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Retention policies in SharePoint help your organisation manage how long files and documents are kept and when they should be deleted. Think of it like this: some documents are important and need to be kept for a specific period (for example, financial reports or employee records), while others may only be useful for a short … read more…
When I was working with a client who wanted to share certain documents with external users, I created a separate SharePoint site dedicated solely to external users. Once the site was ready, the client asked me a great question: “How do we set up expiration for external access so that guest users don’t keep access forever?” … read more…
Recently, I worked with a client to create a SharePoint home page for them. Initially, everything worked as expected, but after a few days, team members reported that they could no longer view or edit the home page. When I checked, I realised that members had permission to modify the page, and one of them … read more…
Yesterday, one of my subscribers reached out with an interesting requirement: they needed to create a SharePoint list and its columns using Power Automate and have that list automatically show up in the SharePoint site’s left-hand navigation (the quick launch menu). In this tutorial, I will tell you how to add a SharePoint list link … read more…
Recently, I created an intranet portal for one of my clients. They had a specific requirement: when users open any SharePoint site home page, the browser tab shouldn’t just display the default Site Name – Home. Instead, they wanted it to show the Site Name followed by the Company Name as shown below. In this … read more…
One of my colleagues recently asked for help with a tricky scenario. He runs a webinar where participants register at different times, and every time a new participant signs up, he wants to send them the meeting link. However, he doesn’t want Outlook to continue emailing all the previously registered attendees repeatedly. Usually, if you … read more…
While working on an IT Help Desk product, we needed to get all items from a SharePoint list using Power Automate. The list has more than 10,000 items, and retrieving all of them takes around 38 seconds. To improve the speed, we decided to get only the items created between specific dates. In this tutorial, … read more…
Recently, after I published a post on how to create a Term in the Term Store using Power Automate, one of my clients reached out with another requirement. They liked the automation, but in their team organization, they don’t use Power Automate. Instead, they wanted a way for users to directly add new terms in … read more…
I was working on a document management system for a client where they used the Term Store in SharePoint to manage metadata. The Term Store is useful for keeping tags consistent, but sometimes not everyone has permission to add new terms. This created a problem when users wanted to add missing terms. After some research, … read more…
When I was working on a document management system for one of my clients, they had a particular request: they wanted to add their own custom HTML, CSS, and even a bit of JavaScript to their SharePoint Modern Page. Out of the box, SharePoint doesn’t give you a direct way to drop in custom code, … read more…
When working with a document management system in SharePoint, it is important to keep everything organized. Many times, people use different names for the same thing. For example, one person tags a file as HR, another as Human Resources, and someone else as People Department. This makes search results confusing and slows down work. The … read more…
Last week, one of my customers purchased my small flow “Create List With Different Types of Columns using Power Automate.” After using it, they came back with an additional request: they wanted to automatically add an indexed column whenever a new column is created in SharePoint. If you want to explore more, you can download … read more…
Recently, I tested one of our IT Help Desk solutions that we built using Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint. I wanted to see what happens when the SharePoint list grows beyond 10,000 records. In the past, I never created any manually indexed columns for this list. But this time, I enabled Automatic Indexing. Once … read more…
In SharePoint, the People column is used to assign tasks, show who is responsible, or add team members to a list or library. By default, it displays all users in our organization, which can sometimes be overwhelming and lead to confusion. To solve this, we can limit the People column to only show certain users … read more…
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