of data, it becomes difficult to track deadlines, project timelines, events, or schedules. Quick answer: Open the list, select + Add view, choose Calendar under Show as, pick the Start date and End date columns and … Read more >>>
A client of mine had a simple problem: new employees kept asking who they should go to for approvals, and HR spent a surprising amount of time emailing out the same org chart diagram, which was always slightly out of date. We fixed it by adding SharePoint’s Organization chart web part to the intranet home … Read more >>>
Most desktop flows I build end up working with a data table at some point. It might hold rows read from an Excel file, a table scraped from a web page, or the results of a SQL query. And sooner or later, the flow needs to add a row to that table: a new record, … Read more >>>
Last year we built a travel request app for a client in Power Apps, with every request stored in a SharePoint list. Employees and a handful of external partners needed to submit requests, but the client didn’t want to give all of them Edit permission on the list. With Edit access, anyone could change or … Read more >>>
Approvals often stall because the approver misses the first email. In this tutorial, I’ll show you three ways to handle that in Power Automate: remind the approver when an approval isn’t answered in time, send daily reminders for requests that are still pending, and notify the requester when a decision is made. Quick answer: Set … Read more >>>
Recently, while discussing a Power Platform project with a client, the client wanted to know the difference between Power Apps and Power Automate. So, I thought I would write a complete tutorial on “Power Apps vs. Power Automate.” Quick answer: Power Apps is for building apps that people open and use, such as forms, galleries … Read more >>>
The Events web part is a built-in SharePoint Online web part that lets you display upcoming events, meetings, webinars, workshops, or other scheduled activities directly on a modern SharePoint page. Quick answer: Edit the page, select +, search for Events and add the web part, then republish. The web part keeps its events in an … Read more >>>
If you work with SharePoint lists, sooner or later you’ll need to let users upload supporting files – invoices, screenshots, approvals, or any other documents – directly against list items. In this tutorial, we’ll walk through everything about the Attachments column in a SharePoint Online list: how to add it to a view, show or hide it … Read more >>>
In this Power Automate tutorial, I will show you how to use the wait timer in Power Automate. Quick answer: In a Power Automate cloud flow, use the Delay action from the Schedule connector and set a count and unit, for example 10 seconds or 1 minute. To wait until a date and time, use … Read more >>>
Creating an engaging intranet or team collaboration space requires visually appealing content. Recently, I was working with a client to design an attractive home page for their intranet portal. In one section, they wanted to display the team’s event photos on the home page in a visually organized manner. Quick answer: Edit the SharePoint page, … Read more >>>
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