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Flexible Project Management: Adding Actions to a Task List

The content explains how to replicate Planner’s ‘Checklist’ feature in a SharePoint task list using a separate actions list and Power Apps form. It details steps to create the actions list, build and customize the Power Apps form, and link actions to tasks. Finally, it covers adding, displaying, and updating actions linked to tasks.

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Automation Data Project Management

Flexible Project Management : Automating an Email Digest of Tasks

This article explains how to set up a workflow in Power Automate to send task reminders from a SharePoint list to team members. It includes detailed steps for creating and customizing a flow that schedules reminders, generates an HTML table of tasks, and sends personalized emails, ensuring project tasks are managed effectively.

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Communities of Practice Intranets Social Learning

Essentials for Internal Communities of Practice

Communities of practice are essential for any organisation to grow its capabilities, respond quickly to opportunities and challenges in the market, and gain an engaged, productive, and satisfied workforce. Creating and growing such communities takes investment and skill.

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Automation Data Project Management

Flexible Project Management with SharePoint Lists and the Power Platform

When Microsoft’s Planner is insufficient and Project is too complex, this post outlines how to use SharePoint lists for task management. SharePoint offers flexibility with custom fields, quick setup, and integration with the Power Platform. The guide details creating task lists, assigning responsibilities, and improving task views, providing a middle ground between Planner and Project.

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Data

Mastering Visual Trends Analysis in Power BI

This post explains key methods for displaying changes over time in Power BI. It covers transforming date formats in Power Query, creating a date table, converting UNIX timestamps, and using visualizations like line graphs, column graphs, area charts, Gantt charts, and histograms. The post also provides steps for accurate running totals and highlights both DAX and simpler solutions.

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Automation Data Social Learning Software

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: A Look at Artificial Intelligence

As we delve inexorably into the inevitable world of AI we’re finding it has the potential to revolutionize our lives in countless ways, from automating tasks to pioneering scientific breakthroughs. With this power comes a great responsibility to ensure AI is developed and used ethically. In this blog post, we’ll explore the basics of AI, […]

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Data

Who hates Power BI URL Parameters?

I love ’em, me, until I need to extract a custom URL – especially if it’s to this, this, this, and this – to share with others. With a bit of DAX and button trickery, however, there’s a way to add a button to a page so once values are selected in a slicer, the […]

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Automation Data

Transform your data in PowerAutomate

Super-charge your automations in PowerAutomate by customising the data coming into it using Power BI’s query editor…

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Data Intranets Software

Power BI : Learn to build free Venn and Euler diagrams

Grouping datasets into overlapping circles can, in many cases, allow your audience to easily grasp relationships between them. Power BI comes a bit short in being able to deliver on this, with no out-of-the-box visualisations for Venn or Euler graphs – and the custom visualisations are lacking essential features or cost up to US$5,000 p/annum. […]

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Easy Route to Hybrid Search in Sharepoint

Bringing content from applications that aren’t indexed by Sharepoint search can be expensive, complex, and fraught with unknown variables. Follow this guidance to quickly populate your index with such external content without having to go down the Graph/Cognitive Search route… This post will clearly show you the steps to accomplish this: In the guidance that […]