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MS List Templates bundled with Power Automate Flow

by Danish Ali Detho | O365 & Power Platform Solution Architect///

Microsoft Lists previously known as SharePoint Lists is the go-to option for maintaining and storing data in the world of O365 and its usage has grown even more ever since it has been integrated into MS Teams. MS Lists has become extremely easy to set up thanks to the introduction of features like import from CSV which lets you create a list from a CSV file and Built-in/custom List templates which lets you create a list using a predefined template. Microsoft has made MS Lists even more powerful by adding built-in power automate flows to some of the List Templates covering some of the most common scenarios associated with the out-of-the-box scenario-driven templates. In this blog, we will take a look at the List templates which come bundled with Flows and how to find them in Power Automate Portal.

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Bring Clarity to your SharePoint with MS Clarity

Introduction

There has been an exponential growth in SharePoint usage over the past few decades due to its vast set of capabilities to fulfill the most challenging business requirements especially transformation towards the modern workplace. One of the primary milestones on the road to the modern workplace is setting up an Intranet Portal which servers a one-stop-shop for information and communication and that’s where SharePoint shines the brightest. However, soon site owners realize the need for understanding how their portal sites are being used or not used and which features are the most popular among the users. One of the key ingredients of improving user experience is to gather insights on the site user behaviours. In order to facilitate this, Microsoft has released a new free-to-use tool called Clarity that comes with some innovative user analytics features to understand how site users are using the sites in real-time in order to help site managers improve their site experiences by better understanding site visitor behaviour.  In this article, we will take an in-depth look at Microsoft Clarity, what it brings to the site, and user analytics table and how it can be integrated in the SharePoint site.

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MS Lists has finally landed in MS Teams

During this Pandemic era, working remotely has significantly increased throughout the world and so is the usage of tools to facilitate collaboration and communication. One such tool is Microsoft Teams which now has 115 million daily active users. That’s a more than 50 percent rise from the 75 million that Microsoft reported almost six months ago. MS Teams has become a preferred tool of communication for companies using Microsoft stack which is why it makes perfect sense to improve its usage for collaboration. SharePoint Lists has been widely used for maintaining and storing data in SharePoint and with the recent launch of Microsoft Lists the usage has grown significantly as well.

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