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Importing Dates and Numbers from Excel file into SharePoint list with Power Automate
Importing Dates and Numbers from Excel file into SharePoint list with Power Automate Transferring data from Excel to SharePoint lists can encounter format issues, especially with datetime and number fields. This post covers solutions to some challenges particularly related to dates and numbers.
The flow is quite simple with an action to read contents from excel file and an action to create items into a sharepoint list.
Handling DateTime Fields When importing datetime data with the “List rows present in a table” action from the “Excel Online for Business” connector, you might encounter format related errors.
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Teamifying an Existing M365 Group with PowerShell
Teamifying an Existing M365 Group with PowerShell Within M365 , SharePoint and Teams together provides a rich collaboaration platform. When a team site is created from SharePoint admin centre, it is not associated with a Teams despite a M365 group is created in the background. To extend SharePoint collaboration features , there is a need to “teamify” an existing Microsoft 365 Group, essentially attaching a new Teams instance to it to allow use of channels and other apps.
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Handling Locked Office Files issue In Power Automate
Handling Locked Office Files issue In Power Automate Inspired by the workaround described by Pieter Veenstra System Updates in SharePoint from Power Automate using the ValidateUpdateListItem endpoint to help with the locked file issue, this post covers file version creation as well.
File Locked Issue File lock issues in Power Automate can occur due to:
The file being opened by a user. The file being updated by a Power Automate flow, which may take up to 6 minutes to release the lock.