Every organization who has implemented SharePoint must have used workflows to automate their business process. Microsoft provides various options for creating workflows, here we will check SharePoint Designer Workflow vs Microsoft Flow. There are different ways to create workflows in SharePoint like: Using Out of box workflow Using SharePoint designer workflow 2013 Using Visual Studio

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SharePoint Designer Workflow vs Microsoft Flow

This article will guide you through creating an approval process in a SharePoint List using Microsoft Flow. For this guide let’s imagine that your client has a requirement that every ticket (managed in a list) must be supervised and approved. Before reading this I recommend that you read how to create a Ticket Management System using SharePoint,

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How to create an approval process in SharePoint List using Microsoft Flow

Getting Responses from called Flows In the previous parts of this series we have built 1 main flow and two called flows. If a flow calls another flow it shows a success unless the called flow includes a response, even if the called flow fails. In this last post of this series we will add

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How to manage permissions on a SharePoint List Item using Microsoft Flow – Getting Responses from called Flows

In part 3 of this series we built a reusable flow to add contribute permission to one item for one person. Most examples found will give you the most common permission level ids. This post will walk through finding the roleDefId needed for any named permission level and will modify the HTTP request trigger to

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How to manage permissions on a SharePoint List Item using Microsoft Flow – Named Permission Levels

In parts 1 and 2 we built a flow that broke inheritance on a list item and then gave a person contribute permission. Both of these functions are useful and we might want to use them again. Rather than rebuilding the REST api strings every time we need them, this post will look at how to

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How to manage permissions on a SharePoint List Item using Microsoft Flow – Splitting a Flow into reusable parts

This post describes how to add contribute permission for a selected user id to a single item in a list using Microsoft Flow. The flow uses the REST API calls to change the permissions. The walk through uses a custom list with one columns added, Requester which is a Person column. In Part 1 of

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How to manage permissions on a SharePoint List Item using Microsoft Flow – Add Contribute permission

Microsoft Flow has always struck me as having the potential to be the most powerful and useful component of the Office 365 suite, but has always come up just short with the functionality I’ve required.  The post below outlines a custom flow I’ve recently created.  Hopefully this is the first step of moving away from

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How to set a document retention policy with Microsoft Flow in SharePoint Online