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  • The Painful Process of Using Custom Values for OneNote Power Automate References

    I didn’t realize how painful this process would be until I embarked upon it, and so, Dear Reader, I’m looking to combine the resources that helped me into one place to help you if you are to find yourself in a similar scenario. The Use Case I was recently given a scenario where, as an…

    March 15, 2023
  • Utilizing the Contents of a SharePoint Image Column Elsewhere

    So I recently met with someone who had a conundrum. They had a SharePoint list with an Image type column, relatively new-ish, and they wanted to post the contents of this column to Teams on a regular cadence, along with other text column content. They had tried every dynamic content option related to the Image…

    February 27, 2023
  • Connections in Power Automate (and How to Take Control of Them)

    Do you have a flow running, proud as can be, except… the emails it sends out says they are from you? Did you get help on a flow and now it says that the SharePoint library is being updated by your coworker? All of this is due to *~*connections*~* in Power Automate. I’m going to…

    February 23, 2023
  • Approvals Using SharePoint Groups

    At my office, we have a lot of documents that undergo an annual review process. I was tasked pretty early on in my time here to help move this process from an Access database into the cloud. I could go on and on about the intricacies of what we set up, but I wanted to…

    February 15, 2023
  • Calling Multiple APIs in One Power BI Report (And All the Work-Arounds That Required)

    So, this one was a lot more difficult than it should have been. It started with a plea for help on Twitter and a really helpful first blog post (created for me, so honored!) from Andy O’Donnell here. (He’s super nice, follow him on Twitter too!) Andy got me going, which I am SO grateful…

    February 2, 2023
  • Frankenstein’s Monster Error Handling for Power Automate Cloud Flows

    Be warned now – the content in this post is not 100% from my own brain and genius. In fact, it is cobbled together from three different geniuses who were kind enough to post their own methods for error handling in Power Automate over the years. I’ve judiciously bookmarked those posts, just waiting for when…

    January 26, 2023
  • How To Create a Name Pronunciation Database Using the Power Platform (now with samples links!)

    The Problem and Requirements I work at a medical research institute that is incredibly diverse. We have scientists from all over the globe, which can lead to some frustration on everyone’s part when it comes to the diverse names that these employees have. To be clear – it’s not just an issue of names that…

    September 30, 2022
  • Tracking Your Productivity using Outlook Categories and Power BI (Desktop)

    Basic Category Visualization Adding Value Add vs Non Value Add Comparison NEW: Tracking Longitudinal Growth Over Time Our client had an additional ask – how do we see in one visual how someone is performing in the categories over a span of time? Here are the steps I walked through to create my end visual:…

    June 12, 2022
  • How To: Display Your M365 Group in Outlook (if you can’t find it)

    If you’ve spent much time with the Microsoft 365 eco-system, then you know as well as I do that there are countless ways to create new M365 groups. Everyone has their own preferences, certainly, and there isn’t really a need to pick only one method. What gets created and set-up as a result of creating…

    February 24, 2021
  • On Change, Growth, 2020, and Other Ramblings

    It’s commonplace to ask someone, “How’s it going?” or some variation when greeting them, even in our “new normal” (isn’t it just “regular normal” by now?) way of doing it virtually in 2020. More often than not, these days, I sigh heavily and say, “It’s complicated” or “Who knows?”. I’m not trying to be flippant…

    December 11, 2020
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