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Project Management Automation

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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Project Management Automation Data

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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Project Management Automation Data

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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Software Automation Data Social Learning

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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Automation Data Software

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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Intranets Automation Classification Data

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 […]

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Automation Classification Data Intranets

Sharepoint library settings – quickly go from default to awesome

The out of the box list settings in Sharepoint are simple and easy to get your head around. Here are some basic configuration settings that will bring out the very best Sharepoint has to offer. So head to your list, and add these in…

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Automation Classification EDRMS and ECM Intranets

Saving SharePoint Document Library/List Settings as a Template

Have you ever spent 20-minutes setting up a document library in SharePoint with multiple views, a folder structure, default column values, some custom columns, content types, and perhaps some default content, then struggled to copy the settings to another library? Fear not, brave SharePoint Site Owner, there’s a simple and sometimes hidden route to awesome…

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Automation Software

PowerAutomate: Copy/Paste switch conditions

I was delighted to see the ‘Copy to/Paste from clipboard’ feature introduced some months ago; however I could never seem to get it working from one switch condition to another. After a bit of research, I found a way to do it…