Custom Actionable Messages with Microsoft Flow – part 1 – Sending out the message

This is part 1 of the Custom Actionable Messages with Microsoft Flow series With Microsoft Flow, there are two ways of sending out-of-the-box Actionable Messages: Start an approval Send email with options Things I ran into by using these actions are: The comment boxes with the Start an approval action are optional and cannot be […]

Updating a multi-people field in SharePoint with Microsoft Flow

If you want to update an item/document metadata in SharePoint with Flow, the Update Item / Update File Properties action is your saviour. Or isn’t it? I stumbled upon a call for help on Twitter from Vlad Catrinescu (@vladcatrinescu) where he asked how to update a People field with multi-select option enabled. I went to create […]

Microsoft Flow: Get item from list with more than 12 lookup columns

When you are using Microsoft Flow and you want to retrieve an item from a SharePoint list which has more than 12 lookup columns, you’ll receive the following error: The query cannot be completed because the number of lookup columns it contains exceeds the lookup column threshold enforced by the administrator In this blogpost, I […]