Thursday, June 11, 2020

Power Automate - Grant access to an item or folder: Add a SharePoint Group

In Power Automate, if trying to grant access to an item or a folder, and you try to use a SharePoint Group, it won't resolve and you'll get an error that the field is required.


But if you just Initialize a variable and assign it the name of the SharePoint Group:

And then use that variable instead:


You no longer get an error, and the group will get added with the access level specified when you run the flow!




Monday, June 8, 2020

Get-PnPListItem in a list with greater than 5000 items

If you need to grab all the items from a list with greater than 5000 items in SharePoint Online, you might get the following error:

The attempted operation is prohibited because it exceeds the list view threshold enforced by the administrator

To get around that, add a query with the scope of RecursiveAll to your query like so:

Connect-PnpOnline -Url 'https://vivity.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename' -Credentials (Get-Credential)
$query = "<View Scope='RecursiveAll'><RowLimit>5000</RowLimit></View>"
$items = Get-PnPListItem -List 'My List' -Query $query