Sending notifications to users when a SharePoint news item is posted is something which is commonly requested, both with clients and on the various tech forums which I frequent. It definitely makes sense, and there is a lot you can do, using Power Automate (aka. Microsoft Flow), to send notifications in a number of different
In this series of posts, I explain how to manage permissions on a SharePoint List Item using Microsoft Flow. Initially I needed to change the permission on an item just after it is created to only be visible to people based on column values in the item. The building the flow included lots of topics from using REST api, extracting information from a previous step and separating my flow into re-usable parts. This is Part 1 of the series.
SharePoint has a number of different field types that you can set, some of which, like Hyperlink fields, have two parts: a hyperlink; and a description. When editing through the SharePoint user interface, both parts of the field are displayed on the screen to make it clear what you are entering. Unfortunately the same cannot
Getting Responses from called Flows In the previous parts of this series we have built 1 main flow and two called flows. If a flow calls another flow it shows a success unless the called flow includes a response, even if the called flow fails. In this last post of this series we will add
In part 3 of this series we built a reusable flow to add contribute permission to one item for one person. Most examples found will give you the most common permission level ids. This post will walk through finding the roleDefId needed for any named permission level and will modify the HTTP request trigger to
In parts 1 and 2 we built a flow that broke inheritance on a list item and then gave a person contribute permission. Both of these functions are useful and we might want to use them again. Rather than rebuilding the REST api strings every time we need them, this post will look at how to
This post describes how to add contribute permission for a selected user id to a single item in a list using Microsoft Flow. The flow uses the REST API calls to change the permissions. The walk through uses a custom list with one columns added, Requester which is a Person column. In Part 1 of
Microsoft Flow has always struck me as having the potential to be the most powerful and useful component of the Office 365 suite, but has always come up just short with the functionality I’ve required. The post below outlines a custom flow I’ve recently created. Hopefully this is the first step of moving away from
Recently I was looking into the On-Premises gateway for Powerapps functionality and how we can send data to on-premise sql database. Here we will see, How to setup the On-Premises gateway. Create a new On-Premise gateway connection. Setting up a flow to send data to the On-Premises database. How to setup the On-Premises gateway The
Join Nick and Andy who will be catching up with the Microsoft Flow product team. There will be discussion around Microsoft Flow and the future strategy with SharePoint. Here’s a great write up of the show : Go with the Flow Other areas that will be discussed: What is the intended usage for flow, is
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