The Highlighted Content Web Part and the News Web Part in SharePoint can be used to display news on a page. Both webparts serve different purposes and have distinct features. One particular difference is the display of author in News Webpart and display of editor in the Highlighted Content Web Part. The Highlighted Content Web Part displays editing details like editor and last updated date with the news information. Unfortunately there is no option to change it to the author name.

When using Power Automate action Send an Http request to SharePoint specially to send data in the body to a REST API call, for instance to create a news link from a SharePoint List Item, you might encounter issues if the body contains double quotes in the title or description. This blog post will walk you through the problem and provide solutions to handle double quotes in JSON strings. Problem Overview Using the Send an Http request to SharePoint action to create a news link can fail if the JSON body contains double quotes.

This post covers how to leverage SharePoint REST API to create and publish a news link from Power Automate using the Send an Http request to SharePoint action. Within a Power Automate flow follow the steps below to create and publish a news link details. Send an Http request to SharePoint action renamed to Get Page Details. Site Address : site url Method : GET Uri : /_api/web/lists/GetByTitle(‘Site%20Pages’)/items(10) Parse JSON renamed to Parse Page Details JSON Add the action Parse JSON and refer to the content from previous steps

This post covers how to leverage SharePoint REST API to get user details from Power Automate using the Send an Http request to SharePoint action. Within a Power Automate flow follow the steps below to retrieve a user details. Send an Http request to SharePoint action renamed to Get Page Author Details Site Address: https://test.sharepoint.com Method: GET URI: _api/Web/GetUserById(14) Here’s the output from the API: Here’s the output from the API:

This post covers how to leverage SharePoint REST API to get users from a SharePoint group from Power Automate using the Send an Http request to SharePoint action. In the example below a SharePoint Group has been defined for approvers of a particular process and needed to be retrieved to be assigned an approval task. Within a Power Automate flow follow the steps below to retrieve users from a SharePoint group.

Oversight of Sharing Information in SharePoint sites using PowerShell and CSOM, REST and PnP PowerShell Effective oversight of sharing links and sharing information are paramount to ensuring data security, compliance, and optimal collaboration experiences. As organisations migrate to M365 environments, they inherit powerful collaboration tools that facilitate seamless sharing of documents and resources. However, without proper governance, these capabilities can lead to unintended consequences such as data breaches, compliance violations, and loss of intellectual property.

This post outlines how to use Power Automate to update author and editor of a Page within SharePoint using the Send an Http request to SharePoint action. Within a Power Automate flow, follow the following steps Add Send an Http request to SharePoint renamed to Update Author Site Address: siteUrl Method: POST Uri : _api/web/lists/GetByTitle(‘Site%20Pages’)/items(1)/ValidateUpdateListItem() Headers : content-type: application/json;odata=verbose accept : application/json;odata=verbose Body : {"formValues":[{"FieldName":"Author","FieldValue":"[{'key':'@{body('Parse_JSON_Author_Details')?['d']?['LoginName']}'}]"},{"FieldName":"Editor","FieldValue":"[{'key':'body('Parse_JSON_Author_Details')?['d']?['LoginName']}']"}],"bNewDocumentUpdate":true,"checkInComment":null} example of body compiled: {"formValues":[{"FieldName":"Author","FieldValue":"[{'key':'i:0#.f|membership|Reshmee.Auckloo@contoso.co.uk'}]"},{"FieldName":"Editor","FieldValue":"[{'key':'i:0#.f|membership|Reshmee.Auckloo@contoso.co.uk'}]"}],"bNewDocumentUpdate":true,"checkInComment":null} By following these steps, you can update the author and editor fields in a SharePoint list item using Power Automate.

As part of the Copilot for M365 rollout , questions were raised on the /portals/Community and /portals/hub as both ‘Everyone Except External Users’ was granted access raising concerns on the content on the site. These are legacy sites and are currently inaccessible. Historically, these sites were accessible via the legacy SharePoint admin centre, however, they are not available through the modern SharePoint admin centre interface. Thanks to Gregory Zelfond’s blog post What are all these site collections in SharePoint?

There is limited space allocated to the tenant. To ensure business continuity and smooth ongoing operation, it is imperative to keep an eye on its usage and take relevant actions suited to the circumstances. Space calculation Total storage depends on number of licensed users 1 TB plus 10GB per license purchased Data storage The data using up space are made up of Files, Meetings within SharePoint - Teams sites Others service like Loop workspace and SharePoint Embedded are part of the storage but it has not been implemented OneDrive storage is not reflected and each user is allocated 1 TB by default.

Update A row action from Dataverse connector was not available to an older Power Automate.The requirement was to add ability to cancel an approval task created via action ‘Create Approval’ within 30 days as Power Automate flows timeout after 30 days. I noticed the action Update a Row in Selected Environment and decided to try it instead. Unfortunately it threw the forbidden error for no apparent reason with no obvious permissions to grant.