SharePoint Online allows you to customise a list forms using PowerApps. Creating a simple form is a piece of cake, but their are a few things you need to do when making a multipage form. Starting with a SharePoint list, choose the PowerApp option at the top of the list view. In PowerApps studio create a Screen for each section and then build your custom … Continue reading Create multipage SharePoint new item form with PowerApps
I’ve used the SharePoint Migration Tool successfully on numerous occasions but this week I had a very unusual issue. In the SharePoint Migration Tool log file from a failed migration we found this error: Scan File Failure: The parent folder was not migrated 0x0111000F Failed to Read the file: Could not retrieve file’s metadata 0x01310007 For some reason the files could not be read, it … Continue reading Azure Storage and SharePoint Migration Tool errors
I’ve collated a list of active Microsoft focused user groups in New Zealand. User Groups are a great way to meet people in the community, learn new things and start a career as a public speaker. These groups are free to attend! (let me know if I’ve missed your group and I’ll update this list) Auckland .NET User Group https://www.meetup.com/AKL-NET/ Auckland Azure User Group https://www.meetup.com/Auckland-Azure-Usergroup/ Auckland … Continue reading New Zealand Microsoft User Groups
I was talking to a client recently and they asked me who they should follow on social media to learn more about SharePoint and Office 365. It got me thinking, who is it that I follow that I’d recommend to others? I follow a large number of people and so it’s not easy to pick my favourites. I should also point out that it varies … Continue reading Five MVP’s to follow
Using SharePoint and Microsoft Flow, I built a system for sending emails to external people and then processing the replies, including extracting attachments and linking back to the original SharePoint List Item. Here’s the process: User creates a new List Item with the email address of an external person (can be internal also) Using Flow, send an email to the external person’s email address: Subject … Continue reading Microsoft Flow, linking email to SharePoint List items
Moving from file server based document storage to SharePoint Online opens a world of capability for users. Lower barriers to working remotely, better collaboration internally and externally, document management functionality, better compliance and many would argue better security. Before you begin Before you start the migration it is important to develop a plan. Is your infrastructure up to scratch? Do you have the licensing you … Continue reading SharePoint Migration File Share to Cloud
There are a number of ways to upload files to SharePoint, but every now and then I get asked to do something a bit different. In this case it was to migrate files from a database into SharePoint. The database had a file path reference with documents stored in a file structure on Windows file share. Success would see over 80,000 documents transferred into just … Continue reading Upload files to SharePoint Library Subfolders with PowerShell
