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The dynamic operation request to API 'sharepointonline' operation 'GetTable' failed with status code '429'. This may indicate invalid input parameters. Error response: { "statusCode": 429, "message": "Rate limit is exceeded. Try again in 22 seconds. Please see https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/logic-apps/handle-throttling-problems-429-errors for more details." } When you have too many API calls by the flow, the Power automate flow triggers this Error 429. But i have seen this error exception being thrown, even without say 600 API calls per connection per minute. When your list structure either has below use cases. 1. Multiple Update Item in the flow. 2. Calling other flows from the same flow. 3. Having branches in the flow, which are either creating or updating sharepoint list. Fix: There is no available fix for this apart form change in the design of the flows.  A user voiced was also raised for this but i see it as declined. https:...

  Use Case :  Move the attached files to a SharePoint library rather than saving them as a SharePoint list item attachment. Solution: A gain the simplest solution is to create a Power Automate flow which runs on items creation. Add the action "Get Attachments" This will take in Site Address, List Name and the ID of the recently created item. So the catch is to add this action just after the When an item is created or modified step. Then we need to add the Get Attachment Content action. This action is also straight forward, it again takes in your address list name, ID and a File Identifier. The File Identifier is nothing but the Id for the previous step. Also, as soon you add it, Apply to each will wrap it. Next step is to add Create file action. This is again straight forward, just provide the Address, Folder Path (basically the SharePoint library you wish to save your attachment.), File Name and the File content.  File content is the output of your previous step. And tha...

Scenario: User wants bulk operations like status change to multiple items in Power Apps. The data for this is saved in SharePoint online lists or Data verse. So first thing first, let just design a simple app. Our app will have a gallery on the screen, this gallery will be linked to a SharePoint online list. Then we will add checkbox field in the gallery and also put in few labels to show data values of the respective list. Next we need to go to the OnCheck property of this checkbox control. Here what we will do is create a collection and add the selected item on it. Code for this will look something like this Collect(collectionName, ThisItem) Similarly, we will now proceed to the OnUncheck property code for it will look something like  Remove(collectionName,ThisItem). So what we are trying to do in here is that on check of the checkbox we are adding the selected item from the gallery into your collection, named as collectionName in above code. Next we add two button on the screen,...

 Scenario: Trying to update a SharePoint list item using Send an HTTP request to Sharepoint action in Power Automate. This is an exception case, and i am writing it only to save someone's else time. Normally we can use Power Automate to GET, POST, PATCH & DELETE sharepoint list items. There are standard syntax, you need to follow to do it. The above title is an exception when your list name has a space when you create it. But when you delete that space later your Send HTTP request to SharePoint starts giving an error.  To be more clear i had a list called Master_Timesheet. And all i was doing was calling a flow from a Power App button and passing the listitem ID as parameter to the flow Something like this. FlowName.Run(ThisItem.ID) But to my surprise i was getting the below error. A type named 'SP.Data.Master_TimesheetListItem' could not be resolved by the model. When a model is available, each type name must resolve to a valid type. Initially i thought that i must hav...

 Scenario: Simple reset a date picker control. Issue, you can't use normal Reset() function to reset the datepicker control. Solution: Simple create a variable Set(varResetCD, True) and use this variable to update the reset property of DatePicker control. The below Reset() won't work in case of datepicker control We need to create a variable and use it at the Reset property of the datepicker control. Also, if you still see some text inside your date field there are two other places you need to check in one is the datepicker control advanced properties. In the above screenshot all you need to do is clear InputTextPlaceholder. And then select the control and check the DefaultDate property of the date.  This should be set to Today(), you can also change it to something like below If(varResetCD,Blank(),Today()) What this does is sets the control to blank if the variable you have declared above is true. 

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One of the most important feature in modern SharePoint lists and library is its ability to be customized by JSON formatting. There are two different methods to do so. 1. additionalRowClass 2. rowFormatter Below is the one liner defs for both these methods. additionalRowClass is used when you only wnat to concentrate on one column in the list or library. rowFormatter is used to customize the complete Row. And if you decide to act smart and use both of them together, any styling applied to additionalRowClass will be lost. Now we will use rowFormatter, and for it we will create elements using DIVs we will create a Main DIV and nest 3 DIVs inside it. Below is the complete JSON for it. We have also applied styling to the DIVs. {   "$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/view-formatting.schema.json",   "hideSelection": true,   "hideColumnHeader": true,   "rowFormatter": {     "elmType": "div",     ...