SharePoint lists & libraries: we all love ’em. With multiple views, they are like little apps. [Why the heck do lists have a brand and logo but libraries don’t? And why aren’t the two just considered simply variations on a concept by Microsoft?] Do you find yourself using both the modern & classic view settings?…
When we use SharePoint lists as data sources for Power BI, there are all sorts of tricks and gotchas. As with any rapidly evolving technology, some of the tricks we find on the InterWebs are helpful, some are out or date, and some are just plain wrong. Recently I ran into a confusing issue when…
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….