The (currently) best way to update SharePoint document metadata using Flow
Hi all Anyone new to Flow, who has come from a SharePoint Designer Workflow background, will automatically assume that Flow has out of the box support for not only uploading documents to a SharePoint...
View ArticleAdvanced PowerApps Awesomeness in Sydney
Send to Kindle Hiya First up, if you are not aware, the Digital Workplace Conference is about to land in Sydney. I strongly recommend you attend this conference. In my opinion there has never been a...
View ArticleHow My Daughter Won a PowerApps Contest With a Fidget Spinner
Hi all <TD: DR>My daughter, with no coding experience, won a contest put by the PowerApps team and we recorded a video on how she did it which you can find below</TD: DR> This little story...
View ArticleIncredible! Download a PowerApp that determines your IQ from a selfie…
Hiya Some of you might have seen my post where I explained how how my daughter, Ashlee (18), won a competition from Microsoft to develop a fidget spinner app. Well if you think that was impressive,...
View ArticleA lesser-known, but really important update to PowerApps
This week, the PowerApps team released a great update to PowerApps that should make any InfoPath person very happy. PowerApps now supports the use of rules that allow you to easily modify the behaviour...
View ArticleIt’s not a proxy, it’s a Floxy! A way to display SharePoint PDFs in PowerApps
Hiya I will say up-front that I used to be a security guy, so what I am about to share with you makes part of me feel dirty. With that said, I think this method is worth sharing because I get to call...
View ArticleThe (new current) best way to update SharePoint document metadata using Flow
Hi Some time back I documented an approach to updating document library metadata using Flow. To recap, the issue was that the “SharePoint : Create File” action provided no way to update library...
View ArticlePowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 1
Hi budding PowerApps and Flow users… One (current) issue affecting both PowerApps and Flow is that neither support Managed Metadata Columns properly. I have a method to get around this issue, but it...
View ArticlePowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 2
Hi and welcome to part 2 of my series on showcasing the utility of Flow. Specifically, we are updating managed metadata fields – which is something that neither PowerApps or Flow can do natively as I...
View ArticlePowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 3
Hi all Welcome to part 3 of my posts that are intended to teach people more about the intricacies of Flow, SharePoint Web Services and oAuth. The cover story for this journey was the issue that...
View ArticlePowerApps, Flow and Managed Metadata fields–part 4
Hi and welcome to the final post in this series of articles that examined how we can work around an unsupported function in PowerApps and Flow. Along the journey we have learnt about app principals,...
View ArticleFrom Rick Astley to Fidget Spinners: A slew of PowerApps and Flow video...
Hiya I have been recording various videos over time of some advanced PowerApps and Flow concepts/solutions. All of these are either workarounds for current limitations in PowerApps or Flow or work I...
View ArticleA Sample OpenAPI/Swagger file for PowerApps
Ever since I posted a video on how to use Flow to upload photos to SharePoint from PowerApps, I get a lot of requests for help with the most mysterious bit – the swagger/openAPI file… To save you all...
View ArticleOne solution to PowerApps login problems on Android phones
Tonight I had an issue where I was unable to log into one of my client’s PowerApps tenant using PowerApps from the app store. I tried with several android phones and all had the same issue (although...
View ArticleRush Blog: Managed metadata support for PowerApps and Flow just dropped!
Okay so I have never, ever done a rush blog post before, but a feature just dropped that I have been waiting for this for a long time and I think it will make a lot of people happy. Currently I am...
View ArticleHow to make a PowerApps activity feed via SharePoint search–Part 1
Background In a recent project, I developed a portal for the Project Management function of a global multinational. One of the key design principles we took into the engagement was not to simply make...
View ArticleHow to make a PowerApps activity feed via SharePoint search–Part 2
Background Hi and welcome to the second article that describes how to make a PowerApps-based activity feed based on SharePoint search results. Although I did this as part of a large real-world client...
View ArticleHow to make a PowerApps activity feed via SharePoint search–Part 3
Background Hi and welcome to the third article that describes how to make a PowerApps-based activity feed based on SharePoint search results. If Google’s search algorithm has landed you here for the...
View ArticleThree ways to convert HTML to PDF using Microsoft Flow
The ability to generate PDF’s as part of a business process is a common one – mainly driven by compliance. A common way to do this is to create a HTML file and then convert that to PDF. <TLDR>Go...
View ArticleSome seriously powerful (and free) PDF functionality in PowerApps and Flow
Hiya Pretty much every time I run a project kick-off meeting involving tools like SharePoint or PowerApps, I always ask the group the following question: “If you had <insert goal here>, how would...
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