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- Chatbots and Power Apps
Chatbots are becoming very popular on websites and in apps. Microsoft has a way to create chatbots using Power Virtual Agents (PVA). Now you can add your chatbot created with PVA directly in a Power App. I played around with this and here is what I found. Go to PVA and create your chatbot (https://web.powerva.microsoft.com). If you need assistance creating a chatbot, you can follow this handy tutorial from Microsoft. A little tip, if you want to present multiple choice options in a question in the chatbot, you will need to format the question a little differently so the options… Read more: Chatbots and Power Apps - Employee Directory in Power Apps
A common request for company Intranets is a searchable employee directory. All versions of SharePoint have a people search vertical. This is nice, but in SharePoint Online, it is difficult to customize the results page out of the box. SharePoint Online also uses Microsoft Graph to make the results relevant to the logged on user. It’s difficult to get a complete listing of employees because of this. Enter Power Apps. You can create a simple employee directory and easily customize the app to match your company’s branding. You can also embed the app on a SharePoint Online page. In my… Read more: Employee Directory in Power Apps - Sharing Link Reports
In SharePoint Online, Microsoft made it very easy to share documents and pages. You just click the share button, enter some names, and poof, the users receive an email with a link to said document or page. And since the default setting for sites is to allow everyone to share, the amount of sharing links can start to add up. There is a way to see the different sharing links on your site. You can go into each individual list or library’s permissions and view the sharing links. This can be tedious if you have a large site or many… Read more: Sharing Link Reports - Permissions
As a SharePoint admin, I am constantly asked by site owners “Who has access to my stuff?” In all versions of SharePoint, there is only so much you can glean from the out of the box permissions settings. This can be made more complicated when there are areas on a site that do not have the same permissions as the site. Document libraries and files with broken permissions make managing permissions very difficult. Now if you have access to a third party tool, you can run all kinds of access reports. But what if you don’t have any third party… Read more: Permissions - To Share or Not To Share
SharePoint is a great document sharing and collaboration platform. There is an easy way to share a document. But should you really use the “Share” option? When you use the sharing option, the permissions for that document become broken. When you add a user to the site or library, they will not have permissions to that document unless you go into the document’s permissions and add them. So how should you share a document? In the context menu (three vertical dots), there is a “Copy Link” option. You can send the document’s link through email or a message. There are… Read more: To Share or Not To Share