Microsoft Power Platform

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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Mover : Only Migration tool you will ever need to move your cloud content to SharePoint

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

One of the biggest conundrum of any organization planning to move to SharePoint is how to move all their documents stored in various different locations to efficiently to SharePoint. This becomes even more important if the company wants to use SharePoint as a document management system which is one of the strongest features of SharePoint. In past, you had to use a combination of third-party tools to move all the files to SharePoint if they are stored both in-network shared drives and SaaS platforms like Box or Google drive.  Microsoft understood the pressing need of having a consolidated migration tool to ease the process of migration and has acquired Mover which is now part of the O365 products and is now available in SharePoint Migration Manager. In this article, we will have a quick look at Migration Manager and then Mover and how we can use to migrate files from Google Drive to SharePoint.

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Form Configuration Editor: Lightweight and Built-in SharePoint List Form editor

[*SP] Lists provides an easy and robust way of storing and manipulating data in SharePoint.  When you set up a new custom list, you also get OOTB data entry forms to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations easily. However, most of the time we will need to customize those OOTB forms in order to make them more user-friendly for business users or implement some business rules to control the User interface. Previously, The only way to customize List forms was by using [*PAPPS] but now Microsoft has introduced a new built-in form editor to do some quick customizations without using Power Apps or any other external tool.  Today we will look at essentially what we can or can’t do by form editor feature and we will be using an Issue Tracker List scenario.

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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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AxioWorks SQList New Version

New version of AxioWorks SQList released (6.2.1.0)

A new version of AxioWorks SQList is out today!

It’s been a while since we released a new version, it was back in April 2020 and a lot has happened since! (and not much of it was good…)

Anyways, here we are, version 6.2.1.0 is out, let’s take a look at what comes with it.

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AxioWorks Sales Agent Opportunity 2021

Grow with Us : An Opportunity to Work with AxioWorks

We are building our Sales network and are actively looking for Sales Agents to join our network. Are you looking for a new challenge or additional products to add to your portfolio? Read on!

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SharePoint Syntex : A Collaboration between Knowledge worker and AI

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

Background

The use of SharePoint among knowledge workers has significantly increased over time which also increases the reliance of business users on it to make decisions. The content which is getting generated in SharePoint is only useful if business users can make sense of it and understand it in a timely manner and artificial intelligence is the key to improving the efficiency of understanding and processing unstructured content. This can only be achieved through a partnership between knowledge workers and artificial intelligence and in order to facilitate it Microsoft launched Project Cortex at last year’s ignite which focuses on bringing native AI in the world of SharePoint and SharePoint Syntex is the first product to emerge from Project Cortex.

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Power BI Reports from Microsoft Lists

Generate Power BI Charts from live MS Lists data

In our previous article on MS Lists, we did a detailed introduction including some of the great features which can help any business in implementing use cases like issue tracking and inventory management.

In this blog, we will use MS Lists to create an issue tracking solution using an out of the box template and then we will use SQList to synchronize data between MS Lists and SQL Server database. Finally, we will use Power BI to generate charts.

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Use Power Apps AI Builder to extract data from invoices and store them in SharePoint

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

Introduction

Organizations all over the world are trying to find new ways of automating their business processes in order to reduce redundancies, minimize manual data entry and human error. Artificial intelligence plays a significant role when it comes to improving the business process by taking automation to the next level where the process is not only automated but smart and self-sufficient as well.

Microsoft Power Automate provides businesses the capability to automate their business processes easily using their suite of low-code/no-code solutions in Power Platform and now they released a new tool in order to provide them the ability to add artificial intelligence in the form of AI Builder. In this article, we will take a look at AI Builder and the different types of models available for various purposes. We will then create a Form processing model that will extract the form data and then save it in a SharePoint List.

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