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Warn users about loosing entered data when navigating to a different screen in PowerApps

One way to improve user experience, and increase adoption to a certain level, is to add “little” things that would help users. In this blog post, we’re going to create a popup that will warn users when they want to navigate to another screen, BUT they’ve already entered data. Let’s offer them the choice to “Leave” or “Stay”. Scenario I have an app for rewarding employees once they’re nominated by their colleagues.

Remove specific characters from values in PowerApps

Have you ever had the scenario where, you had values in SharePoint (or Dataverse) with a character, or the end of the value is not relevant for your app, and it should not be displayed? I did. In this first PowerPlatform blog post, we’ll get rid of the end of the value that’s after a specific character. And we’ll also include getting rid of the character since it won’t be relevant nor nice to see anymore!

Limit OneDrive For Business access to Security Groups

A new feature to use very carefully! OK, you’ve been warned now 😉 In this blog post, we’ll have a look at how we can limit access to OneDrive For Business, and the impact when enabling this feature. Scenario Let me lay out the environment first, so we understand the impact later. In this example, we’re going to have the following: 2x users (Adele & Debra) 1x Security Group called “SG-Consultants” Both users have OneDrive For Business provisioned, with sample content (private or shared with others) 1 of those users (Adele) will be a member of the Security Group we’ll be using, but not the other user (Debra)

View Private Channels in the SharePoint Admin Center

Finally! We can now see how many Private Channels a Microsoft Teams Team has, directly from the SharePoint Admin Center! As a reminder, when you create a Private Channel, it creates another SharePoint site with different permissions. Meaning a Team could have many other SharePoint sites that we couldn’t see, and therefore, do “things” that would have been regrettable! In this short and sweet post, we’ll see where to find the information about Private Channels in SharePoint Online.

Share files in SharePoint in review mode only

In case you haven’t seen, there’s a new feature when you share a document from SharePoint Online: Open in review mode only. In this blog post, we’re going to have a look at how it works, and what’s the experience from a reviewer perspective. How does it work? When you’re about to share a document, you’ll see the option in the popup. You must have allow editing checked, or the option will be greyed out.

Set default values for SharePoint list items

There are so many features in SharePoint (on-prem & online) that some may be overlooked. Lately, I was working on a PowerApps with Power Automate in the background, and I needed to set default values for some items’ fields, and surprisingly, my first thought was to set those values within the flow. But I have noticed a couple of things by doing it this way. First, that Power Automate was slow to set the value, and second, it was also adding a new version (i.

Create multiple list items with a CSV file using Invoke-PnPRestMethod

Did you know that there’s also a PnP PowerShell command that will use a REST request? Meaning we’ve got a different syntax, (sometimes) better performance, but the same results. In this post, we’ll create items in a SharePoint Online list using the Invoke-PnPSPRestMethod by importing a CSV file. Let’s go! 🚀 REST API If you’re not familiar with SharePoint REST API, have a look at the official documentation. CSV file Nothing specific in the .

Update specific list items in SharePoint with PowerShell

In this post, we’ll have a look at a specific cmdlet: Set-PnPListItem. We have a couple of interesting parameters (including the -Batch one!), depending on what we’re trying to do. If you used this cmdlet before, and particularly to update something without creating a new version of the file, we used the -SystemUpdate parameter which I’ve found great and really useful. Now we have new ones which are under -UpdateType: