In SharePoint – because it’s primarily a collaboration platform – we often struggle with the difference between security and obscurity. Some content absolutely must be secured, meaning only certain people can see or edit it. In these cases, we set the permissions such that people simply can’t see or even be aware of the content….
The recently added capability to perform simple layout changes on a SharePoint list form using JSON is the bee’s knees. As is the case with many insect joints, the examples out there mostly are the same and the documentation isn’t full featured enough for most people’s taste. Sue Hanley (@SusanHanley) and I were working on…
You know that feeling where you’ve done something so many times and it’s worked and then one day it just doesn’t? Yeah, I just had one of those. I’m still a big fan of the PnP Modern Search Web Parts, just like I was last week or last year. To really make them sing in…
My frustration last week in my post Dear Microsoft: Determining Solution Usage in Your Tenant Shouldn’t Be Like This was driven by a need to understand where the PnP Modern Search Web Parts had been used in pages. Now that v4 is available and solid, I want to discuss upgrading the v3 Web Parts to…
You love the SharePoint Framework, so you build stuff with it. It’s the accepted development model, and it’s been around for years now. There’s no risk of falling behind or getting out of sync with the rest of the Microsoft 365 development world. You’re playing by the rules! Scenario One You’ve created some fantastic Web…
Somewhere between the classic Alerts functionality and Power Automate flows, we find the ability in Microsoft Lists to create rules for lists. Rules allow us to do some pretty basic – but VERY common things. Creating a rule for a list is fairly straightforward. In the toolbar at the top of the list view, click…
Thanks to eagle-eyed reader Markus Bütterhoff’s (@buetti) comment on my post showing how to Group By Content Type in Modern Lists and Libraries, I learned of some recent changes for Content Types in Microsoft (SharePoint) Lists and Document Libraries. I’m not sure when these rolled out, but it must have been in the last few weeks….
When we build apps (or applications before them), we often build different behaviors or capabilities based on the role of the current user. For example, when I ask for some time off, my manager can approve it, but I can’t. In a Power App, there are many different ways to implement role-based permissions. I’ve put…
This is a pretty quick one, but very useful, nonetheless. I had a lot of trouble finding a way to determine the number of days between two dates for a flow I was building. After a lot of Binglage, I found an article (Calculate the difference between dates in a Power Automate Flow) from Phil…
No matter how long I work with the Power Platform, I’m always running into things which feel like they should be simple, but simply aren’t. Recently, I needed to filter a SharePoint list as a data source which had a multi-select Person or Group column. It’s a simple idea, really. The list is one which…