Information Handyman
This article is a must-read for anyone using SharePoint lists to manage tasks and actions. It guides you through transforming your raw data into insightful visualisations that can help you track team performance, identify resource bottlenecks, and stay on schedule.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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…
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…
If you have a need to embed an image with clickable sections within it across SharePoint (or any web content management system, for that matter), there is a reasonably easy way to accomplish this…
Imagine a future where we find ourselves without a written record of the past; a ‘digital dark age’. Because just as digital content is easy to create it is as easy to lose. So where we ruthlessly delete content that doesn’t get used, if we don’t ensure the right information gets stored for the future […]