Category: SharePoint

SharePoint is a platform that evolved a lot in the past few years. It provides a simple and straightforward interface that allows you to do advanced operations quite efficiently. I write these articles with step-by-step tutorials to teach you how to build your sites in SharePoint. Once you understand these concepts, you will be able to, develop, and provide rich collaboration platforms with not a lot of work. These can give document version control, document collaboration, and even store organized data. If you’re a pro, I’m sure you can find something useful and learn something.

Power Automate: Multi-select columns in SharePoint

by Manuel GomesSeptember 28, 2021December 20, 20211

Power Automate and SharePoint work excellently, but I see many people with questions regarding how to fetch multi-select columns in SharePoint. Especially the “Person” columns …

by Manuel GomesSeptember 27, 2021January 9, 202235

Syncing is one of the most complex challenges in all platforms. We all suffered from issues where our files don’t sync appropriately on OneDrive, or …

by Manuel GomesSeptember 24, 2021December 1, 202216

Automating file management is an excellent way to save time, especially if you have many. There are many advantages to knowing when a file is …

by Manuel GomesSeptember 23, 2021September 21, 20210

One of the trickiest things is to keep data consistent, especially if it’s inserted by the users. Each person has their way of providing data, …

by Manuel GomesSeptember 22, 2021November 10, 20222

File metadata is boring but can be incredibly useful. The SharePoint “Get File Metadata” action enables you to get information like the file’s path, size, …

by Manuel GomesSeptember 21, 2021September 21, 20210

I got this question from a reader, and it’s an interesting one. “When an Excel file is created in a document library, import all its …

by Manuel GomesSeptember 2, 2021September 1, 20210

The average function draws a lot from Excel, where we can have one or more columns (or cells in Excel) and return the average of …

by Manuel GomesJune 8, 2021December 20, 20210

Power Automate has an amazing set of actions for SharePoint, but none is more versatile than the “Send an HTTP request to SharePoint” action. With …

by Manuel GomesJune 3, 2021June 3, 20210

The “hour function” is part of a suite of functions that deal with dates. It returns the part of the time; for example, 12:30 will …

by Manuel GomesJune 2, 2021December 20, 20212

SharePoint is an amazing place to store information, and lists are the most useful way to organize the information. With the release of Microsoft Lists, …