I’ve been writing a new series of blog posts on the Lightning Tools site, as part of my Technical Evangelist role. It’s a detailed look at each of the built-in web parts available for modern SharePoint pages in SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2019. For example, today’s post was about date-related web parts: Events, Group Calendar,…
A couple weekends ago I presented my PowerApps Jumpstart session at SharePoint Saturday Cambridge, which was once again a terrific event! The theme this year was Britannia – celebrating Queen Boudicca’s Iceni army’s charge against the Roman Empire. That meant cool logos and competitions, as again this was run in conjunction with the SQL Saturday.…
This past Saturday (September 1) I had the great pleasure of presenting my new PowerApps Jumpstart session at SharePoint Saturday Stockholm. This was my first time in Sweden, and I’m really enjoying it! (I’m still here, staying for 6 days altogether.) The speaker dinner on Friday evening was at Aifur, a Viking-themed restaurant in Gamla…
I wrote a post over on the Flow Community Blog about one way to deal with the current limitation in Microsoft Flow that only allows a Flow to run for 30 days at the most. The basic idea I had was to check a scheduled date in a list on a recurring basis, and if…
I was recently reading Barbara Kingsolver’s book Animal Vegetable Miracle, which is essentially about knowing where your food comes from, and the value of eating locally. I do try as much as possible to eat (and drink) locally, especially as we travel to various regions of the country and the world. Did you know that…
Certainly the most successful post on my blog has been one I wrote in November 2016, about how to access and use the Content Type Hub in SharePoint Online. More popular than Wairere Falls Farm Cottage, better selling than Planner Notifications, and more controversial than In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. 😉…
This is a Flow I demonstrated at SharePoint Saturday San Diego a couple weeks ago in my introductory Flow session… I wanted to show off a couple of new features in a simple Flow, so I chose the Microsoft To-Do connector and the Outlook @mention trigger, both added in mid-December 2017. Yes, I love taking…
Southern California in mid-January… who doesn’t want that? And a day full of SharePoint learning on top of that – and beer with friends afterward… can’t be beat! We were looking for something to do during January that wasn’t too far away from northern California where we spent November and December, because we need to…
Super stoked to have been the first guest on the WitGirls podcast this week! This is a relatively new podcast (this was Episode #6) hosted by Lise Rasmussen and Christina Gibson out of Sweden. According to their website… There aren’t many podcasts by women in our genre and that is the reason I wanted to…
Just for fun… My 13-month-old granddaughter loves to listen to music and watch videos on our phones (though of course she’s only allowed limited “screen time”). But she’s too young yet to realize that if she touches the screen, YouTube stops or exits. So I was trying to think of something she could play with…
This was my first time at the European SharePoint Conference, as well as my first time in Ireland (aside from several hours at Dublin airport some years ago). I attended as a sponsor, part of the Lightning Tools booth team, and I was very impressed with the level of organization and the venues for this…
I wrote another guest article over on the AuroraBits blog, going into some detail on each of the current web parts (as of late September 2017 when I wrote it) for SharePoint Online Modern pages. Actually, there was so much material and detail that it turned into a two-part post, which I broke down by…
Ooh, the PowerApps team announced this week that they’ve added 33 new icons! I took a look through them in the Icons dropdown, and thought it might be useful to show the currently available icons and shapes all in one place… (you’ll probably want to zoom in on this a bit) I’m not sure exactly…
I was honored to be able to present a session on Microsoft Flow at SharePoint Saturday Cambridge this year, on September 9… I’d never been to Cambridge, and I was especially happy to be able to reunite with my Lightning Tools colleagues as well! The event is run in conjunction with a SQL Saturday –…
I wrote a guest blog post over on the Aurora Bits site, about the user experience in SharePoint Modern lists and libraries… By the way, while you’re on the Aurora Bits site, I recommend checking out their FlyView tool for SharePoint. It’s a very cool SharePoint navigation tool, giving you a dropdown/flyout navigation system, complete…
Where have the days gone? 