In my previous post I was describing a solution to provision SharePoint lists dynamically and also to set their permissions. However, I want to share as well the solution that will let you to create list items using XML data.
In this blog post I would like to share with you a cool solution I have recently built for my customer, that allows dynamic creation of lists based on existing templates, together with setting all needed metadata and permissions.
The rating control in Adaptive Cards was on a roadmap. Long time ago. However, no updates were published and still no such control is available oob. Despite that, it is still possible to build a star rating, maybe not the perfect one, but working one for sure.
I have faced to day a very bizarre situation when I was trying to share an element within a SharePoint Online library, with a user who didn’t have access to the site at all. After the element was shared, user was getting access denied unless was added to “Members” permission group.
In Adaptive Cards there are multiple ways to show and hide content depending on other content or conditions, or even user interaction. But despite that most of them is available since the version 1.2 (so quite early) it requires a bit of knowledge how to actually implement them.
Recently I faced an odd situation, that user was complaining that they have access denied to the site, even though when I was checking their permissions, SharePoint was displaying, that they do have “Contribute” access level granted.
This post was inspired by a situation I faced at one of my customers. I was migrating SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint Online and in one site customer had many lists, where users were able to create items. Every time someone created or updated an item, SharePoint Designer workflow was sending them confirmation e-mail. Case was, that the lists were using the same workflow simply replicated per list.
In SharePoint Online, whenever you create a library and turn on “Require check-out” before editing documents option or not, users are able to open files for collaboration in browsers or in their local Office clients. When they do that, the file is getting locked from access that could lead to its metadata changes. If you create Power Automate flow which purpose is to update file’s metadata or approval status it will end up with failure when trying to do so.
This functionality was first released in July 2019. It has a huge potential – it allows you to create Adaptive Card and then put inside placeholders, that will be replaced as the card is being generated with the actual data. Thanks to it you don’t need to hardcode any values inside a card, you make more dynamic content. And save time.
It took me a little more time than I was expecting, but here it is! The post you are now reading is the last part of the 4-parts series of posts dedicated to Microsoft Adaptive Cards. Information in this post is valid for the September 2019. Because this technology is continuously changing, the knowledge from this post may in some parts get outdated, however I will do my best to update it accordingly.