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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Create a Power Virtual Agent and integrate it with a SharePoint list

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

Introduction

Virtual agents and bots have become an essential part of customer support in every business. It provides the fastest way to provide the information a customer is looking for without waiting for a customer support agent or searching through a website. They can cover large no of use-case scenarios including providing product information, helping with flight/hotel bookings, or tracking orders.
Today we will take a look at how easy it is to create a Power Virtual Agent and integrate it with a SharePoint list using PowerAutomate Flow.

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SharePoint lists to PowerBI

Power BI Master/Detail Report from live SharePoint data

In the real-world, reporting often includes master/detail scenario in which a master list item is selected in order to get more details about the entity. In SharePoint, master data will be stored in a list that contains a lookup column of detail list/s, and getting data from multiple lists would require multiple data sources and then modelling their relationships in Power BI. In this blog, I will show you how easy it is to achieve a master-detail scenario on live data coming from SharePoint lists using AxioWorks SQList. We will start off by looking at the lists which we are going to use in this scenario and followed by how we can use SQList to synchronise data between SharePoint Lists and SQL Server database and to finish things off, we will look at how to generate a report which shows master data in one table and details in the other based on a selection.

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Announcing SQList v3.5 with SQL Azure Support


Now also supports SQL Azure and SharePoint Online in Office365!
 

We are pleased to announce version 3.5 of our SQList product, a lightweight Windows Service that can be installed anywhere and will replicate SharePoint lists, libraries and files from SharePoint (Online and OnPremise) to a normalised set of SQL Server tables that are built dynamically.

 

Features include:
 

  • Support for SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013 and SharePoint Online in Office365
  • Exports all the lists and libraries in a SharePoint site as a set of normalised tables to any SQL Server database;
  • Selective replication: precisely control the lists and files you wish to replicate;
  • Parallel list sychronisation: replicate multiple sites and lists in parallel for enchanced performance;
  • Continuously updates the target SQL tables (data and structure) as your SharePoint site changes, every few seconds, or on a schedule you define;
  • Builds an indexed SQL table for each list or library on the fly;
  • Exports attachments and documents, as well as list data, and stores them as binary objects in the target SQL database
  • Microsoft Cloud and Hybrid friendly! Push On-Prem or Office365 SharePoint data into in house SQL Server Databases or SQL Azure. Think of the possibilities!
  • Runs as a lightweight Windows service that can be hosted on almost any Windows server or desktop PC;
  • Leverage the low cost, rapid assembly and advanced UI, workflow, document management, collaboration features and access control of SharePoint to manage content, data, and documents for your application
  • Additional performance enhancements, UI tuning, caching and bug fixes in v3.5 of SQList
     

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