Tag: SharePoint

Workaround to update SharePoint document metadata custom columns

Microsoft has been making great strides in improving PowerApps functionality over the past year.  In late 2017, the product team announced the ability to set values for Managed Metadata (aka Taxonomy) columns in PowerApps and Flow.  This is great if you are using managed metadata fields in a SharePoint List, but does not work for … Continue reading Workaround to update SharePoint document metadata custom columns

Sending Custom Emails and Mail Merge using Flow

Many of us have used mail merge at some point in our careers.  I was recently asked to help create a SharePoint-based mail merge, where a unique emails gets sent to clients when the status of the client changed in SharePoint.  Depending on a status value, a different email message with personalized greeting would bet … Continue reading Sending Custom Emails and Mail Merge using Flow

SharePoint PnP PowerShell Renaming

For those of you who haven't updated your SharePoint PnP PowerShell in the past couple of weeks, please note that the cmdlets have been renated.  They are now using *Verb-PnPNoun instead of the *Verb-SPONoun naming pattern. For the time being, all old cmdlets have aliases so that old scripts wont break.  However, new cmdlets may not … Continue reading SharePoint PnP PowerShell Renaming

The Agile Misconceptions

I’m on my way home from a great SharePoint Saturday event in Ottawa Canada, where I attended an amazing session by  on "Leading Practices for Planning and Implementing a SharePoint Environment".  His guidance around requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, technical roll-out, governance, and adoption was excellent.  However, when he was comparing waterfall to agile project management … Continue reading The Agile Misconceptions